Many years ago Randy Harris bought the perfect 1940 Ford pickup. It was on trend with billet wheels and a Chevy small block and it stole his heart. Unfortunately, it had also stolen the heart of the guy he bought it from, who came down
The ad execs at the now-defunct Pontiac needed a hook and got one from an unlikely source in advance of the launch of the 1969 GTO. Borrowing a one liner from the Rowan and Martin Laugh-In TV show (in which Sammy Davis exuberantly shouted “Here
The Chrysler Corporation never made a 1955 Chrysler Imperial convertible. But Wayne Davis of Southlake, Texas didn’t really care. He made his own and we have the photos to prove it! Exactly what would a 1955 Chrysler Imperial convertible look like had it ever been produced
The year was 1967. The Chrysler hemi was king of the drag strip and “slingshot” Top Fuel dragsters, which put the driver behind a nitro-burning time bomb, were all the rage. But there was a three-year period when drag racing’s poster boy Don “The Snake”
The Buick Invicta was a short-lived model with only five years in production from 1959 till 1963. It was Buick’s mid level model, fancier trim and more stainless than the LeSabre, but not quite as high-end as the Electra. In 1961 Buick produced 6,382 two
Robert Gallery grew up farm strong in Iowa. One of five children, Gallery parlayed the hard labor and sturdy work ethic he learned in his family’s farm fields into success on the football field at the University of Iowa, where his talent at left tackle
To most, purchasing a 420hp Audi R8 supercar from the factory is more than enough of a hot rod. But not to serious car guys like us. We want more. We want to tune, tweak, mod and hammer our cars, regardless of the fact that
When a Japanese Grand Touring car and World Rally Championship machine come together, they make a good marriage. In this case – the happy couple is a Subaru WRX Widebody. It’s obvious at first glance this Subaru WRX Widebody isn’t your typical daily driver. While it
Nestled in the back of a California shop surrounded by motorcycles, a hoist, and some old car parts, sits a piece of motorcycle movie history, The Wild One Harley Davidson. No red ropes, no lights, no million-dollar alarm system. Most would think it’s just an
By Roy Sorenson Four years ago, Ramon Coria found a 1937 Ford roadster that someone had purchased but never started to build. His wife saw the car and instantly said, “I have been saving some money, and I’ll pay for the roller. It will be my
