Hemmings Find of the Day – 1975 MG BGT

At first glance, this 1975 MG BGT for sale on Hemmings.com looks like a rather clean rubber-bumper example, which is already fairly uncommon here in the States. Then you see that the seller swapped in an 215-cu.in. V-8 stroked to 266 cubic inches and fitted with all sorts of chrome and go-fast goodies. Sneaky, sneaky. […]

Vintage ‘78 – Shelby, Shelby, Shelby

Who knew that Shelbys were such hot commodities in the late 1970s? I recently went digging through another box of photos submitted for Hemmings Motor News, this time for the July 1978 issue, and found plenty of Shelbys for sale for prices that, well, will seem a little sadistic should I print them. But I’ll […]

The most honest metalworking book in the world

Perhaps the greatest legacy of the nostalgia rod movement is the torrent of creativity it unleashed upon hot rodding as well as the urge among hot rodders to learn how to cut, shape and weld metal to push the envelope of hot rod styling.
Enter Walt Scadden, a New England hot rodder for 50 years and […]