If you want to watch (or have already watched) Corky's movie, it's probably not least because you want (or wanted) to see the main character's car in action - a very remarkable peach-pinkish Plymouth Barracuda.…
Loving You (1957) – Elvis Presley’s first starring…
As a rule, the King's early films are rated higher than his later films. Not least because Elvis at that time was not yet disappointed with all the ins and outs of the processes that…
Ford Taunus V4 engine – Western Four with…
I think, after reading about four-cylinder V-shaped internal combustion engines in Japan and the USSR, the question of how things are going in Europe and America suggests itself. We will be able to answer this…
The history of the V4 engine in cruisers,…
As I mentioned in passing in one of the previous parts, Harleys actually had some very cool prototypes. Back in 1976, the company's management developed a detailed plan to respond to the Japanese threat: an…
Soviet V4 engines in choppers and national tuning…
Although the V4s of motorcycles are the most popular V-shaped fours in the custom culture, automobile V4s still exist and even sometimes occur in projects of interest to us. The most common of these engines…
The History of the V4 engine in Cruisers,…
So, 1981 is the year. Yamaha Virago is gaining territory for the Japanese in the cruise ship market, while Harley-Davidson is nervously smoking on the sidelines, and even this case seems to be about to…
The History of the V4 engine in cruisers,…
I decided to add another type of engine to our website. The V4 is a relatively rare unit on the custom scene, which can perhaps be attributed to the fact that American automotive culture is…
Hot rod Ford with Toyota engine – the…
A regular reader might say: But didn't you just say a month ago that you wouldn't write about Japanese engines? Not really: in an article about a GAZ 24 named Venus, I wrote that I…
GMC – Weed Eater pickup truck: custom made…
If people and other animals have eyes as the mirror of the soul, then, of course, the headlights play an important role in the car. If it's retro, it's round. If the 80s are rectangular.…
1937 Ford Woody Wagon – Carbon 14: chrome,…
I love... No, it's not like that. I adore and admire the American style of car tuning in the second half of the last century. That's why I always look at supercharged cars. I'm drawn…
The Hub Caps – Full Throttle: Hot rock…
I got to know the band The Hub Caps, as well as many other bands from Sweden, thanks to the Rockabilly Nationals compilation. In particular, I purchased the Full Throttle album back in 2020, but…
GAZ 24 – Venus: a masterpiece custom Volga…
For a very long time I wanted to write about a car from our native expanses, but at the same time... Don't get me wrong: I respect all car enthusiasts and their projects, and even…
The Vanishing Point (1971): A white Dodge Challenger…
Perhaps the most iconic road movie of all and... I have no idea what to write about. The fact is that even the most iconic road movie is, after all, a road movie. Someone goes…
1969 Chevrolet El Camino by Steve Hudson
The Internet is the closest thing we have to a time machine. Of course, some sites are designed to flow with time, but still, old-style sites like blogs or our online magazine are fragments of…
2006 Chrysler 300C by Frankie Valenti: Hemi in…
Without preface: I am delighted with this car. The unique shape of the roof, which I have never seen anywhere else. The absence of a steering wheel, which makes it similar to such classic works…
2006 Chrysler 300C – A-Bom: Mad Matt and…
For the first time, I casually demonstrated this custom car in an article about the movie Car: The Road of Revenge, just by inserting a couple of photos in the middle of the article. I…
Black Knights – Gold Teeth And Silver Charms:…
One of my hobbies is to search for music that is not available on the Internet. And when I find something that I like, I have a desire to share it with the people... The…
Chip Fuz – The Golden Heart of the…
Let's be honest: automotive culture is going through difficult times. One has only to look at the tuning scene of any country, in principle, and the words of Jeremy Clarkson immediately come to mind, which…
The Touch of Evil (1958): The Last Noir
If you are at least a bit of a movie buff, then most likely you know who George Orson Welles is. Even if you think you don't know. Two words: Citizen Kane. In fact, the…
George Barris – why is he the King…
