Like many of those who created it in 1950s and ’60s garages, the postwar hot-rod culture has grown mature, rich and rather respectable. In place of personalized jalopies cobbled together with ...

But, after the decline of hot-rod culture in the ’70s and ’80s ... associating with the biker gang Hells Angels in the late ’60s. That lifestyle eventually contributed to the end of his ...

Hot rod culture, like every culture ... A hot rod built following styles that were popular in the 1940s, '50s, and '60s, using parts from those times (or parts that resemble them).

To celebrate HOT ROD's 75th anniversary ... but by the early '60s, even pop culture told everyone that flogging the throttle was way more cool. The Beach Boys never sang about power parking.

and early 60s. The rat rod’s birth signified a throwback to the hot rods of the earlier days of hot-rod culture—built according to the owner’s abilities and with the intention of being driven.

Vampires have made their way through 1930s Hollywood, 1940s wartime and 1950s hot-rod culture, so of course the 1960s story line of American Vampire: Second Cycle sends fanged contingents to both ...

When one of these stubby bastards landed on the cover of Hot Rod magazine in August 1966, the whole world became a fan. I was raised about 2,000 miles from the nearest cactus, and I couldn’t ...

Charles Ryan, the musician and songwriter who co-wrote the hit song “Hot Rod Lincoln,” died Saturday ... and it has been a mainstay of popular culture for decades. Ryan was born in Graceville ...

Every generation has its car culture. Depending on when you grew up it might have been Hot Rods of the 30s, 40s or 50s; Kustoms of the 50s and 60s; the muscle cars of the late 60s and ...