Te Puna hot-rod builder John Reid has put New Zealand in the spotlight at the biggest hot rod and custom car show on the US west coast. The 33 Ford Cabriolet built at Rods by Reid for Manila-based Kiwi Steve…
Indiana: When Frog Follies began in ’75…
Lynn Johnson remembers 1975 being a much simpler time for street rod enthusiasts. On a Saturday night, he and his crew of gear heads would cruise all over town with their girlfriends, and at 45 cents a gallon, there was…
New York: Beneath an Expressway, a celebration of rust and grease shines up
The Rumblers club convened the 11th annual Kustom Kills and Hot Rod Thrills rat rod show in Brooklyn on Saturday.Phil PattonThe Rumblers club convened the 11th annual Kustom Kills and Hot Rod Thrills rat rod show in Brooklyn on Saturday.…
Ohio: Butch’s back is back in business
by Thomas Gnau Butch Bunn is back on his feet again, and so his vintage and custom auto parts shop. Butch’s Cool Stuff in downtown Tipp City is a direct descendant of the Butch’s Rod Shop that operated in Moraine…
Utah: Hot rods take over Bonneville Salt Flats for annual Speed Week
Straightaway: Volk Brothers & Nish’s roadster race car completes a run. Hundreds of drag race cars will attempt to set land speed records during the course of the week by Jennifer Madison The snow white salt flats that span northwestern…
Kansas: Mercury from memory
Salina man has never forgotten the lines of the ’47 from his youth. by Mike Berry/The Wichita Eagle Don Reinsch’s rare post-war ’46 Mercury is the culmination of his quest to replicate a ’47 Mercury he owned many years ago.…