Dwayne Peace of Tyler, Texas takes home the coveted Ridler award for his '55 T-bird. The competition for the 49th Ridler award at the 60th Detroit Autorama was a stiff as it has been in many a year.

Chop, drop and roll--that's the unofficial motto at AutoRama, the 57th-annual festival of hot rods and custom cars in Detroit. Chop--as in slice the roof off your speedster with some unnatural surgery ...

Now that Detroit has had a month to bask in the future of what the automotive industry has to offer, the Motor City this weekend will take a look at its past. The 60th annual Autorama begins noon ...

Don Pilkenton, of Don's Hot Rods fame, was named Builder of the Year for the 2012 Detroit Autorama—an honor well deserved. Though there have been many names associated with the Detroit Autorama over ...

Dwayne Peace, his family and his 1955 Ford Thunderbird took hot-rodding's top prize at the Detroit Autorama on Sunday: the 49th Don Ridler Memorial Award. Peace, accompanied by his two sons who helped ...

In 1971, “The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour” made its debut on television, the U.S. spacecraft Mariner 9 achieved a successful orbit of Mars, and a special 1971 Grand Spaulding Dodge Hemi Super Bee was ...

Autorama 2012 opened this morning at the Cobo Center in downtown Detroit with large crowds rushing through the doors. http://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/cs_api/get_swf ...

A student-faculty team from Macomb Community College has an alternative fuel project that will be on display at Detroit Autorama, which opens today at the Cobo Center and runs through Sunday. The MCC ...