The Archive

The West Coast Pioneers

6 sample features from the HotRodHistory.com demonstration.

How Southern California's dry lakes became the first great proving ground of American hot rodding.

In 1949, the SCTA took hot rodders to the Utah salt — and created an annual pilgrimage that endures today.

Robert E. Petersen and Robert Lindsay launched Hot Rod magazine — and helped change how the public saw the hobby.

Half a century after Hot Rod magazine, the internet opened a new chapter in automotive publishing.

A Los Angeles hot rodder who turned grinding camshafts into one of the best-known names in speed equipment.

In 1951, a magazine editor set out to move drag racing off public streets and onto safe, organized strips.