Images courtesy Hbomb Customs, except where noted. Many moons ago, while composing yet another photochops post, I hemmed and hawed about including the above photo. It would have fit perfectly, though...
1947 Buick Super Eight custom convertible. Photos courtesy Barrett-Jackson. Barrett-Jackson’s Palm Beach, Florida, auction is an annual rite of spring that draw bidders and spectators alike from arou...
Seventies custom-car culture is being reinterpreted in some amazing ways… in Japan. Photos courtesy Sho Kogawa. Ah, the Japanese car scene. As in America, it runs deep and in a bunch of directions: J...
Dillinger, the ’41 Buick sedanette owned by Clifford Mattis. Photos courtesy Kahn Media and the Sacramento Autorama. John Dillinger, gunned down in July 1934 by Melvin Purvis and his FBI colleagues, ...
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...
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...
1933 Ford Renaissance Roadster, the 2017 Ridler Award winner. Photo by Marc Rozman, courtesy Detroit Autorama. It may resemble a customized 1933 Ford, but the Renaissance Roadster that captured the 2...
Building the Wall of Death – still image from video below. Mel Stultz, founder of The Race of Gentlemen, has recently completed construction on a new/old Wall of Death attraction, which will be on di...
Even without any provenance attached to it, this 1954 Oldsmobile 98 custom for sale on Hemmings.com is a good glimpse at how regular Joes went about customizing their rides in the late Fifties. It mi...
Photo by Sondre Kvipt, courtesy Kustomrama. Bill Hines had been around in the auto customizing scene for so long and remained so active it seemed as though he was immortal. While his legend will live...
A few cars from Customs by the Sea at Wildwood in 2015. Photo by Richard Toonkel. In 2014, online hot rod and custom encyclopedia Kustomrama debuted Customs by the Sea, a “traditional” custom car sho...
Los Boulevardos and friends gathered on a warm LA morning at the 6th Street Bridge to cruise historic Whittier Blvd on their way to an afternoon cruise-in at Legg Lake Park.
1972 XS650 by the water in Glebe. Wearing city shoes. Track California Sunrise by Dirty Gold. Full set of pictures here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/deuscustoms/sets/72157626695079434/ Email mikey@d...