Lokar Oldsmobile Hot Rod Parts

Like many of you, our New Year's resolutions often involve car projects. Jess Gasper tells us about a hot rod roadster project that followed her home and is going to keep her busy in the year ahead!

Tech write-up and a video of a Lokar shifter install on an automatic transmission.

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.

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!

Doug Siemen's Model T is a cool little hot rod. It's even better when you learn that it was built from scratch for a great cause. Check it out!

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

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.

Look up "hot rod" in the dictionary and you'll see a picture of this car.

Tim Matthews has been collecting pieces for this hot rod for a long time. Here's the amazing story in his own words...