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Hot Rod Legends Tuesday Time Capsule
Blackie Gejeian Shish Kabob Special T Bucket

Legends in Hot Rodding – Blackie Gejeian’s AMBR Winning T-Roadster, the Shish Kabob Special

July 1, 2025

Mike “Blackie” Gejeian lived a life worthy of several people. He experienced the Great Depression, survived WWII, and became a ground-breaking hot rod builder, dry lakes standout, show promoter, NASCAR driver, and yes, even a farmer. Gejeian hailed from just outside Fresno in central California’s San

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Hot Rod Legends Tuesday Time Capsule
Ed Pink

Legends in Hot Rodding – Ed Pink: The Life of a Powerplant Maestro

June 19, 2025

Writing about legends of hot rodding comes with a definite demographic risk. And lately it seems many of our legends are crossing the finish line, moving onto the great car show and drag strip in the sky. The latest, Ed Pink, arguably the most successful

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Hot Rod Legends Tuesday Time Capsule
George Poteet Sniper Rad Rides

Legends in Hot Rodding: George Poteet’s Savoy Shuffle – the Rad Rides Built Sniper

May 13, 2025

In our modern era of hot rodding, the late George Poteet commissioned some of the most influential customs, race cars, and street rods of all time. He was a visionary, a trendsetter, and a hard-nosed racer all at the same time. In his comprehensive retrospective on

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Hot Rod Legends

Legends in Hot Rodding: Gene Winfield, The Passing of a Customizing Icon

April 10, 2025

This is a special, if sad, Legends of Hot Rodding column, as Gene Winfield, whose customs and film creations dazzled literally hundreds of millions of people over seven decades, passed away on March 4, 2025 at age 97. Known to manyu as “Windy,” Winfield built not

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Hot Rod Legends Tuesday Time Capsule
Gene Winfield, goodguys, custom car, kustom

Gene Winfield – Idol Genius of the Silver Screen

March 4, 2025

Editors Note: Interview conducted and story originally published in February 2019 In Southern California, rods and customs enjoy a symbiotic relationship with the film industry. Movie directors are drawn to automobiles as cinematic and graphic devices. At the same time, a host of SoCal customizers have

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Hot Rod Legends
Legends - Rich Guasco 1929 Highboy

Legends in Hot Rodding: the Rich Guasco ’29 Highboy – Purple Reign, AMBR style

February 26, 2025

As a future hot rodder, Rich Guasco was born with a significant home-court advantage – his family owned a wrecking yard. Guasco, son of Italian immigrants, grew up during the early ’50s in Pleasanton, California (where Goodguys Rod & Custom also later came of age). As

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Hot Rod Legends
Harry Bradley

Legends in Hot Rodding: Harry Bradley – Designer of All Things Automotive

January 28, 2025

All automobiles, whether it be a hot rod, a custom, a production car, or a Bonneville streamliner, begin with a design. It could be scribbles on a napkin, a drawing on an artist’s sketchpad, or an intricate blueprint created on a CAD computer program. Before

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Hot Rod Legends
Gray Baskerville 1932 Ford

Legends in Hot Rodding – the Gray Baskerville ’32 Roadster – A Legendary Journalist’s Daily Driver

January 16, 2025

We profiled the prolific, wacky, and brilliant automotive journalist Gray Baskerville a while back. But Gray did more than pen memorable pieces in Rod & Custom and Hot Rod magazines, he also owned – and drove! – a full-fendered ’32 Ford hot rod roadster. The

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Hot Rod Legends
Roy Brizio

Legends in Hot Rodding: Roy Brizio — Car Crafter Extraordinaire

December 25, 2024

Sometimes, to recast a cliche, the spanner doesn’t fall far from the toolbox. In other words, who you came from influences who you become. A genetic imperative, as the scientists say. One clear example of this truism is Roy Brizio, the esteemed hot rod builder from

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Hot Rod Legends
Legends 1936 Calori Coupe

The 1936 Ford Calori Coupe – A Smooth Transformation 

December 19, 2024

The 1936 Ford falls between the 1929-1934 models favored by go-fast hot rodders and the classic, swoopy 1939-40 editions. Still, as hot-rod fodder, the ’36 Ford was no slouch. Case in point – the legendary custom three-window Calori Coupe, built by Jack Calori, has been

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