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 ...
FIVA-lauded 1961 Alfa Romeo Giulietta SZ Coda Tronca prototype. Photo courtesy FIVA. While it makes exceptions for period-modified vehicles in its recently released Charter of Turin Handbook, the Fed...
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...
Photo by Casey Maxon, courtesy Historic Vehicle Association. After an extensive lobbying effort by dune buggy and kit car owners, the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles has put a halt to revoking dun...
Old favorites from movies and TV shows with an antique twist feature in this year’s Auto Art Advent. Images courtesy Stefan Marjoram Regular readers of the Hemmings Daily will no doubt be familiar wi...
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, ...
Santa brought the writer a 1923 Ford touring car body, which has been dubbed “Tilly,” thanks to the original plan to use a pair of Tillotson down-draft carburetors on the engine. The Tillotsons are n...
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 ...
My ’31 Ford speedster often gets neglected during the cold, dark winter months, but this time will be different. Here it is with its hood and radiator removed to make it quicker and easier for me to ...
In 1960, Don Wagers wooed his girlfriend, Shirley Maxwell, in his Cadillac V-16-powered 1929 Ford roadster. He cut 10 inches out of the frame and six inches out of the doors to accommodate the humong...
Rob Ida has carried on his father Bob’s passion for modifying and crafting hot rods, race cars, and other wheeled projects, and gained notoriety some years back for creating replicas of the famous Tu...
Mishmosh of Chevrolet, Ford, and fire truck parts titled as a 1936 Ford for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Like any proper English bastard, there’s a paradox in the parts. While...
1970 Meyers Manx. Photo courtesy RM Sotheby’s. While Texas state officials claim to be looking into the matter, the state’s DMV has outlawed any rebodied vehicles and has started to revoke titles and...
Looking to bring both spectators and American automakers back to the Indy 500, Indianapolis Motor Speedway president Eddie Rickenbacker proposed a series of rule changes in 1929 that would become kno...
Customized 1941 Cadillac Series 62 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This was built by me as a tribute car to what was being done in 1941 by shops like Coachcraft, Don Lee & ot...
Cars as musical instruments? Composer Ryoji Ikeda recently pulled together 100 modified cars atop a Los Angeles parking garage for an elaborate concert involving the cars’ stereo systems, horns, engi...
Electric-powered fiberglass-bodied 1927 Ford Model T for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This car is powered by a 90hp 120 volt electric motor. It uses 10 deep cycle 12 volt batt...
Bonneville-veteran 1940 Ford hot rod/racer for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Same owner since ’65, garaged since ‘75in dry desert, Yuma, AZ. Was a dry lakes & B’ville racer for...
Photos courtesy Mecum auctions. One depicts a sea voyage complete with krakens while another paints a picture of dueling wizards atop dragons. Others sport portholes of varying sizes along with spoil...
Aluminum-bodied 1956 Chevrolet Corvette road racing special for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Road Racing Special. In the genre of Old Yeller and Lister. All Aluminum body with...
Rob Gibson shoots tintype photos, which is remarkable enough, but he also does so out of a custom sidecar attached to his 1938 Harley, as we learn from this PetaPixel profile of Gibson. * Apparently ...
Raw aluminum Hagemann-built 1925 Ford boattail roadster for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Raw and Beautiful, truly a functional work of art and superior craftsmanship! This all...
Images are courtesy of Jeroen Booij, and from the Hemmings library Fans of the original BMC Mini have been educated, enlightened, and entertained by the excellent trio of “Maximum Mini” books created...
Photo from the Hemmings archives. Lay down a coat of gold first, then red atop that, then follow that with a clear coat with some red mixed into it and you get deep, delicious glowing paint known the...