What defines a street car? Or even a race car, for that matter? During our HOT ROD Drag Week those lines are often more than a bit blurry. For a car to survive Drag Week, it must race all out for five ...

234 miles is a long drive in any car, and, in the faster Drag Week cars, it’s more than a bit daunting. The highway drive from track to track is one of the biggest challenges of Drag Week. You beat ...

This year, Hearst Magazines announces the mighty HOT ROD Power Tour in June and the highly competitive HOT ROD Drag Week in ...

The National Hot Rod Association has a straightforward rule for street-legal production cars running at sanctioned drag ...

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 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 ...

The Corvette ZR1X has turned quarter-mile bragging rights into a regulatory headache, with performance so extreme that it collides head-on with long-standing National Hot Rod Association safety ...

RISING SUN — Hot Rod Drag Week 2025 will make an appearance at Cecil County Dragway Sept. 18 This is the annual celebration hosted by Hot Rod Magazine and presented by Gear Vendors Overdrive. Cecil ...

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, ...

The NHRA California Hot Rod Reunion opened its three-day run on Friday at Famoso Dragstrip in impressive fashion with the quickest eight qualifiers in Nostalgia Funny Car history. Shane Westerfield, ...

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 ...

Hot rods were once a huge part of American youth culture, so much so that hot rodders developed their own language. Here are the classic terms you should know.