There are few fabricators in the world who are as skilled and talented as Scott Sullivan. He may be one of the most underrated car builders of our time. He doesn’t receive the fame and notoriety of the TV show car builders, and he doesn’t crank out a

Like most automotive movements or trends, it’s difficult to identify exactly when Pro Street started. Nor does it really matter, if you think about it—trying to define what the first Pro Street car was is an exercise in futility, because it depends s

If you work long enough in this business, you think you’ve seen it all—then you’re proved wrong. Such is the case with this pro street 1963 split-window Corvette. The fire-breathing, tire-smoking ride you see here was never meant to be driven, or eve

Merely uttering the phrase Pro Street conjures up thoughts of the flamboyant show cars of the ’80s, but the Pro Street look actually goes back to the 1970s, when hot rodders began adopting NHRA Pro Stock suspension modifications in their street cars

Excess—it’s a word we hear frequently in reference to the 1980s. Hot rodders were ready for some of that after slogging through the comparatively bleak ’70s. The factory muscle car era had come to an abrupt halt in 1973 for a combination of reasons i

Never one to mince words, pro car-builder Steve Strope says of the Pro Street look, “Everything just looks better with Mickey Thompsons and ’tubs.” He’s obviously a fan. Steve recalls many happy days at various iterations of the Car Craft Street Mach

Soichiro Honda apparently coined the phrase "Racing improves the breed," and this was never more evident than when we parked the Dos Palmas Machine Spl. alongside the Mooneyes dragster at the Mooneyes New Year’s Party. Though separated by little more

For the last thirty years, we’ve thrown HOT ROD Power Tour parties across the country, but it’s been almost that long since we’ve had a cruise on the West Coast. That all changed this past winter when thousands of enthusiasts and fans put a pause on

There are trends that fade away into obscurity and then there are trends that transcend time. The Pro Street movement is one that will always exist—born in the ’70s, it thrived in the ’80s, and was brought to the dragstrips en masse in the ’90s. Toda

What do you do to follow up an award-winning Pro Street 1969 Camaro and 1956 Chevy C10 pickup? Bradley Gray decided that his next move was to build a Funny Car for the street, and his 1970 Chevy Nova Funny Car shows us what lies beyond Pro Street. Co

What can you say about Rick Dobbertin’s J2000 that hasn’t already been said? Some people call it the pinnacle of Pro Street, some call it the car that put a stake in the heart in the Pro Street movement. Maybe those opinions are one and the same. Ric

Let’s address the major issue right away. For the first time in 76 years, HOT ROD will no longer print a monthly magazine. We have adopted a quarterly print schedule. It pains me very much to say that. This move was tough news to me but was something

❱Since its initial build in 2007, Project T-top Coupe’s Paxton Novi 2000 supercharged, 350ci small-block Ford engine has been electronically fuel injected and operated by a then state-of-the-art, stand-alone engine-control unit and the tuning wizardr

There are a lot of records and milestones in recorded drag racing history, and one that sticks out is an impressive run by a hotshot Top Fuel driver in the early 1960s. Don Prudhomme, a kid from Southern California, captured a stellar 81 round wins a

❱Hot-rodding is a game of trying to figure out how to get from idea A to result B. Having a vision of what you want is the easy part; figuring out how to make it happen is the challenge—but it’s also the biggest reward when you pull it off. Mark McDo

Presented By ❱Jim McFarland, the multitalented, multifaceted Texan who enjoyed several careers in the automotive performance industry, passed away in October 2023 at the age of 88. I had the privilege of working with him off and on since my Petersen

“The New Mustang” that Randy Lorentzen photographed for this cover—shot in Ford’s Dearborn studio—was “the real thing”: a production version of the new-for-2005, S197-generation pony car. Senior Editor Matt King “dished the inside dirt” on the GT ove

❱It’s safe to say that performance enthusiasts have embraced electronic fuel injection. That’s not to say that carburetors can’t do the job, but Detroit hasn’t rolled a new car off the assembly line with a carburetor in almost 40 years. Since then, w

The Corvette Racing team has a long and storied history at Road America, the beautiful Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, circuit, including eight class wins in the modern factory program era. However, a complete repaving of the track’s surface following the 2

Photos: The Author & Dylan Robertson Hot-rodders aren’t bound by phrases like “you can’t do that” or “that doesn’t seem possible.” They are creative, and this creativity leads to some very cool builds. Maybe you really dig the supercar-like performan

❱Finding an off-the-shelf exhaust system for your current hot rod project can be, well, problematic. The issue is that your new exhaust system must deal with a lot of variables, from engine location to header choice, and to make it more challenging,

When you’re a teenager and the police know you by name, it’s not usually because of your volunteer work or class-topping GPA. Not at all. That was especially true for Jeff Kainz when he was behind the wheel of his 1975 Camaro. In the ’80s, while crui

If you’ve watched any movie over the last 20 years with any automotive action, you’ve probably witnessed the handiwork of Dennis McCarthy. With eight Fast & Furious movies to his credit, as well as Hobbs & Shaw, The Green Hornet, Death Race, Day Shif

One of the stars of the 2023 Grand National Roadster Show in Pomona, California, was the stunning 1969 Camaro belonging to Phoenix resident Michael Shields. The story began at SEMA 2019 when Shields was inspired by a Camaro unveiling and decided to c

Email us at hotrod@hotrod.com Though hot rodders had been racing on the dry lakes and salt flats prior to 1949, the first official Bonneville National Speed Trial at the Bonneville Salt Flats happened in August 1949. It was a collaboration between HO