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Loaded Loads-up on Accolades
This heavily rodded 1929 Ford roadster pickup, dubbed Loaded, has been loading up on awards nationwide. photo courtesy of Goodguys Since making its debut at the Grand National Roadster Show in...
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Return of the bubbletop?
Gary “Chopit” Fioto’s Beatnik, a 1955 Ford reworked into a bubbletop, took home the $20,000 grand prize at last weekend’s National Rod and Custom Car Show. photo courtesy www.chopitkustom.com Perhaps...
View ArticleThree major rod shows over the next three weekends
At a time of the year when most collector car people have auctions on the brain, three major hot rod shows are set to take place over the next three weekends. First, the San Francisco Rod, Custom and...
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Big Winner in Oklahoma Hot Rod Show
There were 970 entries vying for one of the ultimate awards in hot rodding last weekend at the 43rd annual Hot Rod & Custom Show in Tulsa, Oklahoma, at the Expo Square Fairgrounds—$20,000 first...
View ArticleCustoms and bubbletops to invade Wichita and Tulsa for Starbird shows
He’s built some of the wildest custom car creations, and he’s certainly done more for bubbletopped cars than anybody in custom car history, and Darryl Starbird shows no signs of slowing down as he...
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Magnitude wins at Starbird’s
Sam Magarino’s Magnitude took the Go for the Gold award at Darryl Starbird’s 44th annual National Rod and Custom Car Show. photo courtesy Lobeck’s Sam Magarino came oh-so-close to winning the coveted...
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Four-Links – Ernie Adams revisited, Maratuech, Atomitron, saxomophone
* While we’re patiently waiting for Jeff Diehl’s full documentary on Ernie Adams’s dwarf cars, there’s this video that’s been making the rounds this week with a closer look at Adams’s dwarf Mercury. *...
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Li’l Coffin II, the full-size tribute to Dave Stuckey’s show rod, heads to...
Photos courtesy Barrett-Jackson. In the 1960s, there likely wasn’t a car-crazed kid who didn’t build a scale-model copy of Monogram’s Li’l Coffin show rod, the candy apple red Ford two-door sedan with...
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Fisher Body Craftsman’s Guild takes show on the road to GSL model vehicle...
Photo courtesy General Motors. While an array of handbuilt scale model vehicles that participated in General Motors’s Fisher Body Craftsman’s Guild contests makes for an intriguing display at any...
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