THE ORIGINAL SO-CAL Speed Shop belly tank lakester first raced at the Bonneville Salt Flats in 1948. Fifty-five years later, So-Cal is at it again. This time, instead of using a 315-gallon auxiliary ...

Throughout his 50-year career, Chapouris not only had a knack for developing and manufacturing hot rod parts that people needed but, along the way, he also opened up many new avenues for car ...

Here's a trend we're seeing more and more among pro car builders: building a car using the nicest starting point available. Remember Rod Saboury's original Pro Street '63 Corvette from the early '80s?

From the January 2013 issue of HOT ROD: Builder Dan Webb recreates the iconic vehicle that set the 200-mph bar back in 1950. To celebrate HOT ROD's 75th anniversary, we teamed up with CASTROL GTX to ...

Original hot-rod hero, founder of the So-Cal Speed Shop, World War II veteran, one of the founders of SEMA and the SEMA show, Alex Xydias died earlier this week in Southern California. He was 102.

As soon as he got out of the Army Air Corps in 1945, Alex Xydias founded the SO-CAL Speed Shop in Southern California. The shop went on to set records on the lakes and at the drags. Xydias went on to ...

LAS VEGAS– Leveraging more than half a century as a leader in hot rod building and racing on the drag strips and lake beds of Southern California, Pomona-based So-Cal Speed Shop unveiled a souped-up ...