Of course, these drag cars need a bit more TLC before a long trip compared to your average commuter car. For most this meant topping-off gas, swapping to street tires, and loading up their trailers.

ANNE HAS MORE. HOT ROD DRAG WEEK WILL BE PASSING THROUGH THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY TWICE THIS WEEK. TODAY IS A SHORTER TRIP FOR THE RACERS AND THEY WILL START AT THE MARYLAND INTERNATIONAL RACEWAY AND ...

Discover HOT ROD’s Top 10 Cars of 2025—our third year reviving this iconic list. See the trendsetting builds, top builders, and innovations shaping car culture. The HOT ROD staff had a busy 2025, to ...

I encountered Dunphy’s Viper and 411 other cars like it (I’m using a broad definition of “like”) at HOT ROD Drag Week, an annual event that more or less started as a way to get people to shut up about ...

Hot rods have left an indelible mark on automotive history, evolving from post-war curiosities into enduring symbols of creativity and freedom. Their journey from the fringes of the automotive world ...

HOT ROD Drag Week 2025 once again put the toughest street cars in the country to the test. Over five days and more than 600 miles, racers had to prove they could drive their cars on the street and ...

If you can name a make and model of a car, odds are you could find it in the Memorial Coliseum parking lot Wednesday as part of the 31st annual Hot Rod Power Tour. “To put it simply, it’s car Nirvana, ...

Brian is a published author who has been writing professionally for a decade in politics and entertainment, but found his calling covering the automotive industry. His love of cars started at an early ...

As the name implies, Pro Street evolved from both the drag- and street-racing scenes. Its direct predecessors were the street freaks of the Seventies, American cars modified with drag parts for ...

Hosts Brian Lohnes, David Freiburger, and John McGann discuss Drag Week, Street Outlaws, No Prep Kings, and leaf-blower superchargers with Jeff Lutz. The HOT ROD Pod continues in its second week of ...

The 2025 Shiny Rust Hot Rod show took place over the weekend at the Oakland Expo Center in Waterford, Michigan. It focused on classic cars, and shiny or rusty, big or small, they had them all on ...