Bob Patlian’s 1971 Ford Pinto Resto-mod Sometimes a car just stops you in your tracks. Am I right? I am at the Historic Main Street Car Show in Garden Grove on Friday Night, for this special event with the Wienermobile…
Quickened Pinto
The Wienermobile
At the Historic Main Street Car Show I got a call out of the blue from Allison with the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile. She asked if it would be alright if they brought the Wienermobile out to our car show. She…
FARMHOUSE RACER
When you spend your days in the field watching the lemons and avocados grow, you get to wondering. For Jerry Friedrich, that wondering got him into racing and now deep in hot rodding. We took a jaunt off the Ventura…
Wilwood Disc Brakes Releases Starlite 55XD Lug-Drive Wide 5 Race Hubs
Wilwood Racing has engineered an innovative new Lug-Drive dynamic-mount rotor system specifically for the lighter, stronger Starlite 55XD Wide 5 hubs. The 55XD design shaves weight by mounting the forged aluminum rotor adapter closer to the hub’s reinforced center using…
Santa Ana Drags and Beyond
At LYON Air Museum Santa Ana Drags and Beyond exhibit at Lyon Air Museum. The Lyon Air Museum is within yards of where the original Santa Ana Dragstrip laid. This celebration of the first official drag strip in the United…
Bizzarrini 5300 GT Corsa Tours The U.S.
Bizzarrini 5300 GT Corsa Revival Deliveries Continue as Company Embarks on Significant USA Tour Covering Over 8000 Miles Through 18 States Deliveries of the Bizzarrini 5300 GT Corsa Revival – the most authentic interpretation of the legendary 5300 GT – continue to…
Pandemonium Express
Shiney Mike’s Hot Rod Shop Truck For as long as he can remember, Mike Grawunder has always wanted a hot rod truck. For his 65th birthday his wife Wendy was all about granting that wish. Mike is a retired…
Tom’s Long-Time Friend, his ’57 T-Bird
Today we meet with Tom Olson at the Big Wednesday Car Show and learn about his ’57 ‘Bird that he has owned since 1968! Can you imagine still owning your car when you were a senior in High School in…
Tokyo Rose
Karl Ardo & Josh Winderman’s Historic Born Free Build The story of this bike starts with an invitation to build a bike for the Born Free Show. Karl Ardo and Josh Widerman had great success with their previous collaboration a…
Man on Main Street – Stock v Custom
Tonight the Man on Main Street asks the question Stock vs Custom. Hear the fun as we hear from the party in the street at the Historic Main Street Car Show in Garden Grove, CA. We start with Jim buying…
Isky’s 102nd Birthday Celebration
At Lions Automobilia Foundation Museum Today we hit one of my favorite places in all of Southern California. The Lions Automobilia Foundation Museum. Always a good time, but today is even more special. We are here to celebrate a founder…
Sam’s ’50 Olds Rocket 88
When you roll up on this ride at the local car show, there isn’t anything that jumps out at you. Subtlety at its best. You dig deeper and get lost in the deep black skin, the chrome accents just hit…
Le Mans 100 – A Blacktop Book Review
How do you push the limits? Is it that short blast of energy railing down the quarter-mile? Is it pulling some G’s around the corners at Laguna Seca? Or are you struggling to keep two wheels on the ground as…
COOP’D UP RABBIT
Found on Craigslist, this VW Rabbit is a typical High School car. It did it’s job especially on those cold morning heading into Auto Shop before first period. The only chicks this rabbit caught were in the coop. It may…
Hunters and Gatherers
The Culture Around Collecting It has seems like a lifetime ago when I opened Blacktop Depot, an Automobilia Store that bought and sold; “COOL OLD STUFF”. All our patrons and consigners were a community. A community that dates back to…