While many enthusiasts reminisce about a “golden era” of hot rodding in the past – oftentimes referring to a time roughly between the 1950s and 1970s – there’s a strong argument to be made that the modern era has as much glimmer as any before.
In the old car and truck world, it’s quite common to start one upgrade on your ride only to have it lead right into another project, then another, and one more. Snowballing is the term. You plan to install drop spindles one afternoon and the
It was 1976 when Les Sustak hopped in his ’69 Camaro, picked up a buddy, and drove more than 300 miles from his home in Ontario, Canada, to suburban Chicago for one reason: Buy a blower. “It was a kit from Gary Dyer’s machine shop,” says
The 2026 Goodguys event season will be kicking off by the time you read this, and with it comes an all-new season of cone-dodging, corner-carving, tire-punishing track action with the Goodguys AutoCross Series. For nearly two decades, the Goodguys AutoCross Series has brought fast-paced action,
Every vehicle on the road is equipped with a sprung suspension of some sort, whether it has old-school leaf springs, coil springs, coil-over shocks, or even torsion bars engineered to absorb bumps and road variations, support the weight of the vehicle, and to keep the
Foam, glue, fabric, hog rings, and sewing machines. For decades, those were the primary resources used by automotive trimmers to create hot rod and custom car interiors. The industry has seen a significant change in the past decade or more, though. Emerging technologies, from CAD
When you trace hot rodding through its early days, brake performance was often a secondary thought compared to speed and appearance. In fact, the brakes were almost more of an afterthought, a necessity of course, but not a huge priority. Just look through any vintage
If you wanted improved braking capabilities “back in the day,” it likely involved a scavenger visit to a local junkyard to search out a set of discs from a Corvette or other disc brake car and maybe score some larger rear drums from a heavy-duty
Hot rods, customs, street machines, resto-mods, and pro-tourers – building them ultimately requires a certain amount of fabrication. If the mods or upgrades include brakes, they’ll typically need new, custom-bent hard brake lines. For those with little experience, hard line bending can seem intimidating, but there’s
The crew at Tin Man's Garage work metal like artists, sometimes repurposing old pieces into new, better fitting components. In this case, Brian Limberg of TMG provided the details on turning a vintage set of headlight buckets into custom speaker pods on a project. Follow
