An Auction of Hot Rods and Some Outrageous Customs

RM AuctionsThe 1966 Ed Roth-designed Druid Princess.The 1966 Ed Roth-designed Druid Princess is a classic custom car to die for. And luckily for its new owner, it comes equipped with its own coffin. Coach-shaped and coffin-trunked, the Druid Princess is one of dozens of hot rods, dragsters and wild custom cars to be sold tomorrow, during the “Icons of Speed and Style” auction held at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. Some of the cars, like the supercharged 1961 “Big John” Mazmanian

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Create Your Dream Ride at Hot Rod School

Hot rods have become very popular in recent years. Car shows are filled with beautiful examples of restored and custom cars, and car clubs abound in almost every major city. Most car enthusiasts would agree that the most exciting part of restoring and customizing your own hot rod is doing the work with your own two hands, yet many car owners fear that they don’t have the knowledge to do the work well. Here is where an education from a hot rod school can help, by teaching you everything you ne

Get Shorty: A Mega-Gallery Of Short Car Compensation [Custom Cars]

Before young men got obsessed with turning Civics into M5s , they were forced to use actual creativity when customizing automobiles. Take three feet or more out of the wheelbase and you have the shorty car . Nobody knows precisely where or when the first shorty car was made, but it appears to have correlated with the hot rod movement in the ‘40s and ‘50s before moving on to more successfully adapt vans from the ‘60s and ‘70s. Shorties were never a huge movement due to the obvious reasons; ha

Stuff I read. . .Part 1

I've always made it a point to read weird, surprising, off-the-wall stuff of various sorts. Possibly my way of thinking has been shaped by my recreational reading. When I served as a pastor, I subscribed to Rolling Stone (a few church leaders couldn't understand that one!). What follows are examples of some of the journals that I read on a regular basis. I've always been interested, no, not strong enough; I've always been fascinated by custom cars, you know, hot rods. So, I read

Superior Glass Works turns Corvette parts into retro-styled wagon

Start with a pile of C5 Corvette parts, some tube steel and a wealth of experience fabricating hot rods, drag racers, custom cars and resto-mods, and you might end up with something like the Superior 54 Sport Wagon. Using donor parts where it matters most and linking it all together with a custom frame. The hand-laid fiberglass and CoreMat body is bolted directly to that frame, and the whole package is assembled for delivery, leaving the interior, paint, engine, wiring and all the little touche

Wheel Alignment Tips for Custom Cars : How to Confirm Caster in a Car Steering System

Confirm caster, or remeasure it after the baseline measurement, to make sure it’s accurate; learn how in this free auto-repair video. Expert: Doug Jenkins Bio: Doug Jenkins runs Doug Jenkins Custom Hot Rods in St. Louis, where he restores classic cars and creates mild to wild custom street rods. He races a 1972 Corvette in the SCCA performance rally series. Filmmaker: Ross Safronoff Duration : 0:1:30 Technorati Tags: alignment , automotive , body , car , classic , hot ,

Annual Car Show To Highlight Hybrids (Downtown Gazette)

Hot rods, classics and custom cars won’t be the main attraction of an annual car show that soon will make its way downtown.