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 ...

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 ...

His shop also sold hot rod parts. During the 1960s ... for body shops and sell hot rod parts until he sold Betz Paint and Speed to Sherwin Williams in 1993. He worked for Sherwin Williams for ...

Imagine a custom-built, 1955 Ford hot rod ... a yen for speed and perfection. Inside a nondescript industrial building -- and another restoration plant one block behind the main shop -- Moal's ...

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.

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 ...

It was during these high-speed smuggling escapades that Zora first ... Nate installed a set of Kinmont style brakes from Johnson's Hot Rod Shop. These brakes are based on vintage Kinmont Safe ...

It was evidence of Traditional Speed and Custom’s growing presence ... After about 10 years, he took a pay cut to work at a hot rod shop in Tilton. More than a decade later, he went to work ...

By the time the sedans joined the hot rod movement, more extensive, chop-shop style removal of body ... to raise gear ratio at high speed, while in the front smaller wheels allowed the car to ...

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 ...