I’ve just wrapped up a very fun (but hot & tiring) Father’s Day weekend co-hosting a car show at Downtown Disney in Orlando called the “Car Masters Weekend”. Its not a traditional hot rod and custom show, but there are some great rides, and it’s nice to be part of a real family car event [...]
Folks
3 Things I’ve Learned About Chip Foose
Posted on June 18th, 2013 by Jive-Bomber
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Filed under: Folks
Campfire Tales
As the embers of the campfire began to crisply glow, the familiar scent of a Midwestern summer swept through the panoramic night sky. The spindly legs of my stamped steel chair dug into the softening earth as I ran my feet through the dew covered grass. I looked to both sides, finding comfort in the [...]
Post-War ‘Hot Rods’ at Indy
Thank you for indulging me with another look at Indy cars and drivers of influence. This time we’ll look at my favorite open wheel racers from after the war. You’ll notice how many beautiful and unique cars were built year after year from 1947 through the late 50s, much like early hot rods and customs [...]
Five Favorite Jeffries Stripe Jobs
Dean Jeffries was a lot of great things in the car world: Racer, designer, fabricator and builder. But his biggest impact by far would be his custom painting and pinstriping. In the late 50s, if you wanted the very best of the best in hand striping on your car, there were only two guys to [...]
The Dean Jeffries Photo Thread
About five or six years ago, Rod Powell invited me to go to the Hall Of Fame banquet at the Grand National Roadster Show. It was one of those deals where you sit down to a table cloaked with a white tablecloth and topped with cold chicken and watered down tea and mentally prepare yourself [...]
Five Favorite Hot Rod Photographers
We look at them everyday right here on the Journal. Most we see are decent quality, but plenty more could be described as just fair: Images of cars snapped on a digital camera or mobile phone. But what makes a truly great automotive picture? Not just in terms of quality or composition. The kind of [...]
Hero
Through the years, I’ve watched the H.A.M.B. make many a hero – some deserving and some… well, maybe some haven’t been as deserving. There’s no picking and choosing as to whom the masses will relate with, support, and follow with their admiration and, on occasion, even obsession. And I’m not certain there’s any formula that [...]
The Spirits of St. Louis
A few years ago, some dumb ass kid posted on the H.A.M.B. asking for advice about the most efficient path to automotive journalism fame and fortune. I giggled, snorted, and then replied – basically telling him that the Automotive journalism field was reserved for dirty whores, bums, and miscreants of the kind he would never [...]
A Tribute to the Edelbrocks…
I don’t know how I missed this tribute to Vic Edelbrock Sr. and Junior, considering that that it was made back in 2005. Obviously it was shot at least that long ago, as a number of the amazing legends of hot rodding being interviewed have now passed away themselves: Robert “Pete” Petersen, Bobby Meeks, Bob [...]
