Lions Gasser Gathering

The 2022 Lions Gasser Gathering at the Lions Automobilia Foundation, Lions Dragstrip Museum. What a day with new and vintage racers in the parking lot and in the museum. The Burkholder Brothers lit up their Altered Fiat for the crowd.…

Good Times Block Party April 2022

It was a great kick-off of the 2022 Season for the Good Times Block Party. Hosted by Cambra Speed Shop, Cyclepath Cycle and Blacktop Magazine, there was fun for everyone! The lot was packed with great cars and good friends.…

Guy Salazar Art

An ArtMarty Feature So I am walking around the 2022 Mooneyes New Years Party Car Show and Drags. My eyeballs popped when I came across Guy Salazar’s booth.  The vendor area is always cool with independent regional artists and makers…

YESTERDAY’S RIDE

Cool Old Stuff

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 …

53 Jazzy Rose

David marins 1953 chevy

The Marin’s 1953 Chevy Photos: Spike Marble, Story: Tony Colombini. The supervisor at the plant, an up and comer, the salesman, or a customer representative. That is who Chevrolet built this car for in 1953 and 1954. The guy who…

SOMEDAY

Mike Heim’s V-12 1967 Camaro Have you ever had a project that you thought you’d get to… SOMEDAY? Then that SOMEDAY comes 25 years later…  Mike Heim owns Quality Custom Rides in Lancaster, PA. He bought this ’67 Camaro when…

Diora – A Labor of Love

Adam Smith’s 1950 Chevy Fleetline Deluxe We have all been there, I imagine. You see something in the lines through the primer. You can envision a gold jewel emerging from the blacktop and rolling low and slow into the dappled…

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…

Party On Main Street

This video shows how we rock Main Street. Follow along to the live music from Tribute as they perform Metallica’s Enter Sandman with vignettes of the car show and Dean Engineering Top Fueler pleasing the senses. Every Friday Night, Dianne…

Garrett’s Truck

#KidWrencher Series PART FOUR Street Rod Ed sends in another update on his son Garrett’s 1940 Ford Truck Project.    Even during this pandemic it sure seems time is just flying by. Garrett Baldwin has finished up the frame prep.…

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…

THE UNLIKELY DRAG BIKE

Karl Ardo and Josh Winderman’s Custom Racer The Triumph Motorcycle Company started in 1902 and is considered by many to have manufactured some of the fastest and most beautiful bikes built. They produced bikes for the military; they’ve appeared in…