Hot Rod - September 2020

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’63 Chevy II: From Rust Bucket to DEFCON3.

Mom’s Hot Rodded ’55 Pontiac Chieftain.

Lokar/Street Rodder Road Tour ’34 Ford, Part 2.

Ken Duttweller’s 3,200HP Chevy Big-Block..

Contemplating the Gen III Hemi Swap

I received a press release a few days ago that sparked an interesting line of thought. Holley recently announced a new line of products for Gen III Hemi swaps into older vehicles, namely D100/D150 pickups and 1966 to 1972 B–Body cars.

3 mins

Hot Rod's First Primered Cover Car

It was a bold move to put a primered car on the cover of HOT ROD in 1982. That prime piece of car magazine real estate was supposed to be reserved for the hobby’s brightest, most pristine stars. Cars with nice paint, anyway—like a 1972 ’Cuda with a retina-sizzling color combination. But check out the other car on HRM’s cover from November 1982.

2 mins

The HOT ROD Archives

20 YEARS AGO September 2000: 156 pages, $3.99

2 mins

RARE X 6

Scratch-built 1936 Willys Runs a Rare 800hp V6 Hemi

4 mins

DEFCON 3

This Rusted Out 1963 Chevy II Becomes An Epic ProTouring Ride.

5 mins

Inspired by Greatness

This Pro Street 1978 Mercury Zephyr is a Gen-Xer’s Missing Link

3 mins

CANDY APPLE CHIEF

Hot Rodding A 1955 Pontiac Chieftain

3 mins

ON THE SCENE Quarantine Car Weekly Cruise in SoCal draws nearly 1,500 cars!

Like many good ideas, it started out of boredom.

1 min

What Is Octane Creep?

New engines on the dyno and regularly refreshed race engines run OK with higher static compression ratios compared to otherwise similar, regularly driven, identically-fueled street engines.

2 mins

STOP BUYING THESE CARS!

Too many cars are overpriced, and I’m here to do something about it. I’ve picked my top ten most ridiculously overvalued old vehicles, and if we stop buying them for six months to a year, demand will evaporate and prices will plummet. Are you with me?

3 mins

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Hot Rod Magazine is a monthly American car magazine devoted to hot rodding, drag racing, and muscle cars—modifying automobiles for performance and appearance. It was first published in January 1948 and is one of the oldest magazines devoted to hot rodding.

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