When Ryan Korek says Korek Designs is a family business, he’s talking about more than the decades that he’s worked with his father. He is also referring to his customers. Korek’s best clients become long-time friends, even spending nights in his family’s spare bedroom when they
When your hot rod shop is located just a couple hours from Detroit, it’s natural to have a strong reverence for the muscle cars and classics that have rolled out of Motor City through the decades. That respect can be seen in every build that
If you’re lucky enough at a young age to know what you want to do in life, and you tackle the educational work to prepare for that journey, you are well on the road to reaching your goal. But, as most people know, your first
When many of us think about building a hot rod, custom, or street machine, we envision traditional processes of turning wrenches in a garage or welding and shaping steel in a fabrication shop. We think of time-honored tools, greasy work environments, and noisy manual procedures
Fort Worth, TX-based Goodguys Rod & Custom Association (Goodguys), the world’s largest hot rodding association and “America’s Favorite Car Show”, announced a strategic partnership and equity-stake investment in venture-backed Texas CCS Enterprise, LLC. Currently operating one location under the Texas Collector Car Storage and Owners Club
As we announced back in November, Goodguys is getting back to hot rodding roots with our 2023/2024 Grand Prize Giveaway vehicle – a ’32 Ford five-window coupe. We’re really looking forward to seeing this Eric Black-designed Deuce come together in 2023 at Streamline Custom Designs
When you’re out of work recovering from back surgery, and an unexpected phone call from a friend opens the door to 30 years of doing what you always wanted to do, you have to consider that a success. That’s the story of how Bobby Schumacher began
For years, the well-executed stitchwork from Paul Atkins Interiors and Hot Rods has appeared regularly in some of the country’s top award-winning street rods and show cars. His upholstery creations have set the custom-interior bar for nearly four decades from his shop in the small
About a 30-minute drive southwest of Salt Lake City, the small Utah town of Tooele is home to a small shop – Streamline Custom Designs – that produces head-turning cars, trucks, and hot rods. Barely five years old, Streamline has already built a number of striking
When you grow up in a family that operates a transmission shop in small, rural Lawrenceville, Ilinois, the chances that you’ll end up in the same business are pretty strong. For Mark Bowler, that path began early. “Since an early age I was attracted to hot
