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...
1968 Molzon Corvair. Photos courtesy Bonhams Auctions. In 1963, GM designer William “Bill” Molzon set out to build a car of his own, with some rather ambitious goals: It would accelerate faster than ...
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...
Some thoughtful modifications make this 1965 Austin-Healey Sprite Mk III more fun in every way. Photos by author. The British Motor Corporation would have had to have been mad to have offered a car l...
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 ...
Circa 1908 Prinz-Heinrich Benz. Photos courtesy Bonhams Auctions. Designed to compete in the Prince Heinrich Tour, a multi-day, 1,200-plus-mile event that wound through Germany, Hungary, and Austria,...
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...
Photos courtesy Bonhams. Not intentionally, of course, but the brothers Santler couldn’t help but break existing British road laws when they first ventured out in the little car they called “Malverni...
Images courtesy Barry Gremillion. Stolen, abandoned, slated for the scrap heap: Certainly not the fate Bill Cushenberry imagined for what was to be his crowning achievement, the Silhouette II Space C...
Photo courtesy RM Sotheby’s. Duesenberg pretty much undisputedly sits atop the heap as the most luxurious, most exclusive, and most storied American carmaker to have existed, all the more remarkable ...
In a capitalist country, everything is for sale, right? Jason Sales travels the country with a film camera to document the things that aren’t for sale, the things that people for one reason or anothe...
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...
Hmmm, you’re thinking, a Chevrolet tractor? That was our reaction too when Diecast Direct’s Logan Skeele sent us these photos shot at Southern Indiana’s Lanesville Heritage Weekend in Lanesville, Sep...
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...
Nissan’s doing something interesting in Australia. Rather than running their vintage race cars past grandstands full of spectators, they’re packing the spectators onto buses and running both the buse...
Rob Ida’s Tucker Torpedo body. The wooden buck was based upon a 3D scan of the original scale model. Images courtesy Rob Ida unless otherwise noted. Before there was a Tucker 48, there was a Tucker T...
Photos courtesy Crosley Automobile Club. You all know Paul Gorrell by now. Built that Crosley sign-turned-scooter. Owns the most complete collection of Crosley prototypes. His latest creation remains...
Photos courtesy Joe Bortz. No coincidence that the nose of Brooks Stevens’ Die Valkyrie concept car not only had the shape of a giant V but also a smaller V-8 emblem within the V: He wanted to make s...
Handbuilt 1962 Hatch Park Special for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This vintage racer has seen plenty of racing action. Raced in USRRC and SCCA, SCCA C modified Champion. Nort...
Images courtesy Geoff Hacker. Famed auto design instructor Strother MacMinn might not have directly built any of the Le Mans coupes he intended to compete at the race of the same name, but he left be...
Image courtesy The Race of Gentlemen. It takes a big man to admit when he’s wrong, especially knowing the naysayers will be quick to crow, “I told you so.” But that’s exactly what Mel Stultz, founder...