Danville, California's Deke Ballard likes his hot rod Harleys new and blue. Consider his '93 FXST, for instance. Deke's Ron Simms-massaged Softail is a dazzling array of paint and plate and no slouch ...

This little blue pickup is incredible. Neither a picture nor a thousand words do it justice. Start with the fact that it was built by 53-year-old Jim Ellett and a bunch of friends (including Jim and ...

It's not like the roads are littered with hot rods, far from it. In fact, each time you see a hot rod out in the wild, it's a cool experience — even the best factory hot rods are few and far between.

Yet within 15 years, and the turn of the century, youngsters from Burbank to Birmingham were creating traditional-style hot ...