Model car kit box art from the '60s is one of the most overlooked styles of American illustration—except by hot rodders. The level of model building has never been higher than it is today. The ...

If you’re reading this and you were born after about 1945, it’s a near-certainty that you spent much of your youth building plastic scale model kits, probably including the timeless Visible V-8 or ...

Kids weren't the only hot rodders building models. These kits appealed to adults, too—and still do. That's proven by the quality of models you'll find at shows, and by the fact that some of the kits ...