I bet that a lot of people who have heard about George Barris and got acquainted with his creations were surprised by the fact that Barris is called the King of Customizers. And the thing…
1948 Ford Anglia – Odd Job: 10 million…
A separate advantage of hunting for auto-moto magazines when searching for information about a particular car is that, in addition to the article you are looking for, you actually get the rest of the magazine.…
Cthulhu Saves Christmas: New Year behind the Veil…
You won't believe it, but I didn't think I would be writing a review of this game. But for some reason, everyone really wants a New Year's or Christmas article, while I personally feel about…
1936 Singer Bantam: Diesel hot rod under a…
As with many other cars, the main character of this article was found all of a sudden. The fact is that, among other things, I love graffiti. And if video games sometimes have a chance…
West Of The Dead: Western in black tones
Funny. This is only my fourth article about video games, but it's the second one that needs to be opened with the words "I didn't think I'd write about this game, but..." - and the…
1976 Dodge Tradesman Van – Outrageous: A Future…
As it turned out more than once, this car was discovered completely by accident: I was interested in the 1979 issue of Vans & Pickups magazine in an attempt to find an article about another…
1977 Chevrolet Van – Heartbreaker: Beautiful Metal Unicorn
For many years, all the information about this van was limited to a single photo on my hard drive. Of course, this is not enough for an independent article, and therefore I planned to attach…
The Blob (1958), or Don’t Let the Blobs…
Beware of the Blob, It creeps and leaps, And glides, and slides Across the floor Right through the door And all around the wall A splotch, a blotch. Be careful of the Blob! Unfortunately, the…
The Car: The Road of Revenge (2019) –…
I want to start this article with a small remark that may save you a couple of minutes: The Car of 2019 is absolutely an average movie in all respects. And I'm not sure if…
The Car (1977): Angrier than Christine
Dear friends. This year has been difficult. Cough-cough. The movie won't be the best either. At least, according to film critics, who gave him only 28 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. The audience delivered almost twice…
1974 Lamborghini Countach – amazing custom without Italian…
Sometimes you come across something so out of the ordinary that you literally boil with excitement, surprise and admiration at the same time. Something like a Lamborghini or a Ferrari from the 80s or 90s…
Rockabilly Nationals: Four hours of Swedish Rockabilly
For quite some time now, I've been wanting to introduce all those who visit our website to collections called Rockabilly Nationals. And it seems that there won't be a better moment than now - right…
Sven Hansson’s Lincoln Cosmopolitan: Lead sleigh with seagull…
Unfortunately, cars like the Predicta or Charlie Ryan's Lincoln are too famous. There is a lot of information about them, and although their rich history and life path are extremely interesting, they are sometimes described…
Redline (2009): Sci-fi rock’n’roll in Japanese
Since certain events of the 90s of the last century left ordinary citizens of our country virtually without their own cultural works, it is quite easy to understand the phenomenon that, in fact, every child…
Plymouth Prowler: the first factory hot rod
Imagine this picture: you enter a car dealership, and there is a hot rod right in the middle of a huge hall. Brand new and - no matter how amazing it may sound - branded,…
V-Doce: cowl steering and supercharged V12
The Internet has long grown into a huge, dimensionless monster, and searching for any information is becoming like trying to find a needle in a haystack. That's why, despite all my efforts, interesting things sometimes…
Brian Setzer – Gotta Have The Rumble (2021),…
Brian Setzer's first solo album in the last seven years! As in the case of the album by another stray cat, Lee Rocker, the recording of the disc occurred not least due to the widespread…
Sometimes They Come Back (1991): Evil briolinschiki from…
I never get tired of repeating that Stephen King is a terribly overrated writer. But, by some irony of fate, it is Comrade King who is perhaps the most famous creator, in whose works from…
The Junkman (1982): A cult film with original…
Henry Blythe Halicki was an unusual man. He had a good business, he had enough money for dozens of cars and at least for all the equipment that was required for the filming of the…
