– Gary Morin My boys at the Mercifuls Car Club host a weekly cruise on Thursday nights. The Cypress Cruise is at VJ’s Hamburgers on Walker St. just north of Ball Rd. in Cypress CA. The cruise night is right for friends, fun and frivol. At 7pm they have a raffle, 50/50, drivers raffle and […]
Aloha. Here’s where I may get a bit personal. I dig hawaiian kitsch. We recently joined Netflix at the house. Hawaii 5-0 is now in the top 5 “Recently Watched” programs. And, not the stupid new version, but the original from 1968. In fact, I recently repainted a patio table of a pattern I saw […]
An automotive circus. The OC Fairgrounds hosts many automotive events, Cruisin for a Cure, Labor Day Cruise, Good-guys Get-Together and many others. Last year was the first year for the famed SPEED channel favorite Barrett-Jackson Auction held at the Fairgrounds. This year the weekend was especially busy and we rolled to the event on Friday. […]
– Tony Colombini, photos: Billy Colombini This was the best damn show ever! There I said it. Grant and the boys should be held up to the heavens. I’ve been to a lot of bike events and the quality of vendors, bikes and people was absolutely awesome. For those of you who don’t know, Born […]
The Daggers OC Car Club hosted a car show at Bigs Grill in Fullerton recently. After hitting a couple of other events, I rolled in there early in the afternoon as the show was just getting started. I almost missed the show. As I pulled in the parking lot of Bigs, there were only three […]
Billet ‘67-’81 Camaro Fender Braces Even the smallest, most incidental parts on your car are targets for the Eddie Motorsports magic touch. The Southern California manufacturer has recently introduced a complete line of custom billet aluminum fender/core support braces for First and Second Gen Camaros. The complete fender brace assemblies are CNC machined from billet […]
Some of you recall our visit to the newly formed Long Beach Roller Derby last year, and this year we had to go again. The girls moved from flat-track concrete slab racing to an elevated banked wooden track, still under the Queen Mary Dome. We expect this time to be faster hard-hitting action! And we […]
A Vegas Hot Spot for Gearheads. I’ve mentioned this shop before. While on our way to the Viva Las Vegas Show we got a call from our Hub Buddy, Bad Ass Bob suggesting we stop in to his favorite shop in town and check out the cars he has. Quite surprised on the open invitation […]
It’s that time of year again when the biker nation gets together for what has been billed as the largest one-day motorcycle fundraising event in Southern California. The Rip’s B.A.D. Ride. In it’s 14th year, the BAD Ride has helped to raise over 6 million dollars for the American Diabetes Association! That’s incredible and the […]
In keeping a bit with an Italian theme this week at Blacktop Magazine we offer Dixie Rebelle! A 24 year old Leo from Fullerton, CA who is self-proclaimed as half Italian, half Redneck. We say ALL Betty-licious! Invalid shortcode After struggling through her childhood trying to find herself as a Goth, rocker, country, head-banger, punk, […]
How often have you hoisted your bike on one of those small “transmission style” platform lifts you got at Costco? I’ve done it many times and the fear of the balance being off and the bike come down on the garage floor or worst on me, makes me ponder for something safer. Take a look […]
It was several years ago that I first heard of The 401k Club Hot Rod Shop. This was in a time where hot rod shops were coming out of the woodwork. And now we see the survivors. The key to survival in this economy and industry is to do good work, at a reasonable price […]
