Visiting shops, garages, collections, museums of the famous and the neighbor. Behind the scenes look at collections such as Bruce Meyer, Price Automobilia, Petersen Automotive Museum, Automobile Driving Museum, NHRA Museum and more.
With a History of the Tail Fin Design On this Sunday Drive with the Mercifuls we land at a private collection of American Classics. If hooded headlights and finned tail lights are your thing, then this gallery is for you!…
Today we take a drive over to the Petersen Automobile Museum. Here are several of the exhibits ending with a really creative installation. We start off with “Best in Low” an exhibit of legendary lowrider icons of the street and…
A Blacktop Archive from Issue #27 of Blacktop Magazine In Memoriam: Sadly Randy passed away a few months after our visit to his Museum and the Hot Rod Shop. Mark Soltan asked me to ride out to Randy Haapala’s place…
A Father/Son Garage As I reflect on the “Good-Ol’-Days”, I get to thinking that we actually live in a wonderful time. A time where you can make friends with someone from a great distance. Such is the case here, I…
Ventura Highway led me to discover a hidden gem. I had the great pleasure to meet Maureen Magnuson today. I went up to Ventura to see my buddy Johnnie Martinez and he said, “Hey, while you are here, let’s go…
Some of you may remember this beauty of a ride below from our last issue. Derby’s 1939 Coachcraft Lincoln. After hearing his story and the cool old stuff he gets around, we had to make a trek on the Ventura…
We are honored to be included in the recent season of Garage Dreams on MotorTrend+. See the story behind Blacktop Magazine as father/son duo Tony and Billy talk about working together in the garage on their 1956 Ford Fairlane Club…
Installing the Differential and Gears at J & S Gear Company. This has been an interesting project. The closest I have ever done of something like this is when we replaced the rear end on my nephew Marcus’ #KidWrencher ’66…
Blacktop Magazine stopped by Dan Fink Metalworks to see what’s new at the shop. I met up with Owner John West who showed me around the clean shop. He was proud of the work being finished on a Rolls Royce…
