This car defies description. The longer you look at this '54 Chevy, the more amorphous it becomes. It's not Pro Street, but it does have big tires. It's not Pro Touring, but it does have a six-speed ...

Everyone from the average hot rodder to the most famous builder can get nervous when debuting a newly finished vehicle at its first show. For Steve Contris, from Hokes Bluff, Alabama, the vehicle was ...

My dad was a hot-rodder. In 1970, the year I was born, he and a friend took the straight-six out of his 1954 Chevrolet Bel Air and put in a small-block V-8 with a Muncie M22 four-speed manual. When I ...

Oscar Ruelas, 78, a car builder, retired longshoreman and co-founder of Duke’s car club, who lives in Los Angeles, on his 1954 “Mr. Lowrider” Chevrolet Bel Air, as told to A.J. Baime. I started ...

RB's kit was chosen mainly for the fact that it's a foolproof, bolt-in package, and the research taken to devise the kit could be used to reconstruct the Chevy's framerails. Plus, the fact that it's a ...