Hot Rod Magazine - February 2023

In this issue

Track Warrior Truck
This Pro Touring GMC Now Hauls Something Else.

Swapping Solutions
Fitting A 5.0 Coyote Into a Fox-Body Made Easier.

Crazy Godzilla
Ford 7.3L Swapped Into a Fox-Body Mustang.

Stroker Power
A Shot of Nitrous Wakes Up This 383ci Small-Block..

THE HOT ROD ARCHIVES

WHERE IT ALL BEGAN

3 mins

Chevord

While he was covering the 1955 Bonneville National Speed Trials, Petersen Publishing photographer Bob D'Olivo ran across Gary Guinn's yellow '33 Ford coupe.

2 mins

BYA RAZOR'S EDGE

Tom Bailey wins his fifth Drag Week to become America’s Fastest Street Car.

3 mins

TRANSLAMMED

A 2003 Corvette Z06 \"Vette kart\" wears 1977 Trans Am bodywork to create an IMSA Camel GT race team that never was.

6 mins

Crazy Godzilla

Bob and Preston Folkestad swapped F Ford’ s 73-liter Godzilla engine into their 1988 Mustang and prepped it to compete in the Optima Ultimate Street Car Challenge.

3 mins

TRACK WARRIOR TRUCK

DESIGNED TO HAUL CARGO, THIS PRO TOURING MUSCLE TRUCK NOW HAULS SOMETHING ELSE

3 mins

THE BIG TOP

In the January issue, we featured Gray Baskerville's '32 Roadster. In that article, we heaped praise on Gray for his witty and engaging writing style, so this month, we present two examples written from his early tenure at HRM. Both these features appeared in the February 1979 issue, and both are replete with Gray's signature humor and clever turns-of-phrase. Though there's no writer credited for the single pager on the fiberglass '32, it's pretty obviously Gray.

4 mins

DANISH BEACH PARTY

Vintage racing on the beach in Denmark.

3 mins

Swapping Solutions

Fitting a 5.0 Coyote in a 1979-2004 Mustang is easier with the Holley Ford Coyote-swap oil pan.

5 mins

Make it Happen!

Ford rolled out a 2024 Mustang GT3 race car during the 2024 Mustang launch-but what about a Cobra Jet?

4 mins

STROKER POWER

THIS 383CI CHEVY MAKES 610 LB-FT ON THE DYNO!

3 mins

SLIPPERY SITUATION

Is diesel motor oil the right choice for a gasoline engine?

4 mins

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