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 Payne was selected for a “winners circle” position at the 25th annual Good Guys...
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 no complaining about rising fuel costs. “We drove anywhere and everywhere, and never thought...
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. by Phil Patton Pebble Beach may have its Concours and Detroit its Woodward Dream...
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 and New Lebanon from 1975 to 1999. After a hiatus of more than a...
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 Utah beckon race car drivers around the world to test the limits of land...
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. “This is probably the most ambitious project I’ve ever taken on,” says Reinsch, who...
by Greg Billing, Staff Writer Kil-Kare Dragway hosts the third Gathering of the Geezers—an old-time drag race, car show and swap meet—starting 8 a.m. Sunday. NHRA Hall of Famer Roger Gustin serves as the Grand Marshall. The event is organized by Ed Crowder, a self-described “gearhead” who has piloted and promoted racing for nearly...
Trailer queens, garage maidens, seldom or never driven classics, frozen-in-time cars … these are not for the Fedoruk family of Chilliwack. They use their old cars. Really use them. For Lorne and Janice Fedoruk, getting in their customized 1948 Cadillac sedanette and rolling a couple of thousand kilometres is routine. They average 7,000 kilometres...
Randy Bergdall, left, Steve Bryan and Steve Leach wait in line for their cars to be judged at the Muddy River Run. Patrick Svitek/The Journal Gazette Behind every obsessively polished and preened antique automobile there’s an obsessive car enthusiast. And behind him is probably a less gung-ho wife – one tasked with tolerating the...
Joe Montgomery of Louisville has been dabbling in street rods for nearly 40 years. His current diversion — he can’t remember for sure whether it’s the fifth or the sixth rod he has built — is a torch-red 1932 Ford roadster convertible. Montgomery will park the pickup truck that he usually drives, climb in...
by Tim Bernsau; photo by Isaac Mion Ed Tuffield still remembers the day he grenaded the flathead engine in his ’51 Merc. It was the mid-’60s. The ’51 was his first car, a $150 stocker given to him by his father when he turned 16 the year before. The scene was a two-lane country...
by Dave Rasdal/SourceMedia Group News If you didn’t know any better, you’d think Ed Pettus’ Lockheed Lakester could fly. If you do know better, you know it has flown—as the wingtip gas tank of a 1950s Lockheed Super Constellation. But, today, that gas tank is a 17 1/2-foot shiny silver bullet car with 35-inch...