I’ve loved watching the amazing progress of Mark’s (Royalshifter)“Victoria Secret”, the ’51 Ford Victoria transformed from rust to glory. Seems like this might be a good time to give a little backstory on Ford’s shoebox Vicky (not to be confused with the ’30/’31 Model A or ’32 model by the same name). The 1951 Custom [...]
Customs
Short Story of the Shoebox Vicky…
It’s Just Stuff…
I love having my 3 year old son “work” out in the garage with me. Sometimes Henry J just sits in the driveway and plays with his die cast cars, but more often than not he’s much more active. This time he wanted to sit in my ’39 Mercury and “drive” for a while, so [...]
When your mods go wrong…
Chances are, if you’ve been playing with building hot rods and customizing old cars long enough, you’ve made a few small mistakes. Maybe a few large and ugly ones, too. Often in the pursuit of instant gratification or due to limited funds, I’ve made plenty of “two steps forward, four steps back” blunders on my [...]
My favorite 50 year olds…
My recent post on Corvette’s 60th birthday reminded me of some very important cars celebrating their Silver Anniversary in 2013. When you think about the year 1963, it was the beginning of big changes in Detroit car culture: The muscle car was coming, the compacts and imports were now a serious factor, and the days [...]
The Borranis Are Here… And so are the “Gold” Lines…
Last week, a gigantic god damned truck pulled up in front of my house. I was alerted to its presence by the sound of it’s knocking diesel and the whoooosh of its air brakes. Startled by the scene of it all, I jumped off the couch and met the clip board holding man at the [...]
Happy 60th Birthday, Corvette.
Whether you are a Vette lover or hater, the fact remains one of the longest running prodcution cars of all time is turning 60 years old this Summer. The first Corvette reached the end of the assembly line on June 30, 1953 after an exciting response from GM customers at the Motorama earlier that year. [...]
Power To The People
Last week, I mentioned that Rodder’s Journal had released their Dan Post Box Set to the world. Well, this week I got my set… and it is nothing less than incredible. So incredible, that I fired up my shitty (no really, it sucks) video camera and shot a little “unboxing” for you all to snicker [...]
The Five Finest Wheel Covers of the 50s
In part II of our Hubcap Heaven post, I’ve moved into the ‘golden age’ of wheel covers, with plenty of fine factory discs to chose from. “Dog Dish” caps were relegated to only the most utilitarian models by the mid 50s, as fancy finned wheel covers were gaining style each year, with GM and Mopar [...]
The Five Freshest Wheel Covers of the 40s
You might remember my “Five Freshest” Grilles and Taillights of the 40s posts from last Fall. It occurred to me that I left out a key set of parts that are rarely left stock on a custom project, and are actually one off the first things to get swapped: Hubcaps (Well technically, a ‘hub-cap’ covers [...]
