Electric Dodge Muscle Cars Coming Much has been written about the impending end of internal combustion engines, but are we truly in the golden era of muscle cars? It depends on what constitutes a muscle car in the eye of the beholder. Is it a large displacement V8 at its core?  Is it an [...]

Hot Rod Shops Are Disappearing If it seems like it's getting harder and harder to find a good shop to build your hot rod, you'd be right. Hot rod shops are disappearing and they have been for decades. As a young man, I landed a job at Super Shops, a chain of speed shops in the Western USA. [...]

Electric Cars & The End of Hot Rodding People of my age grew up in the heyday of muscle cars - the 1970s. Back in 1980,  you'd find any number of muscle cars --  Camaros, Firebirds, Mustangs, Chevelles, El Caminos, and a wide assortment of Mopars in my high school parking lot. Some were a [...]

Prices of Auto Parts & Accessories Rising Unless you've been living under a rock, you know that costs are rising across almost every industry. Groceries, raw materials, imported goods, domestic goods, cars, and energy has been rising at alarming rates. Shutdowns during the global pandemic [...]