A Blacktop Archive from Issue #27 of Blacktop Magazine In Memoriam: Sadly Randy passed away a few months after our visit to his Museum and the Hot Rod Shop. Mark Soltan asked me to ride out to Randy Haapala’s place with Cool Running Camaro’s. They were meeting in San Juan Capistrano to ride over Ortega […]
The Wild Indian Photos/Story by Mike Slade I originally pick up the assignment to shoot the feature on this Gober Sosebee 39 Ford coupe race car when I was covering the 1988 Daytona 500 for Circle Track Magazine. After getting to Daytona that week I headed over to the Circle Track Trade Show to catch […]
An ArtMartyr Short Story While most of Southern California was in a drunken, coke-infested nightclub haze in the 70’s and 80’s there was one family that escaped that scene and took off on the weekends to hit the sand at Rosarita Beach two hours south on Hwy 5 and into Baja California. A small beach […]
A RESTORED ORIGINAL KAR KRAFT ASSEMBLED PONY Some call them Grails. You know, the one car. The car they always dreamed of. In this case Jim Simpson’s ultra-rare all original muscle car. This is a highly restored, fully documented, very original, 1969 Boss 429 Mustang. It is one of the 93 rarest, Raven Black, Boss […]
A Father/Son Garage As I reflect on the “Good-Ol’-Days”, I get to thinking that we actually live in a wonderful time. A time where you can make friends with someone from a great distance. Such is the case here, I first met Albert Traille on a phone call interviewing him about his deuce roadster for […]
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Ventura Highway led me to discover a hidden gem. I had the great pleasure to meet Maureen Magnuson today. I went up to Ventura to see my buddy Johnnie Martinez and he said, “Hey, while you are here, let’s go see Maureen.” I was game and he said they have a museum at the shop […]
A Brief History of Raymond Loewy Associates “Never Leave Well Enough Alone.” Raymond Loewy When I was studying design at Laguna College of Art & Design in the 1980’s my dad gave me a special edition magazine that featured American Design of the 1930’s through the 1970’s. One of the four articles in this 50-page […]
A Manuel Muller Restoration from the Blacktop Archives. Have you ever been to an event and all of sudden the room get’s silent, the people disappear, and a bright light hits you in the eyes? This happened to me the other day. I was stumbling through the Whitewall Nationals and this blue baby stopped me […]
Tonight on Man On Main Street we ask our friends what is their favorite engine. Enjoy the fun as we stroll Main Street and learning about some of our friends favorite engines. At the head of the street we have Dawn Cude, who didn’t make it into the video with audio issues, but she definitely […]
Hundreds of Custom Trucks, Vans and SUVs Take Center Stage at the Inaugural Grand National Truck Show The West Coast’s premier truck show will host incredible customs, classics, local entries, a cornhole tournament and fun for the whole family The inaugural O’Reilly Auto Parts Grand National Truck Show will celebrate trucks, vans and SUVs of […]
Kasia Jones’ 1954 Studebaker Commander Do you believe in love at first site? For this car gal, love was in the air when she first saw this Studebaker two years ago. The lines were far ahead of the times in the mid 1950’s. Just take a look at the cars the big three […]
