MODEL BUILDING CULTURE

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 […]

TONKA vs NYLINT

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”) […]

Inside Blacktop Magazine #27

The Post-War Issue By Candie This Full Featured Fuel Fed Fanzine is bursting at the get-go with the incredible Angela Ryan! We start off this special issue with a jump on the blacktop for a road trip up Ventura Highway and visit with Magnuson Superchargers, we sneak into Derby’s Hide-Away, and then see a barn […]

Vintage Motorsport

When Sex Was Safe… Story: Tom Stahler – Photos: Adam Hosey On Saturday morning they came out of the coastal mist like a bolt of lighting from history… For a brief shining moment, it was 1961 again… When sex was safe and racing was dangerous. The songs of forty-three mid to late 1950’s sports racing […]

Wartime Y.O.M.

1941-46 California License Plates Here in California, collector car owners can register their car with period correct Y.O.M. or Year Of Make license plates. Like any beauracracy, there are certain rules to be met. In Article 8 Section 5004.1: (a) (1): An owner of a vehicle that is a 1980 or older model-year vehicle may, […]