While we often use the term hot rod to refer to any vehicle that has been modified for speed or beauty, arealhot rod is a pre-'49 piece of American-made machinery. That's right, street ...

The passing of the sleezy scrounge and his backyard "bitsa" (a bomb built from bits of this and bits of that) was inevitable. Old clunkers have become "collectibles." Junkyards have become recycling ...