Each morning in the hi tech, Tesla-rich territory of Menlo Park, California, John Laporga cuts through the clutter with his brilliant blue 1965 Ford F100. In this region of Apple, Google, Twitter and Facebook's world domination, John and his Ford are firmly weighted at the
Growing up in an era just before the tech boom got traction, Chris Hall dreamt of mechanical things, owning a ’68 Pontiac Firebird in particular. Why a Firebird? Well, when you grow up surrounded by cool Pontiacs, it's kind of embedded in your DNA. Should
Jim Jones has owned his 1975 Chevy Stepside Silverado since he purchased it new in 1975. After meeting him at a recent Canepa Cars and Coffee gathering, he was more than happy to meet up with us and show us what’s under the hood. He
San Mateo, California’s Chris Peters isn’t your average Mustang GT guy. He won’t obnoxiously rev on you at the light unless you ask him to. He tends to stay in his own lane. While his stanced out 1998 Ford Mustang GT looks like it will
The early bird gets the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese. A queso-riffic metaphor that applied to Vergil Dawson that time he accompanied his buddy Dave on a trek to Bakersfield to look at a dismembered body. What they discovered was an assemblage
As we inch forward through the new millennium, hot rodders have an opportunity to take a peek at new realities and to enter a 2018 Goodguys event. Recently, we asked some of the best illustrators in our industry to take a look past 73rd street
The Big Three Muscle Car Offerings from Ford, Chevrolet, and Dodge are locked in a battle for performance supremacy not seen since the Sixties-era Camaro, Mustang, and Challenger horsepower wars. American muscle cars have evolved into world class machines that far surpass any legendary muscle
If you can look at a shell of a building, see beyond the rubble, years of neglect and disrepair, and you have a good idea how to make it better than before, then you understand what Oregon City, Oregon contractor John Rydzewski does for a
Jesse Vaughn and his wife Shawn, owners of Level 7 Motorsports, are perfect examples of new generation hot rodders. They pull into the autocross with their muscular 1978 C-10 Square Body on a low-buck steel open trailer. Called “The Shop Truck” the Level 7 pickup
When Dodge offered the Challenger and Charger SRT Hellcat package in 2015, it was a shot heard round the performance world. With its supercharged 6.2 liter, 707hp V8 and 650 lb·ft of torque, all car guys (not just Mopar enthusiasts) took notice of the most
