But dune buggies weren't the only bodies to be mounted up to shortened VW pans. There were several ... Well before the cushy street rod faction took over in the '80s, hot rodding of the '60s ...

With the possible exception of the '32 Ford and the "classic" '55-to-'57 Chevys, the lowly VW has experienced more ... the Volkswagen would make a primo street machine." But that was in the ...

The complexity and computerization of modern cars have made retro classics like the VW Thing cool again. It was officially ...

"It's about time someone decided to make a street rod out of the VW!" Those were the words of legendary HOT ROD staffer Tom Medley in the mid-'60s when he first saw a hot-rodded "Volksrod" at the ...

Hot rod expert Mark McPhail, a high-performance engineer for General Motors since the mid-1980s, is leaving GM to launch a street performance ... a variant of VW’s Direct Sequential Gearbox.