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I'm way late to the dance on this one but I lived in Bozeman, Montana in the early 1970's and had some conversations with him and remember the...
Born in 1951, I grew up in smalltown Montana, which never had a real hot rod. As such, my love of hot rods has always been a wonder to me as I...
I can handle a lot of companies leaving California but there is a history, tradition and a cultural movement behind Edelbrock that makes it...
You don't really mention the money aspect of it (such as reserving the race track, promotions and ads, trophies and so on) and what would happen...
Here's a fascinating article in yesterday's LA Times describing how they came up with various locations shown in the movie......
The Road Queen! This may be the only hot rod or custom car in existence to be a true and genuine “Bad Girl” car – the real deal – that comes with...
1934 Ford 5-window coupe done in a racing theme. All steel except for dashboard and gas tank cover. 350 Chevy Edelbrock crate engine with two...
Rust and patina give any car an extra dimension...a sense of history that makes one wonder where the car has been, who drove it, how it was...
Yes, my favorite, too. However, I thought some of this year's suede-palace cars were a little too polished. There was a pair of '33-'34 heavily...
I wonder what would fetch more...the Chrisman Coupe or the Pierson Brothers Coupe. Any guesses?
A few years after I got out of school and moved to California in 1973, I attended a specialty-car auction or sale at the Universal City Hotel,...
Hmmmm....makes me wonder. If Norman had been a hotr odder, what would his car have looked like? If he was alive today and could commission a...
Here's a link to another MG-sponsored assault on Bonneville from the same era.... [MEDIA] This movie features a round race course on the salt...
Great cars! Thanks for posting. I'll have to give my Person's Choice Award to the Jack Goodrich 'A' roadster. I'm also liking the drag cars....
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I have my own large file of hot rod graphics. Here's a scallop job that's tasteful, effective and [ATTACH] rather unusual.
If roles were reversed - if this body was a stocker and then customized to look like what the stock version actually looks like, I'd be very...
That was the day when drag cars could and often did look quite differently from one another. Today, every class has cars that look-alike except...
I like seeing this car in these pages...I've never seen anything quite like it and it is a for-sure hotrod. I'd be embarrassed being seen getting...
In looking at it again, I will change my guess to: The guy had a chassis and needed a body. He got a deal on this body and thought it would be...
Maybe the car had front-end damage....the owner picking it up for cheap and cutting off the damaged part. Whatever the case may be, it looks like...
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/attachments/diy-streamliner-made-from-model-t-jpg.3106787/ I can see why this car might have been junked back...
Stogy, what a great group of cars you've presented us with! Thanks. Got any more???
Here's another good Barney Navarro article. He was quite a person.... https://ahrf.com/pioneers/barney-navarro The article concludes with.......
Barney is a good writer as well as horsepower maker...I wasn't aware of that until reading this article. He was quite an inventor and not just...
Very weird car. It may still be around. A subsequent owner may have gotten a new hood and front fenders, and shaved off the tail fins. But it...
Wow. This is one of the most amazing car or truck bodies I have ever seen. I especially like the cab area. But everything is just extremely...
This reminds me of my high school drafting class in the late 1960's. The teacher was lazy and unimaginative, and the only thing we did all year...
It's pretty insane. Nothing else in the universe is quite like Bonneville.
Here's my first hot rod, a '27 T I bought from a guy in LA. I kept it original except for the flames, which Dean Jeffries painted in a few hours....
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