The Hot Rod Bible Study began in the early 2000's when Pastor Ed Rea of the Packinghouse Christian Fellowship in Redlands, California, noticed that many of his hot rod buddies were not attending the men's functions at church. Ed realized that many hot rodders, who by now were no longer juvenile delinquents, but senior delinquents, had never been to church or had been disenfranchised by a church body sometime in their life. Ed enlisted his friend, Ron Van Grouw, and started the HRBS in Ron's home shop.

In 2017 Pastor Ed turned the study over to Willie Martin and in 2020 it was brought online.