Listen to that sweet small-block Chevy exhaust rumble as Duane Smith backs his home-built V-8-swapped 2003 Mini Cooper S out of the garage.

Reviewing the past 40 years of hot rodding's history naturally leads us into the next century, and the temptation to predict the future of our sport beyond 1999. Where will hot rodding stand 15 years ...

Some of the very first self-propelled vehicles were products of engineers and the curious in private garages and workshops. Within a few decades of the invention of the first car, companies were ...