PART 1: THE EARLY YEARS / PART 2: THE 1950s / PART 3: THE 1960s / PART 5: THE 1980s / PART 6: THE FUTURE HOT ROD continued to maintain a high profile throughout the '70s by inspiring the sport, rather ...

When Steve Kelly wrote his deep-dive on Pontiac's new experimental dual-overhead-cam Hemi V-8 for the October 1970 issue of HOT ROD magazine (actually two engines!), performance was a moving target.

In 1973, fresh off the flop of his first feature, “THX 1138,” Universal released George Lucas’ “American Graffiti” — a box-office sensation and cultural touchstone that almost wasn’t. Set in Lucas’ ...

“Hot rods” should not be confused with “muscle cars”, insists Wikipedia. Yet in today’s classic automobile example at Beverly ...

1970 is the year the muscle car era peaked, and we have so many reasons to say that it would take half an eternity to list them all. But at the top of that list, fiercely fighting for pole position, ...