Danville, California's Deke Ballard likes his hot rod Harleys new and blue. Consider his '93 FXST, for instance. Deke's Ron Simms-massaged Softail is a dazzling array of paint and plate and no slouch ...

This little blue pickup is incredible. Neither a picture nor a thousand words do it justice. Start with the fact that it was built by 53-year-old Jim Ellett and a bunch of friends (including Jim and ...

Building custom cars to a certain aesthetic and performance has been a favored pastime since not long after Karl Benz puttered out of his garage on the Motorwagen. Ever since that fateful day, ...

The hot rod dates way back to the 1920s, but found its cultural footing in post-World War II America. Soldiers armed with mechanical training picked up cheap Ford Model Ts and found ways to make them ...