Smokey Vs. The Dukes with Extra PhotosEXCLUSIVE ONLINE-ONLY PHOTOS: The age old question of Southern Car Lovers who grew up watching these two shows. Which was better... Smokey, or the General Lee?Admit it, somewhere deep inside you're either a Smokey and the Bandit guy or a Dukes of Hazzard guy. A Trans Am lover or a Charger fan. You had a crush on either Daisy or Frog. OK, both. But when it com
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1999 Chevy Camaro - 11s, Bone StockOK, Itâs Not All Stockâbut the Long-Block Is, Right Down to the Cam. And No Nitrous!This guy has a really cool approach to going fast: Leave the engine stock and hop up everything around it. His formula has delivered an 11.62 e.t. at 117 mph from an untouched LS1 in a '99 Camaro. How? Traction, gears, and weight reduction. It reminds us a lot of how Hot Rod
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1954 ZR1Timeless Kustoms Combines an Old Vette Shell With the Latest and Greatest New Vette PartsWith their standard Blue Flame six-bangers, the '53 to '55 Corvettes could never be called fast--not even remotely quick by today's standards--but that's not what made people love them. At a time when new cars were big and heavy, the Vette, and its Ford Thunderbird cousin, offered a smaller and sporti
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1967 Chevelle - It's Big To Be SmallJake Runs Bottom 10s Without a Big-Block, an LS Engine, or a Power-Adder. Itâs All Mouse Motor HereThere's a time-proven formula for running 10s in a Chevelle: You build a fairly simple 496ci Rat motor. Done. Or you go even milder, then throw some nitrous on it. Easy. But some guys just won't roll that way--"bottles are for babies" and all that. Jake Stelter
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Richard Gilliam's 1932 Coupe - A Long Haulerâs DeuceThrowing the shifter in High gear and rolling down the interstate at 75 mph in Richard Gilliamâs â32 coupe, as we did during the â11 Power Tour®, was a sheer joy.Richard Gilliam Sarasota, Florida The problem with a genie hot rod is driving it. Straight-axle front suspension designed in the teens can make for darty high-speed manners. Bu
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1969 Plymouth Satellite - Stinkbug Stance!Road Runner Street MachineNose dragginâ, tail wagginâ. Mismatched wheels, squirrelly rubber, a knee-busting clutch, and a gnarly rumble. Yeah, street machines are back. Guys of the Car Craft Street Machine Nationals generation have slipped into a state of dementia, forgetting the mechanical horrors of their gearhead youth and smokinâ it back to the
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1955 Chevrolet Bel Air - Super FreakOne Manâs Righteous Attempt To Relive the Glory Days of Psychedelic Paint, Ear-Splitting Exhaust Notes, and Sky-High Hot RodsTony Vestuto resembles a movie character who mobs around town in a tow truck Monday through Friday and does angry, block-long burnouts in a hopped-up hot rod on weekends. He is that guy. Heâs an imposing figure who doesnât need to g
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1927 Ford Model T Coupe - Gold BrickDennis Strayer's period-perfect T coupe.Thereâs an unfortunate irony in the fact that the cover car for our âBuilt, Not Boughtâ issue was, um, bought. However, current owner Dennis Strayer in Michigan picked it up from Bob âBleedâ Merktâthen in Wisconsin, now in Austin, Texasâwho did pound together this rod from scratch. Thereâs really no other
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1953 Chevrolet Suburban - 75 Years Of SuburbanIt's been 100 years of Chevy, and 75 years of the Suburban. No matter how you slice it, it's about time to celebrate and commemorate.Some projects come together over the course of a year or more, and some happen almost overnight. The Suburban seen here is an example of the latter. As the '11 HOT ROD Power Tour was looming, GM Performance Division kick
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2011 SEMA Show - Come and Get It!HOT ROD's online-only gallery of cars from Tuesday at the 2011 SEMA Show in Las VegasSEMA 2011 is officially on, and we've got a gallery of the hottest muscle cars, both old and new. We also got images of Ken Block getting sideways in his AWD Fiesta and Vaught Gitten Jr. Roasting the tires in his 5.0L Mustang. Editorial Assistant Kesse Kiser got to ride shotgun wi
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1924 Ford Model T - WinSure there's nothing right with this hot rod... Then again, if loving this car is wrong, we don't want to be right... Or something like that.There's nothing particularly right about this hot rod, but we defy you to find anything wrong with it--unless, of course, you're married to paint, polish, period-perfection, pulchritude, and all those other fun-killing pains in the pat
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1959 Jaguar - I Will Run 200One night in 1989, Kris Henderson had one of those ideas, one of those crazy ideas when you look at your car and say to yourself, "This would make a cool hot rod."There's something about this multipurpose hot rod you just have to love--whether it's the ultraflat tractor paint, the obnoxious hoodscoop, the tube chassis, or the fact that it has all that in a '59 Jag Mark
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1932 Ford Hot Rod - Roaster!The year is 1932. Hoover is in office, Ameliar Earhart is flying around, and Babe Ruth is playing baseball. This is the year that brought about the 1932 Ford Roaster.Rubber splattered off the tires like guts from a shotgunned gopher. With the TKO five-speed in Second and the 454 at 5,000, the Mickey Thompsons were making the ultimate sacrifice. This was the moment we'd
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Fantastic Coupe!Chrisman Champion Holds Its Own Against Clock or Critic. February 1954 HOT ROD Magazine's Hot Rod of the Month. Photo Gallery: The February 1954 HOT ROD Magazine Hot Rod of the Month - Fantastic Coupe! Photo Gallery: The February 1954 HOT ROD Magazine Hot Rod of the Month - Fantastic Coupe!Fantastic Coupe! |
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KMS Copper And Silver Cars - The GoddessesAluminum and copper are two metals that are extrodinarily grueling to work with for fabricators... So why would someone willingly make two entire chassis out of them each? The answers are within.Fact: copper is hard to weld, and some people are allergic to copper dust. This means handforming the body of a car from sheets of copper is not only cost prohibi
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The Lexus supercar, the LF-A, is going topless. In one of the rare surprises to sneak past our auto show spies, TheCarConnection.com has learned Toyota 's luxury division will be rolling out a roadster version of the carbon-fiber and aluminum sports car concept vehicle. Like the concept coupe, that debuted last year, the LF-A Roadster will be...
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