The World of Speed Museum is Portland, Oregon’s motorsport mecca. Portland is known for many things — progressive politics, bike commuters, a brew pub/pot shop/coffee house on every corner, hipster overload, and of course, the TV series Portlandia, which mocked all of the above virtues
East Bay Muscle Cars was founded on Steve Keefer’s insatiable desire for fast cars. A veteran mechanic for BMW, he learned the fine art of blending horsepower with precision handling and balance – a hallmark of the beasts from Bavarian Motor Works. When it came
Sid Chavers is hot rodding’s signature stitch man. He has been sewing things for nearly 55 years, hot rod upholstery accounting for the last 42 of those. Just barely a teenager, his uncle taught him how to sew using an old Singer. Being industrious and
The Hot Rod Garage in Oklahoma has been doing things the right way for over 20 years now. “What better way to make a living than to do what you love with your family?” Those words spoken by Jason Smith of the Hot Rod Garage in
Steve Frisbie, founder of Steve's Auto Restorations in Portland, Oregon, is an unassuming sort. Quiet, serious, studious. With eyeglasses and a full-beard he projects the appearance of an academic, which, when you think about it, he is. But rather than mastering French Linguistics, he majors
Florida’s Velocity Restorations began in 2006 when Brandon Segers bought then restored his first Ford Bronco - a 1969 model. He had long admired these wall-climbing machines made famous in American pop culture way back when Ted Nugent was filling stadiums across America in the
The John Mumford collection is a museum yet it’s not. It’s a private collection by a man who has been obsessed with hot rods and customs since his childhood. Mumford, an AMBR-winning rodder, collector and retired venture capitalist puts the same zeal into his passion
We recently spent a day in Guasco’s garage, as in Rich Guasco - the man behind “Pure Hell.” Rich’s 1932 Austin Bantam-bodied AA/Fuel Altered is one of history’s most prolific drag racing machines – a car that set world records and made legions of fans
KC Mathieu, the boss man at KC's Paint Shop, dedicated over three years of his life to starring on a reality TV show, but now the body-and-paint expert is able to devote his time to the things he loves most: his family and his Fort
Editor’s Note: In this countdown series we are reviewing our favorite ten stories of 2017, stories you may have missed or enjoyed so much you wouldn’t mind seeing them again. We have been here just seven and a half months but it seems like much
