An ArtMarty Feature So I am walking around the 2022 Mooneyes New Years Party Car Show and Drags. My eyeballs popped when I came across Guy Salazar’s booth. The vendor area is always cool with independent regional artists and makers showing their wares. A sucker for bright colors and colorful graphics, my eyes smiled as […]
Jim Simpson’s Cool Old Stuff Photos/Story: Mike Slade, Yep! That Mike Slade. Jim Simpson is one of the best known residents of Williamston, South Carolina. Jim has lived in this town which is one of those small South Carolina, towns that sits off the beaten path about ten miles southwest of Greenville, South Carolina. Jim […]
The Marin’s 1953 Chevy Photos: Spike Marble, Story: Tony Colombini. The supervisor at the plant, an up and comer, the salesman, or a customer representative. That is who Chevrolet built this car for in 1953 and 1954. The guy who has dreams of making it big in business, putting in his time, gettin’ things done […]
Mike Heim’s V-12 1967 Camaro Have you ever had a project that you thought you’d get to… SOMEDAY? Then that SOMEDAY comes 25 years later… Mike Heim owns Quality Custom Rides in Lancaster, PA. He bought this ’67 Camaro when he was 19. He drove it for years in it’s streeter condition. But he had […]
This year’s show will also feature an expanded outdoor Grand Daddy Drive-In, a celebration of the 90th anniversary of the ’32 Ford and “A Gathering of Hot VWs” showcase The Grand National Roadster Show returns to the Pomona Fairplex Jan. 28-30 with hundreds of the best hot rods, customs, lowriders, muscle cars, trucks and motorcycles […]
Adam Smith’s 1950 Chevy Fleetline Deluxe We have all been there, I imagine. You see something in the lines through the primer. You can envision a gold jewel emerging from the blacktop and rolling low and slow into the dappled sunset with your bride by your side. That’s what happened when Adam Smith was looking […]
Maxx’s Tribute Project Car modeling has been around since the late 1950s, and has been going strong ever since. Companies like Revell, Monogram, Aurora, AMT, MPC, and JoHan produced some of the best car model kits in 1/25th and 1/24th scales. Many of these offerings are still available today, as reissued kits. Original model kits […]
KBS Coatings Cavity Coater is the perfect solution for providing rust protection in hard-to-reach areas. Cavity Coater is a single step, super-penetrating corrosion inhibiting coating (CIC) designed for long term protection of all metal surfaces. It provides a self-healing film tested to render more than four thousand hours of salt spray protection; over 4 times […]
This video shows how we rock Main Street. Follow along to the live music from Tribute as they perform Metallica’s Enter Sandman with vignettes of the car show and Dean Engineering Top Fueler pleasing the senses. Every Friday Night, Dianne and Rod host the Historic Main Street Car Show in Garden Grove, California. Blacktop Magazine […]
#KidWrencher Series PART FOUR Street Rod Ed sends in another update on his son Garrett’s 1940 Ford Truck Project. Even during this pandemic it sure seems time is just flying by. Garrett Baldwin has finished up the frame prep. He needed to complete the welding of the tacked-in cross member. Then he jumped on […]
There are classic rivals in pop culture. Ford v Chevy, Coke v Pepsi, Marvel v DC. Today let’s dig into the quick history of Nylint and Tonka postwar toy manufacturers. The story actually starts with Nylint. In 1937 on a balmy late summer evening in Rockford Illinois, brothers Bernard and Ragnar Klint (“Barnie and Rags”) […]
Karl Ardo and Josh Winderman’s Custom Racer The Triumph Motorcycle Company started in 1902 and is considered by many to have manufactured some of the fastest and most beautiful bikes built. They produced bikes for the military; they’ve appeared in major motion pictures, winning many important races and setting a number of land speed records […]
