Hot Rods

While most automotive concepts look forward to the future, or at most embrace a few key design attributes of classic cars, this unusual concept car from GM’s Australian Holden division was almost entirely a retro-style hot rod.

I know some of you guys are purists when it comes to restoring classic cars, but sometimes a restomod can be much better than the original. That’s definite the case with this awesome Dodge Polara, built by Boyd Coddington.

When somebody mentions “rat rod,” it conjures images of rough-around-the-edges cars designed with simplicity and power in mind. You know, something like this. In the case of this concept design by Pawel Winsniewski and Jans Slapins, that couldn’t be further from the truth.

Detroit’s big Autorama hot rod show just wrapped up this past weekend, and as usual, there were hundreds of awesome custom cars on display for the public to see. While we weren’t able to attend this year, our friends over at Brobility managed to get some quality time on the show floor, and shared some images with us.