When the practice of customizing cars took off in the 1940s and ’50s, a common objective was to modify lower-priced cars to look like more expensive ones. You’d customize a Ford to look more like a Mercury, or alter your Chevy to look like a
As a teenager in the ’90s, David Levin was smitten by a 1968 Camaro at a car show, especially after the owner gave him a ride. That led him to buying a ’73 Camaro a few years later. “I spent every day tinkering with the
Cliff Horn grew up in a hot rodding family and fondly remembers riding to shows and swap meets with his dad, Patrick, in a ’31 Chevy coupe, a ’50 Olds 88, and other vintage rides. In the 1980s, Cliff went the young guy’s route with
While the practice of personalizing vehicles most certainly dates back the earliest days of production cars, the concept of automotive customizing as we know it in the realm of hot rodding was likely born in the late 1930s. The fat-fendered, Art Deco-inspired cars that began
Many readers may see the rendering of the Goodguys 2027 Grand Prize Giveaway 1966 Chevelle and think that, visually, the car is destined to be a relatively simple muscle machine with a few minor metal mods. And in some ways, they’d be correct. The talented
Some classic combinations are just hard to beat. And at the inaugural BASF Legends of Hot Rodding event this past weekend, the timeless appeal of a beautifully executed and detailed Deuce highboy roadster with a supercharged Ardun-head Flathead V8 proved to be a winning combination,
Goodguys stormed Nashville, Tennessee on Thursday as a swarm of angry hot rods hit the highways and back roads around town for the 2026 Tanks, Inc. Hot Rod of the Year Reliability Run! It was a fantastic prelude to the inaugural Legends of Hot Rodding
There’s no question American automotive design in the late-1950s was heavily influenced by the jet aviation age and burgeoning space race. This was evident in the stabilizer-style rear fins, jet-like taillights, and rocket-shaped accoutrements found on so many of the wild and flamboyant cars to
If you have a 1959 Suburban on your Cool-But-Less-Common vehicle bingo card, you’ll love Terry Rose’s version of Chevy’s workhorse full-size utility hauler from the pre-SUV era. Suburbans of the 1950s combined station wagon space and work-truck guts with little thought to creature comfort or
There’s no denying the popularity of vintage trucks these days with their ability to be built in a wide range of contemporary styles, from highly modified ground-scraping restomods to lifted 4x4s with long-travel shocks and the latest drivetrain technology. But old trucks also seem to
