Category: Featured Person

Featured motorsports and kustom kulture personalities

Amber Won’t Quit!

You can tell at first sight this little green 1976 Datsun 620 truck lived a good life. For 45 years this tin can showed the years unashamedly. Little would you know this beat up Datsun truck means a whole lot…

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…

Marisol Herrera

Automobile Driving Museum Marisol Herrera is the Executive Director of the Automobile Driving Museum in El Segundo, California (Psst: it’s right around the corner from the Hot Wheels HQ).  The mission of the Automobile Driving Museum is to collect, preserve,…

The ArtMartyr Issue

Blacktop Magazine Special Print Edition #26 – The ArtMartyr Issue is chock-full of creativeness! We explore the world of Kustom Kulture with artists like Space Giant, Rebel 13 Photography, Wicked Lines Pinstriping, Dale Sizer, Boneyard Artillery, Trisha Turner, Doug DoRr,…

GIRL’s of Irwindale

GORGEOUS IRWINDALE RACING LADIES The Gorgeous Irwindale Racing Ladies (G.I.R.L.) is an organization that was founded by CEO Kelly Anderson on June 9th, 2020 to encourage women and bring them together in a predominantly male sport. The organization is led…

Inside Blacktop Magazine #25

Inside Special Print Edition #25 featuring the G.I.R.L.’s of Irwindale a group of racing ladies, artist Andrea Young is in our ArtMartyr column, Moto-Journalist Chris Gibbany, Director of the Automobile Driving Museum; Marisol Herrera and Lana Chrisman- Executive Director at…

Three Standout Customs

We present interviews with Long Beach Sultans Car Club members Bill Price, Ken Reason and Doug Vaughn about their Sixties Southern California inspired Customs, a ’65 Riviera, ’62 Chrysler and ’52 Chevy at the Sultans’ Long Beach K9 Officers Benefit…

What’s Up At The Daily Driver Project

A collaboration with The Daily Driver Project. Follow along with the conversation between Wes Nielsen of The Daily Driver Project (http://www.DailyDriverProject.com) and Tony Colombini from Blacktop Magazine as they discuss how Blacktop Magazine got started, how Daily Driver Project started,…

The Betty Hunter

ArtMartyr Gallery Presents the work of Chris Garcia. My name is Chris “The Betty Hunter” Garcia. My work is based around Vintage SciFi and Custom Car Culture. I also build sculptures such as Robots, Rayguns and UFO’s.  “The Betty Hunters”…

More Progress with Garrett Baldwin

#KidWrencher Series Part 3 The garage was a blazing this late winter. Garrett and his dad Ed did a lot of work on the truck.  I think they have made some great progress whereas Ed admits that they are hobbyist…

LEXI DEL REY

VP at El Rey’s Garage and Television Executive Producer So-Cal born and raised, Lexi learned how to appreciate the classics from her dad, who’s car collection was always changing. His automotive stable was constantly rotating through Lincolns, Studebakers and Chryslers,…