Le Perle: Ford Thunderbird with vinyl record player
The heroine of this article was casually mentioned by me in the material about the most significant of all Darryl Starbird's cars, the Predicta. In the process of writing that article, I found out that…
Street cars and street freaks: the custom culture…
It is generally accepted that hot rods ruled the streets of the United States until the advent of muscle cars, and somehow no one thinks about the fact that muscular cars also quite often drove…
Thee Gravemen – Monster Blues: Six Feet Under…
Despite the fact that I don't really like garage rock, I liked the album Grease & Oil, and immediately after listening to it, I went through the discography of the album's author, Lee Thornton, also…
Kargoyle: The hearse from George Barris’ workshop
Back in the days when you couldn't draw anything on a computer, Drag-U-La probably surprised thousands of viewers of The Munsters series. But no matter how iconic the grobo-dragster is, it seems to me that…
Toonstruck: Twenty years before Cuphead
To be honest, I didn't think I'd be writing about this game. But both Cool World and Who Framed Roger Rabbit are already present on our website, and therefore it would simply be wrong not…
Steel Rats: bikes, bots, Art Deco
Have you ever heard of Trials? This is such an ancient Java toy that could be run both on a computer and on a mobile phone. She was very popular at the time... Well, or…
Full Throttle: hard rock and choppers in the…
It seems to me that no game is better suited for opening the video game section on our website than Full Throttle from 1995. It's classic. It's about bikers. It's full of rock. And she…
The Dragon Lord, Part 2: An interview with…
Без всяких сомнений: Dragon Lord выглядит жутко металически и отправляет прямиком в 80-ые. От одного взгляда на этот автомобиль так и тянет врубить альбом Holy Diver или что-нибудь похожее - убедитесь в этом сами, взглянув…
The Dragon Lord, Part 1: A vivid example…
In the 60s, not only muscle cars appeared in the American automotive industry: vans took to the road for the first time. And the people liked the new four-wheeled beast, as a result of which…
Boss Hoss with V6 engine
The idea of putting the largest engine in the smallest frame, and then riding on what turned out, probably appeared along with the first car on Earth. So, I think I won't surprise you much…
Ford Hot rod with Alfa Romeo V6 engine
This hot rod has been around since at least 2004, and it belongs to those cars that persistently remain in the shadows. Fortunately, it has been put up for sale at least three times in…
Death Race: Beyond Anarchy: Mad Max on the…
Good evening, dear friends. Make yourself comfortable by the fireplace and sip your favorite wine. Today I present to the attention of cinema lovers a film called Death Race: Beyond Anarchy (2018). On the screen…
Shoe This: two Fords and one V6
The 1949 Ford was very innovative in terms of design: the car included, for example, elements of aviation style and protruding taillights - in the 50s, all this would become a real peak of automotive…
The Batman: The Movie (1966): The Silver Age…
More and more often I notice for myself that I have been preparing to write about something for a very long time - I collect photos, links, other material - and then, suddenly for myself,…
Ratenstein: A rat rod with two superchargers, like…
The biggest disadvantage of Mad Max: Fury Road, I personally think, is that a lot of things didn't work in it. And I'm not trying to somehow diminish the merits of this film right now…
Purple Cannibals: The Story of Three Chevrolet Corvettes,…
The relatively simple song The Purple People Eater, written by Sheb Wooley, was released to the people at the end of May 1958 and gained such popularity that, perhaps, no other pop song has seen.…
Johnny Reno – Third Degree (1990), the same…
I 'll testify, it ain't no lie: I saw Elvis in the sky! You'll understand what I mean later, but in the meantime, let me write a few words about Johnny Reno. It seems to…
Bubba Ho-Tep (2002) – The Whole Truth about…
To be honest, I didn't want to write an article about this film. Even taking into account the fact that Elvis Presley himself appears in the foreground of this film, little rock and roll or…
Ford and Harley-Davidson in the same hot rod…
In the previous article about the V-twin, I want to tell you about such a phenomenon as hot rods with a two-cylinder V-shaped engine. Such cars are assembled, as a rule, in the size of…
