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…

Vintage Stock Car Racing

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…

A Sunday Drive

Rolling with Gerry and Cathy Orozco in their 1939 Pontiac What started out as a cloudy cool morning, turned into another great day out on the backroads with the family.  It’s time for A Sunday Drive.  Gerry Orozco and his…

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…

Seal-4-Good Gaskets from Patriot Exhaust Products

Seal-4-Good gaskets are by no means new to the industry, but they’re taking on a new look. PerTronix Performance Brands acquired Taylor Cable products in early 2021 and moving forward with their acquisition Patriot Exhaust will sell Seal-4-Good header flange…

Bruising The Blacktop

Don’t you just dig the projects where everything goes as planned? Can you tell me what that is like? Lately it seems that everything I touch just snowballs into a big deal. Case in point working on the Blacktop Bruiser…

Keep Your Rides at the Ready

What is the point of having a garage full of toys if you can’t play with any one of them at any time? Here is a great tip for you. Keep them batteries charged. Now I know some of your…

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…