Steve's first car was a '67 El Camino, was featured in HOT ROD's October 1996 issue. The car was finished years before he opened Pure Vision. It was built at home on a young man's budget.

In the Summer 2025 issue of HOT ROD, we celebrated home-built cars—built not bought, as some would say—and that is a large part of HOT ROD’s legacy. Since the first issue, our mantra has ...

There are the home-built hot rods, like mine, also customs, factory-type cars and hot rods that are sold in kits, and of course the beautiful restored cars and antiques.

More than A year after the great hot rod shop raids of 2004 ( The Great Boyd Coddington Raid! Nov. 8, 2004), registering your home-built hot rod or C ...

RICHARD C. GROSS It took three years of weekends, but David Faubion finally has the car of his dreams It could be that, when it comes to building hot rods, it's the old guys who have all the fun ...

Most were in their 50s and 60s, sometimes paying $100,000 or more for a professionally built hot rod. ... Home Depot caught in the crosshairs of L.A. immigrations raids. June 9, 2025.

For Craig May, 68, of Vaughnsville, it meant teaming up with friend Dana Sterling to build a hot rod. All the parts they needed had been tucked away, untouched, for 50 years.

Gordon Tronson was lying in bed starting at the ceiling when the idea to build his Double Trouble hot rod -- a bright blue, dual-engined 1927 Model T Roadster -- came to him. "It started as an ...

In 1996, the team decided to bring some of that hot rod goodness down to the Ranger. If greenlit, the SVT V8 Ranger could have gone on sale in 1998, selling as many as 5,000 units a year.

If you aren't familiar with the Grassroots Motorsports $2,000 Challenge Presented By Tire Rack and Powered By AutoBidMaster, you're missing out.With an all-in build budget of just $2,000 hot ...

Blackie Gejeian, who was a major part of the California hot rod, show car and drag racing scene from its very inception, died Sept. 2 at the age of 90. Gejeian grew up on his family’s farm ...