Keith Layne has owned a variety of classic cars over the years, including a vintage Mustang and a Barracuda, but he’s a truck guy at heart. A ’59 Chevy pickup purchased for $125 and rebuilt in his grandfather’s garage was his high school transportation. The ’59
Any fan of vintage drag racing, especially the storied Gasser classes, has probably seen the NHRA-produced video that follows a pair of Southern California drag racers to the 1959 NHRA Nationals in Detroit. Along the way, the SoCal group meets up with racers from Texas
Think back to your first car. Perhaps when you were 16 and spent a few hundred dollars on a used Chevelle. Do you still have it today? Do you wish you’d kept it? Charlie Malone doesn’t have to answer those what-if questions. Charlie bought his '66
When he was a kid, Vinny Skandunas' grandfather would regale him with stories of when the family migrated from Milwaukee to California in the 1920s in their brand-new Model T Ford. Vinny was mesmerized when grandpa would tell him about rattling along plank roads and
When a custom car or truck owner has a specific concept for their ride, it’s important to find a builder who shares that vision. That’s what Dan Shea found when he connected with Jay Riggs at Riggs Fabrication on this retro-style 1929 Model A pickup.
In the rapidly evolving world of classic trucks, vehicle owners and builders are doing what they can to add a new twist to retro rides. Case in point is this concept 454 SS pickup from the “crüe” at Hill’s Hot Rods. Jason Hill was at
You don’t see a lot of custom stepside GM trucks on the road, which is one of the reasons Jimmy Shaw wanted to build this ’70 GMC into a road warrior. Jimmy has a couple fleetside C10s but decided to give the stepside some love
When Larry Roebuck was getting ready to retire from his career as an accountant, he started looking for a project to keep him busy. He had a ’56 Chevy before and felt that restoring another car would be good use of his time. As he
Vance Cryer and his brother Troy grew up riding around in a '34 Ford sedan that their father, Andy, built and loved. Once Andy retired, he wanted another project to keep him busy and found this '46 Ford rusting away in a Texas field. The
Ed “Big Daddy” Roth had a flair for the dramatic. Perhaps best known for his rascally rodent, Rat Fink, which served as the unofficial mascot of early-’60s hot rodding, Roth crafted a series of edgy and over-the-top customs that shook the hot rod world to
