hot rod Archives - Mopar Connection Magazine | A comprehensive daily resource for Mopar enthusiast news, features and the latest Mopar techMopar Connection Magazine | A comprehensive daily resource for Mopar enthusiast news, features and the latest Mopar tech

News

General Registration for 2025 Hot Rod Power Tour is Open ...

Kevin Shaw

January 21, 2025

The world’s longest continual car cruise – the Hot Rod Power Tour – is back for its 31st year! Kicking off Monday, June 9th and running through that Friday the 13th (spooky!), the Hot ...

621

News

2024 Hot Rod Power Tour Sale on Mopar Connection T-Shirts!

Kevin Shaw

June 5, 2024

If you didn’t know already, we’re gearing up to have an awesome Hot Rod Power Tour next week (at the time of this writing). This year’s route for Power Tour will take us through much ...

957

News

2024 Hot Rod Power Tour Celebrates 30th Anniversary This June ...

Kevin Shaw

January 18, 2024

For many, it will be surprising that the Hot Rod Power Tour has been around for 30 years; for others, they’ll be surprised that it’s only been 30 years. But sure enough, the world’s biggest ...

2303

News

Drag Week 2023 Is Made Possible By Gear Vendors

Gavin Wollenburg

August 29, 2023

Few a while now, more and more events have popped up that require you to drive and not trailer your car from race track to race track. You might have guessed it, but Hot Rod ...

714

News

Gallery: Dodge Muscle Trucks From Hot Rod Power Tour

Gavin Wollenburg

July 14, 2023

Although we did not attend this year’s Hot Rod Power Tour, we came across one of their albums with all of the trucks from Power Tour. As you can imagine there were a majority of ...

2218

News

Lakewood Puts “Mr. 4-Speed” Ronnie Sox in the Winner’s Circle

Chris Holley

March 16, 2020

The year was 1970, and NHRA had a brand-new door slammer eliminator comprised of vehicles similar in appearance to the muscle cars driven off the dealership showroom floors…Pro Stock. The most dominant Pro Stocker in ...

4904

Show Coverage

Gallery: ‘Cuda Rick’s 2019 Hot Rod Drag Week Adventure

Rick Hardee

October 11, 2019

When it comes to true street legal drag racing, it’s no doubt that Hot Rod Magazine’s Drag Week presented by Gear Vendors Overdrive is one of the most popular events out there. Since 2004, Drag ...

4563

Show Coverage

Gallery: Roadkill Nights by Dodge Brings Two Days of Supercharged ...

Patrick Rall

August 30, 2019

Earlier this month, the fifth annual Roadkill Nights by Dodge automotive festival was held in Pontiac, Michigan, with the organizers expanding the event to two days for the first time. As a result, this year’s ...

2344

News

Video: Taming Fraken’Cuda’s 2000HP with Gear Vendors Overdrive

Gavin Wollenburg

September 11, 2018

When it comes to monster power and drivability there’s only one name that comes to mind, Gear Vendors Overdrive. When you hold multiple world records in drag racing, land speed and other forms of racing ...

4735

Car Features

Gallery: Jacob Machowsky’s 1940 Dodge Business Coupe

Maxx Kominsky

September 5, 2018

Jacob Machowsky has been a hot rodder since the beginning. He has owned several types of hot rods over the years. Originally, a Kern County native, Machowsky would frequent the various meets in his area. ...

6528

Tag: hot rod