Tim Hermes funded his first car like many budding hot rodders – he mowed lawns as a teenager to buy a ’68 Chevelle, a car that provided many lasting memories. Flash forward to today and Tim is the proud owner of one of the most sought-after
Good customs don’t fade away – they just get better with age. Bruce and Cheryl Conwell’s ’49 Cadillac, "WICKCAD" is a great example. It was the Goodguys 2018 Custom of the Year (see a full feature in the July 2018 Gazette) but still makes routine appearances
The coveted Barrett-Jackson Cup “Ultimate Best in Show” winner was announced on Saturday from the 2022 Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale auction block as part of the company’s celebration of 50 years of The World’s Greatest Collector Car Auctions. The winner, a 1936 Ford Roadster owned by Bob
We featured the 2022 America’s Most Beautiful Roadster winner earlier today but there was more than one big winner at the 72nd Annual Grand National Roadster Show this past weekend in Pomona, CA. The other major title that stirred a lot of buzz over the
The triumphant return of the Grand National Roadster Show this weekend brought with it a much-loved and longstanding annual tradition: competition for the prestigious America’s Most Beautiful Roadster award. Eleven contenders brought their A-game to Pomona and on Sunday night the towering 9.5-foot AMBR perpetual
Back in the 1950s, Jim Zerby built a 1936 Ford five-window coupe into an asphalt track racer and had a blast running the tracks around northern Indiana on the weekends. Back then, it was just another old jalopy to cut up and race, which was
When you own an award-winning hot rod, you tend to improve it around edges. Maybe you add new wheels at some point, or bigger brakes – that sort of upgrade. Martin Miller of had a different goal when he decided to update his 1932 Ford
When long-time Goodguys Rodder’s Rep Paul LeMoine watches the custom ’48 Chevy cab-over truck known as the Decoliner cross the block at the Scottsdale Barrett-Jackson auction later this month, he knows one thing for sure: The truck is sold. He just doesn’t know the price. [gallery
Young Brad Swaney learned a lesson about a build getting out of hand that many of us needed decades and multiple projects to understand: Building a daily driver can end up with a finished truck being too nice to drive every day. That is what happened
For most of us, our first ride fell on one end of the spectrum or another. Either it was a clunker worth forgetting, or something we wish we’d kept. For Gordon Noggle, his first ride fits into a third category: keep it long enough and
