The early ’60s were a turning point for the high performance world when engineers at Chevrolet, Ford and Chrysler hustled horsepower to maintain track dominance.

Most cars are a year or two in build, some take a year or three, and then there are those that take a decade or more.

Down on the South Coast of England, Jim Turnbull’s Royal Kustoms hot rod shop has, over the last nine years, carved quite a niche for itself within the classic rallying world.

If you’re any kind of a car person there are certain images that are just imprinted on your retina. I have dozens but one is a Don Emmons shot of Jim Ewing pulling a wheelie in his ‘Texas T’ bucket in the 1969 Street Rod Pictorial.

Carroll Shelby gave us the GT350, Steve McQueen Bullitt and Toby Halicki Eleanor what more could we ask for?

Ten-second hot rods are no big deal today but 35 years ago, they were a BIG DEAL.

Gone now, but in its day the Oldsmobile brand was regarded as innovative and it’s arguable that Olds rather than Pontiac launched the muscle car when they introduced the ‘Rocket 88’ in 1949.

You’d think that a jacked-up, straight-axle shoebox punctured with 2000 “lightening holes” would wobble down the road on its cheater slicks like a Slinky on speed, but this ’55 recently road-tripped thousands of miles on its maiden outing without endangering anything but eardrums and faulty assumptions.

‘She’s real fine,’ says the 1962 Beach Boys’ hit ‘409’ and believe me, there are none finer than Butch and Debbie Schultz’ one-of-one 1961 Chevy Biscayne Fleetmaster 409.

Born September 3, 1921 in Highland Park, California dry lakes pioneer and hot rod industry mover and shaker Don Blair attended South Pasadena, California’s Lincoln High School prior to taking automotive classes at Los Angeles, California’s Frank Wiggins Trade School.

It’s hard enough to build a car from scratch in the US, where we have all the ingredients— from metal to talent. Can you imagine trying to build a faithful Indy car replica out of scrap metal in the tiny land-locked Czech Republic?

Earlier this year TT made the trek to Spaceport America for the inaugural Spaceport America Invitational organized by the East Coast Timing Association (ectamile.com).

We first encountered Todd Landon’s Mustang GT350R ‘Silver Bullet’ at an East Coast Timing Association (ECTA) land speed event at Blytheville, AK, in 2019.

McLaren’s legendary F1 or Gordon Murray’s F1b? When considering the design of these two cars you come up with that old question: “The real thing or the new hopeful on the block.”

Anything black stands out on the glistening white salt flats of Bonneville— especially if it’s not splattered with salt.

Drag racers—especially during the sport’s early and less restrictive years—would try anything that made sense. And not surprisingly, they looked in all sorts of places to find them.

In a coffee shop at one of the casinos lining the main boulevard in Wendover, NV, four guys are having breakfast. It’s Speed Week 2008.

It was the late-80s; I was in my mid-20s and had decided to build myself a race car. Not just any race car, but a 1948 Ford Anglia panel van.

I lifted the dusty ol’ cover and saw what I thought was an Opel taillight. Later, I lifted some more and thought, no, it’s a Volvo P1800.

Even though they are at least one generation apart, there are a couple of big beasts that will always be in the top ten of any muscle car enthusiast’s wish list.