WE’RE BACK! I know it’s been a way-too-long hiatus between chapters of the Stoner T, but that’s just par for the course with this car. Since the day I started collecting the pile of parts that ultima...
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 ...
The car with the motor in it, as we size-up what it might’ve looked like with a 6-71 roots-type supercharger and an Enderle “bugcatcher” mechanical fuel injection setup. All photos by the author unle...