This car was built on lottery money. It started with a $6 lottery ticket, I won $8,000. So, I wanted to build a drag car. I started looking around and couldn’t find anything. One day I was driving in Route 107, in Lynn, MA, on the left side of the street, I saw this Dodge… Continue reading Donny Tringali's – The Gambler

  Words: John Gunnell Wayne Schreier’s all-black chopped-but-not-channeled Deuce coupe is a fixture at the Symco Hot Rod & Kustom Weekender in Symco, Wisconsin. Previously we told you about the channeled-but-not-chopped orange ’32 Ford coupe that Wayne drives when he’s feeling… well, colorful. The black one is for those days he’s feeling a little more… Continue reading Wayne Schreier’s Black Deuce Coupe

  Owner:  Sean McConomy      Words & Photos:  Clive Branson Sean McConomy’s rat rod is about as subtle as a Wagnerian opera. But I suppose that is the whole point. Rat rods have always come across as lampooning the more traditional hot rods (customized but accurate interpretations or period-correct restorations of hot rods from the same… Continue reading Muscle Car Madness: 1928 Ford Model A Rat Rod

Lake George, NY
Saturday, September 8, 2018

  Words: Tommy Parry After eyeing his brother’s abandoned Caddy 500 motor for a few years, Randy felt the urge to finish the task and made an offer. So, two years ago, he got the bug to finish his brother’s incomplete engine and see where it led. After a winter of wrenching, he compiled the… Continue reading Randy's Caddy-Powered '57 Chevy

  Words & photos: Gary Rosier While some may scoff at a V-6 Mustang as a performance car, let us remind you that in 2012 Motor Trend ran this car through its paces, and based on its platform of a 3.7 liter, 24 valve V-6 generating 305 hp and 280 ft lbs of torque, they… Continue reading Building Miss Eleanor: A 2013 Ford Mustang

  Words: Tommy Parry Coming off the back of their success with the HellBoy C10 and Velocity Camaro, Keith and Bob decided to push the envelope and progress past where the two aforementioned builds were limited – all while sticking with the rules of SCCA and hillclimbing. They started with the vision of pushing a… Continue reading An '85 Trans Am Designed to Elevate Pro Touring Standards

  Words: Tommy Parry It’s a simple recipe. Take a short-wheelbased, compact ‘88 LX, stick a responsive but reasonable motor under the hood, retrofit the footwork with modern bits and hit the track. That was Phil’s approach with this stylish and functional build — which holds some real sentimental value for him. His grandpa purchased… Continue reading Phil's "Grey Ghost" Mustang

  Photos: Chadly Johnson         Words: Jim Lindsay & Chadly Johnson Jim Lindsay is a lifelong hot rodder, multiple land speed record holder and author based out of Oregon. Jim was still riding a bicycle when he was influenced by Bob Duedall’s drag coupe, and both Bob and the coupe have always had a very special… Continue reading Jim Lindsay's “Bob Duedall B/Comp Coupe”

  Photos: Chadly Johnson     Words: Rex Marshall & Chadly Johnson If you have ever attended Speed Week at Bonneville, you know there is hot rod eye candy around every pile of salt – so for any particular car to really stand out from the crowd, it has to be something very, very special. While roaming… Continue reading Rex Marshall's Survivor '54 Corvette