The 5th Special Print Issue is now available! Click on the photo to preview the entire magazine. You are sure to like it. In this issue of Blacktop, The Magazine we follow the restoration of a GM Futurliner at Kindig-it Designs in Salt Lake City. We meet with George Hood, our neighbor who builds and […]
Story: Kenta Falkered (submitted by Peter Ström), Photos: Stefan Boman Everything started when I saw Phantom of the Opera on TV. A bit later, I went to the theater and saw Phantom of the Opera live. Now, I went on with the building plans for a new chopper so the idea of The Phantom was […]
Ain’t No Sad Songs On A Banjo Photos/Story: T-Bone For many of us gear heads half the joy of working on our cars is actually driving our cars. Who’d a thunk it? Well, when you are behind the wheel we gaze over the big circle on the road ahead. In-fact, in driving school they say […]
A 3 Generation Falcon and a Survivor Belvedere Story: Tony Colombini, Photos: Supplied by Erica, Mitzi Valenzuela, Shiver 2 See U For most of us and especially the younger set, a love of classic cars and hot rods are passed down to us from an older brother, father, uncle or such. Recently I met a […]
Installing an AIRAID Intake System Photos/Story: T-Bone Not to be outdone, Billy installs an AIRAID Cold Air Dam Intake System with the SynthaMax non-oiled air cleaner on his truck “Blacktop Baller”. Last month you may recall we installed a different brand on our similar shop truck a 2005 RAM 1500 Magnum Hemi. For Billys truck, […]
Rolling through the halls at the Easyriders 2013 Bike Show Tour. Story/Photos/Video: T-Bone Is it just me or do you think that bikes belong outside, in the sun with speeding blacktop below them? These bikes are pretty enough and I have seen a couple on the highways and biways of Southern California, but for the […]
Bench Racing with T-Bone I enjoy working on a variety of projects. I enjoy working with my hands and being active. So why am I so lazy when it comes to getting the right tool for the job? You know what I’m talking about. Laying underneath the new project and trying to dislocate a stuck […]
Rolling over to hang out with Dan from Chop Cut Rebuild. Story by T-Bone Potter and I rolled the ’56 over to Dan Woods’ house to help install his cool new Max Jax Lift. Check out the fun in Episode 1 of Dan’s Garage.
Protecting our bars with Bar Cuffs Story/Photos: T-Bone I seem to always find something new at the swap meet. And today was no different. I met Adam Ewles who invented Bar Cuffs. A simple table and banner grabbed my attention (pun intended). Bar Cuffs help preserve the finish on your handlebars when using tie-down straps […]
Have you made the trip? Photos provided by Bob Walton and Sal Santoro, Story/Book Review by T-Bone In the Fall of 1994 I took the train from Southern California to Albany NY. The job was to ride with Billy in his Dodge van, towing his shovelhead with sidecar rig out to So Cal for the […]
Installing an AEM Brute Force Air Induction System. Pics/Story: T-Bone Check out the video at BlacktopTV! This is the first in a series of articles to come this year where we update our shop truck into The Blacktop Bruiser. First the skinnies on the truck: 2005 RAM 1500 5.7L Hemi standard cab with 43,000 miles. […]
This is one of those incredible stories that we love to share. Story: T-Bone, Build Photos: Sapers Family, Finish Photos: T-Bone It all started early one Saturday morning at Donut Derelicts. Right in front of the donut shop was a pretty clean ’32 Ford Tudor. It had the ubiquitous 350 GM crate motor, yet I […]
