Here are some of the best traditional hot rods, custom cars and vintage race cars from the 2017 Detroit Autorama.

There's no billet allowed, no 20- or 30- or 50-inch wheels, no high-tech modern street rods—it's traditional hot rods and traditional customs only. The magazines are calling it the fun house.

Bass Pro Hot rod builder Brian Bass of Bass Kustoms in Dallas showed up with a beautiful roadster to take on the course. It's a '32 roadster built with a S.Co.T.-blown 245ci Merc flatty.

Traditional hot rods often featured open-wheel designs, but federal crash safety laws made this difficult for production vehicles.

When it comes to Hot Rods that stop you in your tracks, this 1934 Ford 5-Window Coupe delivers a knockout punch — not with ...

If it offends traditional hot-rodders, they could consider how their parents felt about what they did 40 or 50 years ago. At least no one's into custom vans.

Driving your car on the salt at Bonneville is a rite of passage for hot rodders. It's one of the few racing venues that looks exactly as it did in the 1950s, so it serves as a virtual time machine ...

The "traditional" hot rod is an accurate re-creation or period-correct restoration of a hot rod from the same era. Most rat rods appear "unfinished" (whether they actually are or are not), with ...

This is a seemingly impossible task when traditional hot rods regularly change hands for high five-figure sums. The days of finding a cheap Deuce Coupe or '48 Merc around every corner in your ...

Since its completion, the car has racked-up just over 2,000 miles bringing the traditional hot rod scene to a growing crowd, traveling to car shows as far away as Long Beach, Calif., for the Ink ...

The local show will compliment the Billetproof Drags at Lakeland Motorsports Park on Sunday, which will focus on 1964 and prior traditional hot rods that encourage “run what you brung” and a ...