Introduced in 1964 as an affordable pony car, the Plymouth Barracuda morphed into a fully-fledged muscle car in less than a decade. The transformation was complete when the third-gen model arrived for ...

Writer/director Don Coscarelli shot the 1979 supernatural horror film Phantasm for just $300,000, and it ended making $22 million at the box office, which is astonishing for an indie flick. The cult ...

The first rule of the Cuda Club? You don’t ask how much it’s worth. The second? You bring earplugs. Hidden in suburban Chicago, Tom Lembeck’s private Mopar sanctuary is less a garage and more a ...

The definitive era of American muscle cars came just before emissions regulations of the '70s and just after Pontiac introduced its game-changing 1964 GTO. This marked the official beginning of the ...

Brian is a published author who has been writing professionally for a decade in politics and entertainment, but found his calling covering the automotive industry. His love of cars started at an early ...

The annual SEMA Show is the premier trade event for automotive specialty products in the world, and HOT ROD has been there since virtually the beginning. The HOT ROD team covers the SEMA Show ...