Jay's buddy Jason Len of XKs Unlimited stops by with the barely street legal Plus 8 he built to rip on the racetrack!

It's been the same body style forever, but Jason Len's Plus 8 is a heck of a lot different under the hood...

Hot rod archeologist extraordinaire Pat Ganahl stops by with his latest book, chock full of great stories about rare rods.

Dwayne Vance stops by with the latest installment in his Masters of Chicken Scratch series of collectible - and instructional - art books.

Check out the hot rod Jay and the Big Dog team created for SEMA 2005.

Get an up-close look at Jay's custom hot rod. The bulletproof small block makes it a great daily driver!

Director of the IronMen Foundation Chuck Caswell stops by with a special hot rod, created from donated parts and built by volunteers. It's headed for auction to fund scholarships for the children of slain and disabled soldiers, and honors our veterans.

New Orleans designer J.T. Nesbitt took Jay's question (Why isn't natural gas sexier?) as a challenge, and answered it by creating this gorgeous CNG. Inspired by '30s grand prix racers, the Magnolia Special made it from New York to Los Angeles in 89 hours!

Bob Larivee (the man responsible for the legendary Red Baron) stops by with his deluxe two-volume box set, which covers the last 60 years of indoor hot rod shows. It's the history of custom cars in pictures!

Get the full lowdown on Jay's Tank Car, a 16-foot-long air-cooled hot rod, powered by an 800+ hp engine from an M-47 tank!

Ed Justice stops by the garage with the latest from the Justice Brothers Racing Heritage Library, Tom Madigan's "The Chrisman Legacy: Always Faster."...

Where have all the famous hot rods gone? That's a question that dogged self-described hot rod archaeologist Pat Ganahl. Now he's written a book cataloging nearly 100 remarkable stories of the greatest vintage rods, and the people who collect them.

Check out a photo gallery of fan's hot rods! And click here to learn how you can upload pix of your automotive beauty and earn a shot at some cool prizes, too.

Auto-journalist Ken Gross talks to Jay about his Art of the Hot Rod book.

It takes a lot of horsepower to pull a racecar up a hill, and if you're a trophy-winning racer like Big Dog Garage general manger Bernard Juchli, then you want to travel in style, which is why you need a bus... a 1961 Flxible Starliner to be exact.

This SoCal hot rodder and engineer is a racing legend

Hot Rod Bus Wiring

Introducing the American Hot Rod Foundation!

The "e" was removed from the word "flexible" so the name could be trademarked.

Everything new but the roof.