Chopper with V-twin and classically positioned supercharger
It's high time to write something new about the world of cars. I have accumulated several magazines and even more just good ideas on this topic, but I'll start small. And I'm not so much…
Leadfoot Tea – Grease & Oil (2018), one…
Today I listened to a very recent album, released only a year ago, in 2018. I found it completely by accident: it's just that some sly cats on the same website with grease are selling…
Crossroads (1986) or How to Become a Bluesman
I really like it when in one work of art you can find small references to another creation of mankind - and you walk along them, as if on bread crumbs, from one island of…
Johnny Reno – Full Blown (1985), Sax Maniacs…
I became a kind of fan of Comrade Rino after the Roadracers movie and decided to collect his entire discography, starting with The Juke Jumpers band. And although Johnny's discography is very small, it turned…
Elvis vs. 13 Cats – That’s Alright Mama…
It's been a while since we've written anything about music, and it's time to fix it. Moreover, I have accumulated a certain number of relatively rare records that I am eager to share with you,…
Best Elvis Presley Movie: Speedway 1968
Boom-shaka-laka! It's time to finally write a couple of lines on our website about one of the many films with the real Elvis Presley! Perhaps someone will ask: why didn't we do this before? Well,…
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988) – Zemeckis and…
I had 99 problems today, but I'm finally home and I can watch a movie before going to bed. And an interesting thought came to me: after all, I write articles about albums while listening…
The Wild Angels (1966) – not-so-carefree Peter Fonda
Many fans of just about rock and roll Peter Fonda is known primarily as Wyatt from the most famous biker movie of all time - Easy Rider. But at the same time, very few people…
Deuce of Spades: A dream movie that has…
The budget of the Avengers of 2012 was 220 million dollars, while the budget of Deuce Of Spades, released a year earlier, was only 250 thousand dollars. You can't help wondering: what could have been…
The Sparky Sessions (2019) – and Sparky is…
I was offered to write a review for this release, and agreeing, the first thing I did was to look for information about the artists - Mark "Sparky" Philips and The Hillbilly Moon Explosion band.…
The Outsiders (1983) – briolinschiki through the eyes…
Interesting fact: Rumble Fish and The Outsiders were filmed "back to back" - that is, somewhat roughly speaking, Francis Ford Coppola shot these two films simultaneously in 1982. Like the Fighting Fish, The Outsiders is…
Chuck (2017) – Last Greetings from St. Louis
On this day, March 18th, exactly two years ago, Chuck Berry, one of the true icons of classic rock and roll, left us. I don't think anyone needs to be told about his merits and…
The Wanderers (1979) – A movie about guys…
The Wanderers 1979... Frankly, I tried very hard to dodge writing this article. First of all, due to the fact that the second administrator of this site already has quite a good short article on…
P-32: Chip Fuze’s Road Fighter
Chip Foose was known among hot rodders even before his last name became a brand for all kinds of auto parts. Before participating in various TV shows, Chip made a name for himself back in…
Convoy (1978) – the best film about truckers
I think everyone has heard of films based on books or based on historical events, or, I don't know, on folk folklore. Has anyone ever seen movies based on songs? To be honest, I can't…
V12 engines on the custom scene: exotics from…
I must say that despite the fact that Europe from Britain to Bavaria is now definitely the leader in terms of the percentage of use of twelve-cylinder engines, many V-engines were created in the USA…
V12 engines on the custom stage: exotics from…
Despite the fact that V12s under the hood of hot rods are a very unusual sight in themselves, I must say that Lincoln-Zephyr, Jaguar, BMW, GMC are all, in fact, pops among 12-cylinder projects. And…
Elvis is a Hot rod from Fury Road
There is Elvis Aaron Presley, he is a musician and the sole King of rock and roll. And there's Ian Davis, nicknamed Elvis, and he's been building hot rods in the Rod Bods Downunder workshop…
Top Cats – the best neo-rockabilly from Sweden
If you're a musician, here's a tip for you: put a vintage American car on the CD cover and you'll definitely have one more sale. Because mainly because of the luxurious cover, all four parts…
