Mercury Hot Rod Low Drag Parts

This drag and drive '49 Mercury is not at all what you'd expect from a chopped Merc. It's part custom, part hot rod, and built to do it all.

This or that: stripped down for speed or low and slow in a slick custom?

Learn how to lower a hot rod by modifying the axles and some history behind early hop ups. This project features a Ford axle with wishbones for a Model A.

There is certainly more than one way to get your project's ride height or stance where you want it and we provide a brief overview of the options in this buyer's guide on lowering products.

When it comes to a traditional style build on an early hot rod it just has to be rolling on a solid front axle of some sort. In this buyer's guide we take you through I-beam and round tube solid axles, spindle choices, radius rod needs, and more.

Discover the best wheels for drag racing; the lightest options, beadlocks, and SFI certified wheels and learn how beadlock wheels work

If you had to pick only one-is it a hot rod or a muscle car?

Speedway's own Jess MacKichan ran her hot rod '33 Ford up the mountain at this year's Hot Rod Hill Climb in Colorado! Here's her report, along with some great photography that will make you wish you had been there!

That flathead engine pictured on our street rod catalog cover is just one little piece of a pretty mean little Model T hot rod. Check it out.

This year's Hot Rod Power Tour spanned 5 days across 5 cities from Tennessee to Indiana and we rode along with one of the craziest vintage Mail Trucks you can imagine!