Emerging trends in any industry can be hard to spot from year to year, but when you add a two-year worldwide pandemic to global supply-line bottlenecks you get an environment ripe for rapid change.

"It's about time someone decided to make a street rod out of the VW!" Those were the words of legendary HOT ROD staffer Tom Medley in the mid-'60s when he first saw a hot-rodded "Volksrod" at the shop ...