We can’t believe you’d be unaware, but just in case you’ve been held captive by crazed hill people or abducted by UFOs, we want to introduce you to Rod Authority’s newest Babe of The Month, Melissa Hayes. Obviously, we expect all of you to immediately leave this post and click over on Melissa’s massive photo gallery, but before you do, make sure you scroll down and check out the cool “Behind the Scenes” video we put together for you.

Melissa is a real local Southern California girl, who when she’s not a go-go dancer is modeling for photoshoots like these or just cruising around her home town of Lake Elsinore in her 5th Generation Camaro (finally a model who loves hot rods!). But if you’re just flipping through the pictures to check out the cars,you won’t be disappointed either.

We sat Melissa down behind the wheel of a wild ’34 Ford roadster that sports more custom parts than a copy of Playboy. But if eye-scorching red paint and hot yellow flames licking back from the nose don’t whet your whistle, then the slick silver ’57 Bel Air, which was once the darling of the Coor’s Light “Silver Bullet” campaign, might be more your style.

So drool over which you will, we cobbled together this great video of Melissa’s photoshoot with both the fire engine red ’34 Ford roadster and this iconic shoebox ’57 hardtop. Enjoy!