Sometimes the first hop-up you see as a youngster makes the longest lasting impression. For a very young Wes Watson of Pasadena, Maryland, it was a chopped Model A coupe packed with a full-race ...

Dan Jacobs—who happens to own a couple of hardware stores in and around the megalopolis of Manteno, Illinois—finally contracted "ape streetus," the most virulent form of the hot rod bug. Seventeen ...