It’s the winter of 1999 and I’m sitting in the pew of an old church in metro Detroit on a Wednesday night. It’s dark out, and I’m half-listening… continue reading »
33 CommentsOk, I’ve got a challenge for you: Watch this old Newsreel from the Oakland Roadster Show, and see how many of the cars you can positively identify. The… continue reading »
8 CommentsSomewhere in the greasy twilight of the late 1960s, a little rag called Popular Hot Rodding found itself in need of a mechanical martyr—a sacrificial beast they could… continue reading »
L.A. California, circa 1936: The height of the Art Deco era and Streamline design in America. It was a time of ultimate optimism as the Recession was fading… continue reading »
10 CommentsRight, so this article was supposed to go live early this morning. That was the plan. That was the mission. But then a strange thing happened—Wu-Tang announced a… continue reading »
59 CommentsYou know that feeling when you’ve been working on something for a long time—months, or even years—and you finally roll it out of the garage? That time when… continue reading »
26 CommentsBy early 1960s, hot rodding had moved from just the drag strips and speed shops, into mainstream teen culture in America. Television shows like The Nelsons, The Munsters,… continue reading »
81 CommentsToday’s challenge is a simple one, but it scratches that old itch—the same one I had as a kid flipping through the Thrifty Nickel, circling cars I’d never… continue reading »
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