The 2024 Grand National Roadster Show was one of the best in years! Each year Building 9 at the Fairplex is filled with a themed exhibition. Last year it was Keep on Truckin’ and of course that was an amazing…
Street Machines; Then and Now at GNRS
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Rides and Cruises
Taking a Lap at Wrangler’s Junction
Cruisin La Verne Holiday Car Show
The show that was supposed to be rained out. We heard it all week long. The first storm of the 2023/24 El Niño of Southern California. Friday into Saturday rain. From 1-3 inches. Might not sound like much for some…
Kevin Studer’s 1937 Ford Coupe
Today we catch up with Kevin Studer with his bitchen ’37 Ford Coupe at the Historic Main Street Car Show in Garden Grove. Really nice polished lacquer blue paint, dropped with bags, rolls on Wheelsmith wheels, and powered by a…
Randy’s Hot Rod Garage
In Memoriam: Sadly Randy passed away a few months after our visit to his Museum and the Hot Rod Shop. Earlier we shared an article from Blacktop Magazine issue #27: Randy’s Drag Racing Museum. It showcased Randy Haapala’s NHRA Collection.…
Randy’s Drag Racing Museum
A Blacktop Archive from Issue #27 of Blacktop Magazine In Memoriam: Sadly Randy passed away a few months after our visit to his Museum and the Hot Rod Shop. Mark Soltan asked me to ride out to Randy Haapala’s place…
Two-Stroke Trouble
An ArtMartyr Short Story While most of Southern California was in a drunken, coke-infested nightclub haze in the 70’s and 80’s there was one family that escaped that scene and took off on the weekends to hit the sand at…
FARMHOUSE RACER
When you spend your days in the field watching the lemons and avocados grow, you get to wondering. For Jerry Friedrich, that wondering got him into racing and now deep in hot rodding. We took a jaunt off the Ventura…
Father and Son’s Built GTO
Pat Tobin’s 1965 GTP 434 After his 1963 graduation from High School a ’64 Tempest caught the eye of Pat Tobin. He knew someday he would have one. Four years later he was drafted. Upon leaving the military in 1970…
Hiwaze: The 1970s
I am working on a couple of different articles; History of Sidewall Tire Design and How Hot Wheels Taught Me About Stance. The two separate ideas land in one solid place in time. The 1970’s. Jacked up cars with raised…
Hiwaze: The 1960’s
We just finished up our first two installments of Hiwaze with the 1940’s and the 1950’s. Today we get into my time; the 1960’s. Although, I think I was born a couple of decades too late, I wouldn’t change it…
Hiwaze: The 1950’s
Car Clubs bring safety and performance to Hot Rodding. Here’s another cool movie I found on the US Auto Industry channel on YouTube for our Hiwaze column. It appears to be a PSA from 1953 called: “The Cool Hot Rod”.…