Few hot rod shops have had as big a role in the history of hot rodding as SO-CAL Speed Shop. Fans of the Pomona, California-based shop will be happy to learn that the famous business was recently ...

tells the story about how he hired one of HOT ROD'S earliest staff members, Tom Medley, when he discovered an early Medley cartoon on the bulletin board at Blair's Speed Shop. Medley, of course ...

Hot rod hero Alex Xydias, founder of the SO-CAL Speed Shop, WWII Army Air Corps veteran, one of the founders of the SEMA show, a Petersen Publications publisher, and an all-around great guy ...

When the Pebble Beach Concours finally created a Hot Rod class, he won that too. In the late Nineties, Chapouris revived the famed So-Cal Speed Shop, and build a series land speed record cars for ...

The owner of a Huntington Beach hot rod shop hopes to gain national attention this year as he and his crew document building a 1941 classic coupe from the ground up. The Speed Channel is featuring ...

Each year, the Hot Rod Power Tour gathers thousands of gearheads and classic cars for a road trip through some of the ...

An April, 1963 HOT ROD cover star that reportedly blew ... Lee Titus, a legendary name from California's heyday of hot-rodding, owned a speed shop that he started in 1955. This car, featuring ...

For exhaust, the ’62 went to Barillaro Speed Emporium for headers ... and the Alloway’s Hot Rod Shop Corvette creations that followed he has become the best known.

Driving a custom-built hot rod is among the most classically American automotive pastimes. But with well over a century of American steel to pick from, it's potentially a fool's errand to try and ...

It began in the 1920s and 1930s when speed ... in a chop shop — where thieves take cars to part them out. However, the right type of person might enjoy having a chopped hot rod.