A Great Car Seen at All the Shows Our buddy Tom is selling his beloved ’33 Ford Roadster. It features a Gibbon body with all original Ford fenders and sheet metal. The car is road-tested with over 10,000 miles since…
Category: Featured Ride
Articles of hot rods, customs, classics, bikes and other rides.
The Bamber 40
A Slice of So Cal Drag Racing History In the early 1950’s Southern California was a hub for drag racing. From San Diego to the Central Valley, the air was filled with loud headers and tire smoke. Mike Bamber was…
BAD Bike Build – Assess Progress
The Bike Awakens from Hibernation. You learn more about a project than the tasks in front of you. The B.A.D. Bike Build project has taught us quite a bit about ourselves. Billy and I learned how easy it is to…
Imadgine
Ol’ White
BAD Engine Install
Caveman gives us his best! Story/Photos: Blacktop Staff What a beauty. Like he said, this thing is a jewel. You may recall, when we received the BAD Bike donor the engine was at Caveman’s garage. He is a builder and…
B.A.D. On The Road
T-Bone and Billy Show the Progress Photos/Story: Blacktop Staff We recently took the project on the road to show some of the progress. You may look at it and think that there’s not a lot there. We agree, but there…
America’s Dream Car
The 1960 DiDia 150 Our friend Chuck Penhall sent in this incredible web-find: The 1960 Di Dia 150 was a luxury, custom-designed iconic, handmade car also known as the Dream Car forever associated with its second owner, singer Bobby Darin.…
Avanti-full
A Custom Classic Story/Photos: Blacktop Crew There is something really cool that I am learning deep in this car hobby of ours. Enthusiasts come from all walks of life and interests and at this particular time in history we gather…
Building a Hot Rod Shop Truck pt. 2
Richard Graves’ Gets to the Details on his Truck Photos: Billy, Story: T-Bone The devil in the details. We stopped by Richard’s shop to see the progress on the cab-over truck he is building. He had the cab off to…
Forensic Bikeology
Ten Years Gone Photos/Story: T-Bone The B.A.D. Bike is a 1980 Harley-Davidson LowRider. As we begin to tear down what’s left of this highway carcass it’s easy to get lost in the stories this steel steed could tell. It appears…
Building a Hot Rod Shop Truck
Iconic Hot Rod Builder Richard Graves’ Shop Truck Photos/Story: T-Bone Richard is building a truck. It’s not his first and most likely not his last truck. This truck is not a hot rodded classic truck from Ford, Chevy or Dodge.…