Featured motorsports and kustom kulture personalities
Jim Simpson’s Cool Old Stuff Photos/Story: Mike Slade, Yep! That Mike Slade. Jim Simpson is one of the best known residents of Williamston, South Carolina. Jim has lived in this town which is one of those small South Carolina, towns that sits off the beaten path about ten miles southwest of Greenville, South Carolina. Jim […]
MAGIC HAPPENS ON THE TRACK My neighbor had a 1966 Ford Galaxie sitting in his driveway for a good couple of years. I would pester him, to gut it and build it into a replica of a NASCAR racer. It wouldn’t take a whole lot since the drive train was good, it was the trim […]
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 for a whole lot of people. In 1976 Stephanie Thompson’s dad Ralph Long bought it […]
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 […]
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, exhibit and ride in historic vehicles. They use the collection to present educational opportunities and […]
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, BOMONSTER, and James Owens. Also in these pages we have our Daily Driver Report, #KidWrencher […]
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 by Amber Marquardt, President, Tatiana Weiss, Vice President, Nikki George, Race Captain, and Tanya Toothman, […]
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 the Lion’s Dragstrip Foundation and Museum, SEMA SBN Woman of the Year: Jenna Jefferies and […]
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 Cruise-In. SEE! Bill Price’s 1965 Buick Riviera MARVEL AT Ken Reason’s 1962 Chrysler New YorkerBE […]
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, Back to the 70’s, The Home Wrencher, What’s Next for the Daily Driver Project, What’s […]
Paul and Jenna Bosserman open their Old Anvil Speed Shop up for an Open House Celebration on Halloween. Starting in the afternoon, Paul and the gang are cooking up “Yard Bird” which is apparently a North Carolina tradition they brought with them when they chose Southern California as their home. A great couple who share […]
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” is a brand I started back in 2009. I’ve always lived that 40’s, 50’s lifestyle, […]
