LeMay America’s Car Museum celebrates Collector Car Appreciation Day a little early on Thursday July 10 with a Cruise-In!   SEMA’s Annual Collector Car Appreciation Day will be celebrated on July 11, 2014 and throughout the whole month of July.  To read more about the day, go here: https://www.hotrodhotline.com/sema-secures-us-senate-resolution-designat… SEMA is maintaining a list of activities… Continue reading Collector Car Appreciation Day 2014 Event Roundup

We want to thank those of you who submitted your stories to tell us about “The One That Got Away.” And if you haven’t yet shared, please feel free to still send them in.  We actually were so taken with all of the tales that ultimately, we chose the winner of Pat Ganahl’s Hot Rod… Continue reading The One That Got Away

Story and Photographs by Roger Rohrdanz On November 23, 2013, a reunion was held at the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum presented by the Auto Club of Southern California. The reunion recalled the special moments from Orange County International Raceway. Operating between August 5,1967 with “The Last Race” on October 30, 1983, “The County” raised… Continue reading Orange County International Raceway Reunion

The gasser that got away. In 1974 when I graduated, there was an ad in a local paper and it said “old car $250.00” so I called the lady and went to look at it and when she opened the garage, I could not believe what I was looking at. All steel 1941 Willys Gasser… Continue reading Greg Lane's 1941 Willys Gasser

Story by Richard Parks Photographs by Roger Rohrdanz Leslie Long and Gene Mitchell organized the latest reunion for the Santa Ana Airport Drag Strip and Main Street Malt Shop on Saturday, October 12, 2013 at the park alongside of East Memory Lane and Main Street in the city of Orange, California. The day was bright,… Continue reading Main Street Malt Shop & Santa Ana Drags Reunion

I cruised the streets and avenues of Milwaukee, Wisconsin with this beautiful 1956 Buick, a white convertible with red interior, until 1963. Then I traded her in on a 1962 Chevy SS red convertible. When I got married, I bought the wife a 1955 Chevy 210 nicknamed “Mellow Yellow”. It was a stick shift, but… Continue reading Michael Martin's Blast to the Past

In early February, I saw an ad on Craigslist for a chopped ’50 Mercury in Orange County, CA. It was a beautiful car. All the ad said was “1950 Merc custom, must sell.” I called the number in the ad, and it went to voicemail. I left a message. Never heard back. Left 3 more… Continue reading David DeSure's 1950 Mercury Custom from "Grease"

Thought your readers may be interested in what the drag racing scene looked like in Melbourne, Australia at about the mid 1960’s. In Melbourne there was an old airstrip that used to belong to the Government Aircraft Factories, situated in Fishermans Bend, on the Yarra River. It was called Riverside Drag Strip. None of this… Continue reading Riverside Drags in the late '50s to mid '60s (Melbourne, Australia)

MSRA’s “Back to the Fifties” event will celebrate 40 years of hot rods and community this summer in St. Paul, MN.  In tribute to the event, we will be reposting excerpts from a series of articles that appeared in the MSRA LineChaser magazine in 2012 documenting the history of the event.  Thanks to Bud Bloomquist… Continue reading History of Back to the Fifties, Part III

Words and Photos: Chadly Johnson Automotive bucket lists are often nothing more than an unobtainable wish list of dream cars and fantasy road trips.  Jon Hageness of Osseo, WI is an exception to the rule and has been making steady progress on his bucket list through his own sweat and bloody knuckles.  Items checked off… Continue reading Cross Country in a 1931 Willys Roadster