We’ve got a fresh new video from SEMA with our own Dan Stoner. In this installment of our coverage from the 2019 show, Dan takes us to the Mopar booth in the Las Vegas Convention Center for a closer ...
It’s time for another video walkaround at the 2019 SEMA Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. In today’s installment, Dan Stoner is joined by Hemmings Editor in Chief Terry McGean for a look at the cars and tru...
The 2019 SEMA Show is in full swing, and we’re right in the middle of the action at the Las Vegas Convention Center. To give you a taste of the action back home, our own Dan Stoner took a walk of the...
The personality of any hot rod, at some point, is gonna come down to the choices made around the exhaust system. All photos by the author and Tim Conder/Conder Custom, unless otherwise noted. If you’...
In probably not the most shocking news, we’re doing something a little less expected for the seats of the Stoner T. All photos by Tim Conder/Conder Custom, unless otherwise noted. When I was a young ...
All photos by Tim Conder/Conder Custom, unless otherwise noted. Look, I want you good people to understand one thing about custom shops: you have no idea. You have no idea, no real understanding of t...
The car when we first got the Gotelli 392 Hemi located in its perch. “Although this is a Muncie M-21 trans with the stock bellhousing,” Conder explains, “you can see how the 392 (now mounted nearly 2...
Ted Gotelli passing the time between rounds in one of the earliest versions of his Fuller-chassis-ed fueler in the early ’60s. Dig those weedburners… Photo: Sherm Porter. All remaining photos by the ...
A pair of cruddy Vans and a vintage “Traction By Hurst” T-shirt graphic, along with a mocked-up rolled pan-slash-air scoop: a modern-day hot rod still life. All photos by the author, unless otherwise...
My T coupe and all its influences. When I look at this collection of cars that I’ve loved for the entirety of my own consciousness, I pause and just marvel at what this purely American phenomenon has...
When we realized we only had one headlight, Conder took it all in stride. This is the sketch on a piece of chipboard that he keeps piles of, deep inside Conder Custom, that finally solved the problem...
Getting there. They say that it takes 90 percent of the time to do 10 percent of the work and vice-versa. “They” say a lot, don’t they? All photos by the author, unless otherwise noted. Warhol claime...
One of the four mysterious photos Joe Gotelli – grandson of Ted “The Goat” Gotelli – dug out of a filing cabinet for me. While I had to find out what cosmic forces brought these elements together in ...
All photos by the author, unless otherwise noted. Know what one of the best things about a hot rod is? The motor, son. “Of course,” right? But the decisions that are made around the engine for a hot ...
The car at Conder Custom, its body hanging above itself, looking down like when you die and have one of those out-of-body experiences, but then come back to life and write a book about your experienc...
The car at Conder Custom in Sonoma, California. This is what it looked like before we conjured the exhaust setup. Can you dig it?!? All photos by the author, unless otherwise noted. Hot rodding has r...
The original sketch Tim Conder, of Conder Custom, made after we talked about life, love, cars, art, dragsters, the Munster’s Koach , the Phonebooth T , Ed Roth, Garbage Pail Kids, Krofft Superstars, ...
My first sketches of what I thought my 1928 Model A coupe hot rod should look like. The exhaust headers were the focal point, as I was trying to develop some dramatic elements of the car. All photos ...