Less than two years after it was completed, the Dodge Deora became a legendary custom, an official Crysler concept, an AMT plastic scale-model kit, and one of the very first Hot Wheels die-cast toy ...

If you were a kid growing up when the 1960s gave way to the 1970s, chances are you played with a lot of miniature toy cars made by Hot Wheels. You might even have spent time gluing car models together ...

How one of the most radical and transformative custom concepts of its era became an automotive icon. [This story first appeared in the premier issue of MotorTrend Classic in 2005] Concept car? Custom?

View post: Car Owners Trust Dealers More But Still Go Elsewhere For Service Have you ever wanted to own your very own life-sized Hot Wheels car? Here’s your chance! As part of RM’s Icons of Speed and ...

Looking like a pair of Hot Wheels toys come to life, the custom cars that inspired two of the most recognizable toys of all time will be on display on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., beginning ...

Deora, or Dodge Deora, was built by Detroit’s Mike and Larry Alexander, which won the famed Ridler Award. Ed “Big Daddy” Roth’s Beatnik Bandit helped establish the wild bubble-top show car era of the ...

If the vehicles at this year’s Cars at the Capital exhibition look familiar, that’s because you may remember them from much smaller versions: Ed “Big Daddy” Roth’s 1961 Beatnik Bandit hot rod and the ...

Some of the greatest heroes of the show car world gained fame at the Detroit Autorama. In the late '50s through the mid-'60s, builders like George Barris, Gene Winfield, Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, Darryl ...