Buyer's Guides

Buyer’s Guide: Our 10 Favorite Cragar SS Wheels

Cragar SS wheels are classics. They’ve been around as long as the American muscle car itself, and the forward-thinking designers at Cragar have continued to roll out new flavors of the venerable SS over the past 50-plus years. Whether you’re into American muscle, classic street rods, or trucks, there is a set of Cragar SS wheels

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Buyer’s Guide: Hot Rod Apparel for the Holidays

We’re getting down to it. Eleven days and counting. Are you in Christmas present scramble mode? At least one blog-post writer is. Good thing we know where to find some good last-minute gifts for everyone with a little 110-octane coursing through their veins. We rummaged through the racks at Summit Racing, looking for great hot-rodding

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Man Cave Items to Hot Rod Your Home

The holiday season always gets our gift-giving wheels turning. Inevitably, while shopping for others, we stumble on stuff we want, too. Bonus. If you’re a man, you have trouble shopping. If you’re shopping for a man, you’re in trouble. But here are 8 ideas for every home and budget situation that can fill your little

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Black Friday Finds: Tools, Toys, Trinkets & More

Sure, you could camp out next to Best Buy for a chance to score Black Friday deals. You could wake up at 3 a.m. and fight traffic in your quest for the best holiday deals. Or you could get trampled by a herd of bargain-hunting housewives on a mission for this year’s hot ticket holiday item. But

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Video: Top 10 Winter Storage Tips for Vehicles

Old Man Winter is a crusty old coot. He’s cold, miserable, and he hates your hot rod worse than loud rock ‘n roll music and new-fangled cellular devices. In fact, winter (we like to refer to him by last name only) is more than willing to do harm to your prized vehicle, so sometimes it’s

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Buyer’s Guide: Off-Road Wheels and Tires

Are you the kind of driver that prefers mud, dirt, and rocks to smooth pavement? We understand. One of the most-important components of your off-road machine is your wheels and tires. You need wheels to look like the baddest mother around. And you need tires to actually move out there in the wilderness. That’s why

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Gift Guide: Help Dad Mark His Territory—Like a Wolf

If you’re anything like us, you often find yourself just living your busy life and all the sudden—BAM!—total panic sets in because that thing (wedding, baby shower, birthday, graduation, Valentine’s Day, anniversary, Mother’s Day, etc.) is any day now, and you haven’t bought a gift yet. Well, this is for you, our procrastinating brethren and

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Father’s Day Gift Guide: The 12 Tools Every Gearhead Dad Should Own

There are a few unequivocal, undebatable facts of the gearhead universe: If you wear a white T-shirt, grease will always find it. There’s no such thing as a “finished” project car. Car guys love tools. While we don’t have scientific evidence to support those first two assertions, we do have proof that car guys love

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