Hot-rodding has long been tied to racing and motorsports. As the saying goes, “Win on Sunday, sell on Monday.” Seeing factory cars that they could actually own running on track and winning gets people ...

The formula was not necessarily a new one. Hot-rodders had been stuffing big engines in 1932 Deuce Coupes long before Carroll Shelby shoehorned a Ford small-block V-8 into a lightweight British sports ...