SEMA Show Awards

Innovations of Generations Story/Photos: T-Bone The SEMA Show features several areas of awards from new products to Hall of Fame. Different manufacturers also present awards such as the Mothers Shine Award. To start off the show early Tuesday morning is the New Products Showcase Awards. Of the 12 categories and close to 2,000 products up […]

Janine’s Purple Queen

Peter Ström was at it again. Photos/Story: Peter Stöm My name is Peter and I live in Sweden I am 49 years old, lives in a suburb of Stockholm called Södertälje, I have always changed and rebuilt bicycles, mopeds, boats, cars and motorcycles, has been difficult to have something that everyone else has, I have […]

Stromberg Launches “Barn Find” and Black Finishes

Stromberg releases new ‘Barn Find’ 97 with factory patina – and ‘Rolling Bones’ approval. Stromberg Carburetor has released a new finish for its popular Genuine Stromberg 97 model. Named, ‘Barn Find’ (part number 9510A-BF) it answers the call for a brand new product that won’t look out of place on a car with established patina. […]

Sportster Chopper from Sweden

Peter Ström Builds a Great Sporty Chop. Story: T-bone and Peter Ström,  Photos: Ulf Engborg Peter Ström sent in this bitchin rigid he built with a bunch of friends in Stockholm Sweden. Peter designed the frame that Calles Chopperdelar Sweden and Ace Performance set up. Peter’s buddy Kenta Falkered of Ace Performance helped him assemble the […]

Mini-Chop Part One

A Mini-Bike goes under the knife at Shocker Choppers Garage Photos/Story: T-Bone We picked up this Baja Desert Runner about a year ago and have been terrorizing our quiet neighborhood on slow weekends. In between time, we have been making slight modifications without any real plan in sight. The “tank” in the top of the […]

The Hippie Chop

Kenta Falkered Built in Sweden Photos: Stefan Boman, Story: Kenta Falkered Everything started when I bought a fork with turkflippers from a friend at the club. It stood for 12 years against  the wall waiting for the right project. Then I came across a frame and wheels that I received in payment of a customer, […]

OC Mecum Auction 2012

Familiar Cars Go Across the Block Story/Photos: T-Bone It was a gray friday and Billy and I decided to head out to the Mecum Auction just a couple of miles away from Blacktop Media’s Shocker Choppers Garage. We were greeted by Meghan Gaines who shared the daily sheet of cars going across the block today. […]

Lucky 7 Rolls on at SEMA

No Crap Game Here! Story: Rob Roberts, Photos: T-Bone, Model: Emily Sherer I’ve met Joe Leone from Lucky 7 Enterprises a couple of years back. They specialize in chassis products for 1932-40 Fords. This year their booth featured drop axles and spindles sets as well as a scale frame set up. They are a Canadian […]

Evapo-Rust at the SEMA Show

This Ain’t Your Pappy’s Snake Oil… Photos/Story: T-Bone, Model: Emily Sherer If you’re like us, and I believe you are, we like taking old rusty crap and making something cool out of it. And when a new product comes around that claims to be too easy to be true we get skeptical. At the recent […]

Holden8r Unveiled at SEMA

Photos: Billy, Story: T-Bone What do you get when you mix a Holden Ute, a Pontiac G8, Maloof, and a 2013 Camaro? Well, if you are Bernt Karlsson, you make the HOLDEN8R. Bernt Karlsson, most famously known as the powerhouse metal man at Hot Rods by Boyd, and now at The 401k Club Hot Rod […]