The story of Roger O'Dell's custom project begins with a phone call from a friend complaining about a '36 Ford roadster...
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Lynn Bird began a project and ended with a Ala Kart inspired 1927 Ford Model T roadster show car.
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My favorite cars have always been traditional-style rods, in particular, the early "show coupe" style...
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Spectators at the '09 Grand National Roadster Show (GNRS) were the first to see Jim Benitez's Model A roadster...
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Putting a single person's name to this story from one angle might seem to be a bit of an overstatement, but at the same time not tying it all together with a selected surname would be a bit of an oversight as well...
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Tom Carver's '32 Ford used to be one of those forlorn field trucks. The old Deuce saw decades of abuse before Tom spied it at a swap meet...
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A thousand miles east and another mile higher than his Southern Californian peers, Otto Rhodes was an unlikely trendsetter. Over a four-year period he sculpted his ordinary F-100 into a chopped, pearl-painted, chrome-laden show stopper...
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In 1954, a young kid behind the wheel of a channeled '32 Ford Tudor came storming down Mt. Vernon Avenue in Wichita, Kansas. As the Ford passed the train tracks....
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Everybody loves a saga, a story about an ordeal that never seems to end. So next time you're bench racing with your buddies, bring up the story of Jerry Kincade's '51 Ford.....
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One of the most popular competitors for the America's Most Beautiful Roadster Award at the 2009 Grand National Roadster Show was the Black Widow,....
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Cromling's history with this particular '40 Ford coupe is somewhat unusual in the respect that he has owned this car since 1972. Sure, there are plenty of folks who have kept a car for as long,....
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What do you picture when you think about hot rod activity from the Fifties? Dusty dragstrips with leaping flagmen? Stripped down roadsters tearing across a dry lake? If your mind conjures up images of dragstrips...
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It may not always be the first thing that comes to mind when looking at a hopped-up old car, but there's usually a great story of how a vintage vehicle survived through the years without ending up rotting away...
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Those of us who are, or have been, married have doubtless, at one time or another, surprised our spouses with unexpected gifts (and not always surprised in a good way). Jim Kipp is no exception--except that he gave his wife Debra one heck of a surprise 50th birthday present...
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"Building hot rods is nothing new to me," Bill Herb will tell you. "I was born into a family of gearheads." One glance at this mostly owner-built '33 roadster is convincing evidence that...
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You could say I was brainwashed as a toddler. My dad has been a rodder since the '50s so it's in my blood...
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It's hard to live life if you keep thinking about all the "What ifs" and second guessing everything you want to do...
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Fifty years ago, while one segment of society was building and driving hot rods and custom cars, a whole 'nother segment was enjoying its cars in a different way.
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When I sent the preliminary photos of this car to our editor for feature approval, his immediate response was yes, but with a question attached.
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The beginning of my 1931 Ford coupe and obsession with hot rods began around 1991. I was a punk rock kid looking for something new...
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Here's another interesting hot rod I ran across at the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum's cruise night in April that looks like it has some interesting history if it could speak. Hopefully the photos are worth a 1,000 words. By the look of...
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I came across this bitchin' little '30/31 Model A roadster on Deuce 'rails at the April Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum's cruise night. Don't have much info on it beyond...
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Some of you may have already seen this Flatty-motored A roadster starring on Hot Rod TV, so when we met its owner Jordan Graham at the West Coast Kustoms show in Santa Maria, we figured the story behind its build was worth sharing.
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Check out this 1931 Ford Tudor sedan that has a GM 350 engine, Offenhauser 3x2 intake with Rochester carburetors, Turbo 350 transmissions inside Rod & Custom Magazine.
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After two long years of very little sleep, credit card debt, car-related emotional ups and downs, and several cut fingers and missed deadlines-my dream has finally been realized.
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