V12 engines on the custom stage: GMC
So, we looked at the German and British twelve-cylinder engines, which are quite popular in the hot rodding and custom automotive industry, but now I suggest we return to the US. The main competitor for…
Sweet 16: Lost in Time Ford with V16
The year is 1960. Don Wagers lures his girlfriend, Shirley Maxwell, to ride in a 1929 V16 roadster. As I wrote once before, in those days it was much easier to build a hot rod…
V12 engines on the custom scene: BMW
In addition to Jaguar, there are several other V12 engines ready to displace the Lincoln-Zephyr on the scene. One of them is the BMW M70 twelve-cylinder German engine, which has been gaining popularity recently. Why…
Peggy Sugarhill – Rockabilly Music Is Bad Bad…
And this story happened not so long ago and it started with a simple request. "Hey, dude, can you listen to this song? I can't make out the words in the second verse." Yes, of…
V12 engines on the custom stage: Jaguar
The Lincoln-Zephyr is not the only twelve-cylinder engine that is popular with custom builders. Many cats, especially those working in the t-bucket style, like to use V12 from... Jaguar! The fact is that at one…
Cuba Libre – cocktail recipe
On a day like this, there's nothing better than a toast to Cuba. And few things could be better than one of the most classic cocktails in the world, which was invented in Cuba in…
Good Morning, Fidel – cocktail recipe
Exactly two years ago, on November twenty-fifth, 2016, Fidel Alejandro Castro, the revolutionary communist who led Cuba from 1959 to 2008, passed away. The figure is clearly noticeable and multifaceted, and everyone may have their…
V12 engines on the custom stage: Lincoln-Zephyr
Hot Rod Lincoln is an extremely inspiring song. It may well be one of the reasons that Lincoln-Zephyr 12-cylinder engines are very popular among hot rodders, despite all the problems that accompany them. Of course,…
Wild Angels – Let’s Get Back To Rock’n’roll…
Hey, hello again, John Lennon album. No, I won't write about you again today. Maybe in a week? And today I'd rather write about a great vinyl record by the British band Wild Angels from…
Little Willie Littlefield – Houseparty (1982), Piano party
This is the content that I really want to see on this site! Reviews of vinyl records, with music that no one had posted on the Internet before! This is the kind of website I…
Elvis: how the horror master made a movie…
I prefer not to watch biographical films about Elvis. For many reasons, but the most important of them is that the life of such a famous person as Presley, willy-nilly, becomes shrouded in all sorts…
Two hot rods with a Marmon V16 engine
And in this article you can see two cars at once, which are charged with a 16-cylinder Marmon engine. Howard Carpenter Marmon, the founder of the company, was in many ways a pioneer, using advanced…
Charlie Ryan and His Hot Rod Lincoln: Car…
It all started in 1950. Automotive culture dominated over all others: cheap cars and equally cheap engines, coupled with a relatively simple arrangement of mechanical parts and an almost complete lack of electronics, made it…
1923 Dodge with Cadillac V16 engine
The V8 is definitely an incredible engine, but I've always been in awe of the V16. Because the V16 in my head is directly associated with a car brand like Cadillac. Yes, modern realities have…
Christine (1983): Your first and only car
Stephen King is overrated. Damn, a little more - and it will become my watch phrase. But seriously, King does not take quality at all, but quantity. A kind of Daria Dontsova from the horror…
Border Patrol: Bringing Retro back to PT Cruiser
Unfortunately, when I try to find something about this car, I only find information that in 2017, the US Border Patrol stopped a PT Cruiser at the border, packed with 19 kilograms of meth, worth…
13 Cats – 13 Tracks (2002), and I’m…
Uh, I'm a little worried... We have a group of 13 Cats in the blue corner of the ring. This project is a so-called supergroup, which means that all of its members have been in…
Bullet Proof – Shake The Summer (2018), the…
You know, one of the main problems of the modern world in terms of music is that the rules have changed. If earlier it was possible to record two or three tracks on a record…
Chrysler PT Cruiser: bait for a fan of…
No matter how terrible the PT Cruiser turned out to be, it was still able to capture some of the design features from the last century very correctly, and therefore, from the very first moment…