Bob Patlian’s 1971 Ford Pinto Resto-mod Sometimes a car just stops you in your tracks. Am I right? I am at the Historic Main Street Car Show in Garden Grove on Friday Night, for this special event with the Wienermobile coming into town. Well, after all the commotion of a 30′ Hot Dog cruisin in […]
At the Historic Main Street Car Show I got a call out of the blue from Allison with the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile. She asked if it would be alright if they brought the Wienermobile out to our car show. She is referring to the Historic Main Street Car Show on Friday Nights in Garden Grove, […]
When you spend your days in the field watching the lemons and avocados grow, you get to wondering. For Jerry Friedrich, that wondering got him into racing and now deep in hot rodding. We took a jaunt off the Ventura Highway and into the foothills of Santa Paula to see an incredible workshop barn and […]
Wilwood Racing has engineered an innovative new Lug-Drive dynamic-mount rotor system specifically for the lighter, stronger Starlite 55XD Wide 5 hubs. The 55XD design shaves weight by mounting the forged aluminum rotor adapter closer to the hub’s reinforced center using fewer mounting bolts. The new Lug-Drive system simplifies rotor mounting using a snap ring in […]
At LYON Air Museum Santa Ana Drags and Beyond exhibit at Lyon Air Museum. The Lyon Air Museum is within yards of where the original Santa Ana Dragstrip laid. This celebration of the first official drag strip in the United States when C.J. “Pappy” Hart, Creighton Hunter and Frank Stillwell commandeered an auxilary runway at […]
Bizzarrini 5300 GT Corsa Revival Deliveries Continue as Company Embarks on Significant USA Tour Covering Over 8000 Miles Through 18 States Deliveries of the Bizzarrini 5300 GT Corsa Revival – the most authentic interpretation of the legendary 5300 GT – continue to customers all over the world. This latest example, one of just 24 cars meticulously hand-built, […]
Shiney Mike’s Hot Rod Shop Truck For as long as he can remember, Mike Grawunder has always wanted a hot rod truck. For his 65th birthday his wife Wendy was all about granting that wish. Mike is a retired trucker who has a passion for polishing metal. The seductive, almost zen-like process allows all […]
Today we meet with Tom Olson at the Big Wednesday Car Show and learn about his ’57 ‘Bird that he has owned since 1968! Can you imagine still owning your car when you were a senior in High School in 1968? Tom can, his T-Bird has gone through a few iterations throughout the years as […]
Karl Ardo & Josh Winderman’s Historic Born Free Build The story of this bike starts with an invitation to build a bike for the Born Free Show. Karl Ardo and Josh Widerman had great success with their previous collaboration a Triumph Drag Bike, and were looking to build another similar but different scoot. Then word […]
Tonight the Man on Main Street asks the question Stock vs Custom. Hear the fun as we hear from the party in the street at the Historic Main Street Car Show in Garden Grove, CA. We start with Jim buying a “Custom” van directly from the factory, hear some more from some of the car […]
At Lions Automobilia Foundation Museum Today we hit one of my favorite places in all of Southern California. The Lions Automobilia Foundation Museum. Always a good time, but today is even more special. We are here to celebrate a founder of the hot rod industry Ed “Isky” Iskenderian on his 102nd birthday. What better way […]
When you roll up on this ride at the local car show, there isn’t anything that jumps out at you. Subtlety at its best. You dig deeper and get lost in the deep black skin, the chrome accents just hit the rather snubby looking roller into the stratosphere with rocket cues and adorned fins. Then […]
