If there is one thing tracking car auctions for years on end has taught us, it is that it rarely happens for a custom vehicle, especially a very well-crafted one, to remain unsold. Yet, Mecum's ...

It's an odd relationship between a hot rod builder and a customer. The customer is the one paying for the job, but the experienced judgment of the builder is a big part of what he's paying for.

In a much simpler time at the turn of the 20th century, America's first hot rodder, Henry Ford, was busily working on machines in his cramped one-room workshop to retire horse-drawn transportation. He ...