Items tagged with: hot rods and customs

Chet Herbert’s Beast IV redebuts fresh off its restoration to its original configuration

Photo courtesy NHRA Motorsports Museum. While it only took three weeks for Chet Herbert and his crew to build the Beast IV, Herbert’s last and most successful streamliner, Dan Webb’s restoration of t...

A Hine’s with “25 Varieties” – Oliver Hine’s 1933 Ford five-window coupe

Photos by Jim Coventry, courtesy Auctions America. Oliver Hine didn’t set out to build a custom that would set the show world on fire and continue to win awards nearly six decades after it was built....

Reminiscing – The “sleeper” Saratoga

1951 Chrysler Saratoga magazine ad. Period advertising courtesy of Lov2XLR8.no. For those of you who have never owned a 1951-’52 Chrysler Saratoga, you can’t imagine what great cars those really were...

Tax payback issue threatens Australian world land-speed record attempt

Artist rendering courtesy Aussie Invader on Facebook. Setting the world land-speed record requires highly advanced computer engineering models, precision machining, and plenty of derring-do. It also ...

Remembering hot rod evangelist Pete Chapouris

Pete Chapouris. Image courtesy of SoCal Speed Shop. Who knows how life might have turned out for Pete Chapouris had his chopped and flamed ’34 Ford coupe not graced the cover of the November 1973 iss...

Five car hobby predictions for 2017

Photo by Mr. Muggles. Thankfully, we’ve survived another trip around the sun, which means it’s time once again for our annual gaze into the crystal ball, which smells suspiciously of carb cleaner (re...

The Class of ’25, Part Two

Concept sketch by Clayton Paddison. Well, it happened. My inner contrarian lost out to practicality. If you can call it practicality to own a near-century-old car with the intention of driving it on ...

Hemmings Sunday Cinema – Italian bike racing in cinema, carburetor upgrade, Moving Violation

As with Harlo at The Chicane, we don’t follow most of the dialog in this trailer for the 1957 Italian flick “I fidanzati della morte,” but that don’t matter because the motorcycles and the racing are...

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1932 Ford roadster

Riley OHV-headed 1932 Ford roadster for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: The Riley Roadster sports a very rare Riley V8 OHV conversion kit The Riley motor was owned by Harold Joha...

Sensational Mercury custom shown at AACA Museum

Photos courtesy AACA Museum. We’ll stick our neck out here and salivate that this is one of most gorgeous modern customs we’ve laid eyes on in years. This incredible 1940 Mercury coupe is owned by Ja...

Four-Links – the hackable Seven, Ford’s X-8, bodged rebadges, Zlatko Cosmopolit

Hackaday, which normally focuses on Arduinos and other hardware hacking projects, recently examined the Lotus Seven and decreed it one of the most hackable cars. It’s always encouraging when the DIY/...

Bonneville Salt Flats wins IHMA’s lifetime achievement award

Photo by Mr. Nixter. Typically it’s a flesh-and-blood living person who takes home a lifetime achievement award, but the judges for the International Historic Motoring Awards, perhaps acknowledging t...

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1967 Volvo 122S

Hot-rodded 1967 Volvo 122S for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Very clean rust free , accident free Volvo 122S Amazon. original Black plate CA car. This car was built for perform...

Hemmings Sunday Cinema – Winter grands prix, papercraft rotary engine, million-mile Porsche 356, The Living Daylights chase

Whenever we see images of Mel Stultz and Bobby Green’s “Frozen Few” vintage-motorcycle ice racing, we are reminded of the Swedish Winter Grand Prix (and wonder why we don’t get invited to race old ho...

Four Links—Totally tagged Rambler, hot rod art of Stefan Marjoram, vintage filling stations, reviving a rusty Ranchero, and direct-injection flatheads

From Curbside Classic comes the interesting tail of an old-car owner who put his or her neighborhood vandals street artists to work preserving a ’61 Rambler American. Apparently the unidentified owne...

Items tagged with: hot rods and customs

Chet Herbert’s Beast IV redebuts fresh off its restoration to its original configuration

A Hine’s with “25 Varieties” – Oliver Hine’s 1933 Ford five-window coupe

Reminiscing – The “sleeper” Saratoga

Recommended Reading – Ed Roth’s Mysterion: The Genesis, Demise and Recreation of an Iconic Custom Car

Tax payback issue threatens Australian world land-speed record attempt

Remembering hot rod evangelist Pete Chapouris

Five car hobby predictions for 2017

The Class of ’25, Part Two

Hemmings Sunday Cinema – Italian bike racing in cinema, carburetor upgrade, Moving Violation

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1932 Ford roadster

Sensational Mercury custom shown at AACA Museum

Four-Links – the hackable Seven, Ford’s X-8, bodged rebadges, Zlatko Cosmopolit

Bonneville Salt Flats wins IHMA’s lifetime achievement award

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1967 Volvo 122S

Hemmings Sunday Cinema – Winter grands prix, papercraft rotary engine, million-mile Porsche 356, The Living Daylights chase

Four Links—Totally tagged Rambler, hot rod art of Stefan Marjoram, vintage filling stations, reviving a rusty Ranchero, and direct-injection flatheads

Taking it all in – a closer look at some of the vehicles from last week’s SEMA Convention

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1978 Datsun 280Z Black Pearl coupe

Esprit de hardcore: Pismo Race of Gentlemen 2016

As the Firestone Super Sports Wide Oval tire turns 50, a new radial version arrives

Gallery: On the ground at SEMA 2016

Reminiscing – That old 1949 Studebaker

Rolling Bones Hot Rods coming to the Saratoga Auto Museum

Four-Links – 2JZs in everything, West Coast Crosley meet, Year of the Unilamp, the leaded gas problem

ECTA begins search for new track after Amazon expands in Wilmington

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