Northern Showdown: The Lower The Better
I touched on it briefly in my last guest post, but since this one is going to remove any doubt about the matter, I might as well come out and admit it: I’m a low car kind of guy. I’ve liked ‘em low for...
View ArticleCool Cars & Loud Noises: I’m 10 Years Old Again
Where was the spark? The point where you stopped just liking cars and began to love them. For me it came around the age of 10. Thanks to my dad, I’d been exposed to cars since birth, but it wasn’t...
View ArticleSEMA: A Truckin’ Good Time
I’m not exactly sure what the stats are, but from just walking around it seems like at least half of the vehicles at the SEMA Show are pickup trucks or off road vehicles of some sort. For newcomers it...
View ArticleC-10R: The Chevy With A Hint Of Zonda
What are some of the most impressive things you can do with an automobile? You can bring a rusting hulk back from the dead with a full factory restoration. You can take a car that was already great...
View ArticleA New Way Of Speedhunting
When we lock down the events we’ll be attending throughout the year, there’s always many familiar places and gatherings. Goodwood. The SEMA Show. Tokyo Auto Salon. Cars & Coffee. They’re all...
View ArticleTwice The Fun In A Turbo ’58 Apache
Earlier this week we showed you an unconventional ’36 Ford from Hale’s Speed Shop that used a turbocharged LSX for power. Well, sitting just a few feet away was an equally-cool 1958 Chevy truck with...
View ArticleDetroit Roots & Japanese Soul
Japanese car culture simply kicks ass. There’s no easier way to put it. I keep worrying that there’ll come a time when I visit Japan and realize I’ve seen all there is to see and that’s there’s nothing...
View ArticleForward Control Fandango
That intro might appear somewhat long-winded and irrelevant, but to give it some context, the last time I was sat trackside watching these exhibitions of excess circulating a close section of tarmac...
View ArticleSR-Powered Mazda Pickup: When Drift Car Meets Minitruck
The base vehicle is a left-hand drive, extended cab Mazda B-Series pickup, and while the stance is pure custom minitruck, this one has actually been built more in the vain of a high-end drift car. The...
View ArticleStraight Outta ’89: RX-7 Meets Pickup
The first is a 1989 Mazda B-Series pickup truck that was originally built by famed rotary tuner Racing Beat as a special project for Mazda USA back in the late ’80s. Dubbed California Haulin’, the...
View ArticleThe 1000hp+ Desert Rat
Loren doesn’t even have a Facebook account and I am not sure he even owns a computer. Tracking down this Arizona local to shoot his truck was an adventure in itself. Loren’s custom automotive life...
View ArticleStock & Drop: Syndicate Series 01
Every genre and marque of vehicle has a following, some niche and some widely known. Classic Mustangs, ’32 Fords, Volkswagen Beetles – broadly speaking these are a few of the biggest. Classic Chevy...
View ArticleThe REO Speed Wagon Rat
While I was vaguely familiar with the REO Speed Wagon vehicle, I certainly didn’t recognize the example I found at Auto Club Famoso Raceway during its famous March Meet last week. But then again, Bob...
View ArticleA Chevy That LUVs The Quarter Mile
That’s why I greatly enjoyed seeing Scott Bisel’s Arizona-based B/Gas Chevy LUV pickup at this year’s March Meet in Famoso. An acronym for ‘Light Utility Vehicle’, the LUV was engineered and built by...
View ArticleAn American Pickup Truck In Japan
Love for American pickup trucks extends much further than the 50 states too, and when I came across this super-clean Chevy C10 at the recent NS Rounder Car Show in Chiba (main post coming soon), I knew...
View ArticleRace Car Hauling, Streamliner Style
But occasionally you’ll find folks that take their hauling setups to the next level. That’s the case here. The rig was built by Rich Roberts, the same guy who built the altered wheelbase Plymouth from...
View ArticleThe Ultimate Shop Truck
That’s definitely the case with this 1966 Chevrolet C10 named ‘Tiffany’, built out of Classic Car Studio in St. Louis, Missouri. This year’s SEMA Show has turned up some stunning four-wheeled...
View ArticleElegance Plus Utility In An Old Chevy
While I’m no fan of the lifted, chrome-laden ‘bro’ rigs that are lined up outside of the show, there’s much more to the trucks of SEMA. As an example, I want to show you this ’68 Chevy C10 owned by...
View ArticleGT-F100: The Muscle Truck That Never Was
When customizers delve into alternate history and attempt to create vehicles that the factories didn’t, the results are usually quite cool. For example, imagine if Shelby and Ford had decided to build...
View ArticleEuro Tuning Meets Old School Americana
Earlier this decade, the Ford Motor Company employed a dramatic shift in its global strategy, one that would include shared platforms between the American market and the European market. And now,...
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