Over the years we've gotten used to the fact that, on any given day, Bring a Trailer will have a Peugeot station wagon, a Lancia model that's the only one of its kind in the country and a 1990s Range ...

The electric powertrain nerds at EV West are doing everything they can to propel Southern California hot rod culture into the future. Electric drivetrain swaps in old cars are their bread and butter, ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. In 1827 Jedediah Smith became the first white man to cross the Bonneville Salt Flats. In honor of that, and Speed Week, Nice Price or Crack Pipe is ...

Gray Baskerville got it right back in 1975 when he wrote, "Seth Hammond is slightly eccentric..." Thus began the feature on Seth's Frontenac-headed Model T in the Sept. '75 issue of HOT ROD. Seth and ...

In the sea of muscle cars and hot rods here at Barrett-Jackson, this streamlined chrome roadster really stood out as being truly unique. Constructed from the wing tip tank of a Lockheed Super ...

Although the infiltration into the market will take time, I think it’s high time all of us accepted that EVs are no more a ‘niche’. It’s not just the automakers that are investing in electrification; ...

A year ago, I enjoyed five runs across the Bonneville Salt Flats in the coolest car at the SCTA's World Finals event-GM's stunning Ecotec Lakester (SALT LUCK, Automobile March 2005). It was not enough ...

It’s sleek, low, long and real fast, a converted dragster that as of Aug. 20 is the fastest XO/blown fuel Lakester in the world, with a record of 192.669 miles per hour set at Bonneville Salt Flats in ...

When Ed Pettus found a 700-gallon wing tank from Lockheed Super Constellation aircraft, he knew exactly what he wanted to do with it. Why, build a gigantic lakester speed-trial car, of course. “I’ve ...

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GM and the SoCal Speed Shop team up to create a 21st-century version of Alex Xydias' famed Belly Tank. The Ecotec Lakester is an exploration of what a modern belly-tank land speed record car would be.