Rodders to the Rescue

Joe Porey and Clint Powell share a great little event in our nations Heartland. Well you can officially call this 2nd annual car show  one for the dogs. The 2nd annual “Rodders to the Rescue ” For the Heart Of Jackson Animal Shelter in Holton Kansas. And it was a dog day of summer, summer is […]

Sunday Afternoon Photoshoot

What a beautiful Sunday, even with the clouds. To pretty of a day to spend doing nothing. Options, 1) go cruizin’, na option 2) get with a buddy that is also a photographer and do some shooting. Just so happens that he knows an aspiring pin up model and I have and a friend have […]

Pie Festival

Blacktop Midwest Correspondent Clinton Powell shares this great little show: Paul Kruse orchestrates this awesome car show in the the little town of Gypsum Kansas. The town population is around four hundred people. You could have fooled me that day. I would say a couple thousand may have been in attendance and at least 200 […]

Long Beach K9 Officers Benefit Show

The Long Beach Sultan’s do it again! There are certain shows in Southern California that are “must-see” events. Early in the show season the Long Beach Sultans host this annual show in a cool tree covered park behind a bustling shopping plaza. Quite the juxtaposition when you roll tight between a Walmart and Lowes Home Improvement store […]

Warbirds Show

Photos/Story by Clinton Powell – Watkins, Colorado Warbird, sounds like something from the SyFy Channel. It is a term used on the plains that fought in the sky’s during WW1 and WW2. This Warbird show has a twist. Cars from the early 1900’s to today were present and accounted for. The show was held at […]

Sparks On All Eight

Installing An MSD Ignition System In Our ’56 Fairlane Story: T-Bone, Photos/Video: Billy Colombini, Blacktop Media Network Don’t you just love it when your car is running at its peak performance? For the past several weeks, though, the old 390 has been running a bit rough. It got real bad when I took her to show […]

Battling Heat Issues on a Harley

On our 2004 Harley-Davidson Road King sidecar rig, heat becomes a real issue. A couple of years ago we punched out the motor a bit and added high-compression heads at HB Hot Rods and Hogs. This mild build-up and the added weight of the sidecar makes for a hot running bike. Especially in the stuck-and-go traffic in […]

Hemi Performance and Economy

Daily Driver Report – Programming Power with Hypertech Story by Hot Rod Hilda Hi everyone, this is Hilda, the Blacktop family adopted me from Angel City Pit Bulls and NKLA a couple of months ago and this is the first article I get to write for Blacktop Magazine. They call me Hot Rod Hilda, and I guess […]

KC’s Paint Shop

Photos: Rich Pierce We recently stopped by KC’s Speed Shop to take some shots as well as to catch up with him and see what he’s been up to. KC Mathieu is his full name and is best known for his work that has been seen on Discovery Channel’s hit reality show “Fast n Loud” […]