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.…
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…
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…
Caterham Kit Car – car out of the…
Lotus founder and chief engineer Colin Chapman, who won 7 constructors' cups in Formula 1 from 1963 to 1978, wrote a popular book for his time, "Build your own sports car for as little as…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
Elvis’ BMW 507: returned to sender
A fascinating story that you won't find in Baz Luhrmann's biopic. On March 24, 1958, Elvis Aaron Presley, a global celebrity and rock'n'roll star, joined the US Army. Stationed at Fort Hood, Texas, Presley completed…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
Hummer H1 as a methanol-fueled dragster
Perhaps the absolute quintessence of the entire history of the American automotive method is the Hummer H1 dragster. With a 10-liter Chevrolet engine that has been almost completely redesigned, and to which is bolted a…
The Canning Kid: Bubble top from Canada
Let's start this week with a car from a slightly different part of North America called The Canning Kid, which was built by Chad Hills, owner of Green Goblin Customs in Canning. Not to be…
Thunderflite: A custom, called a concept
The Ford Thunderflite Concept Car, despite the unspoken rule to call this car a concept car, is the 1961 Ford Thunderbird, which was designed by the master of his craft, Dean 'Dino' Arnold. The car…
Predicta: The Most famous Ford Thunderbird
Darryl Starbird's Predicta… You know, this car is seriously capable of driving you crazy. No kidding. The site from which I am translating most of this article belongs to a cat who is a fan…
Atomic Punk: 1959 Plymouth Savoy
"Who wouldn't want to jump into a bubble top Rota and burn rubber on it until the smoke billows?" - that's about what Aaron Grote once said. There's just one problem: most of Daddy Roth's…
Custom bobber with legendary Hemi
Another extremely monstrous creation from the world of cars, about which almost nothing is known, is this bike, powered by the legendary Hemi. Who built it? Everyone is silent. Speed, acceleration? Nothing is known. All…
Blown Outta Proportion: 1937 Ford Coupe in pro-mod…
If you were a car kid when you were a kid, then there's every chance that you had little toy cars from Hot Wheels. It is quite possible that they possessed a branded, inimitable crazy…
Custom drag chopper with inflated V8
Among other achievements of mankind, it should be noted that people have proved that the V8 can be crammed into a motorcycle. Even a V10 can be crammed into a motorcycle. And even a V12…
California Kroozer: 2001 Chrysler PT Cruiser
Here's another beautiful ship for you, built in the PTeazer workshop, which specializes in - you'd never guess - PT Cruisers. There are many interesting projects in their portfolio. For example, a PT Cruiser with…
Groozer: 2001 Chrysler PT Cruiser
So, I ask you to turn your attention to a project by Ronnie Gross from Denmark called Groozer. Like everything else related to PT Cruiser, Groozer is polarizing: for some, it seems that it makes…
2002 Chrysler California Cruiser
By the year 2000, the Chrysler Pronto Cruiser was shoveled over, and the PT Cruiser as we know it turned out. The car started very successfully, people were standing in line waiting for their cars.…
1999 Chrysler Pronto Cruiser
Chrysler is an extremely specific corporation. They've been on the verge of bankruptcy many times, mostly because of their questionable experiments, but they still stubbornly continue to step on the same rake. They go into…
Bubble Ray: 1975 Chevrolet Corvette
And here's an example of what you can turn a 1975 Chevrolet Corvette into - Bubble Ray. Unfortunately, there's not much information about this fancy car, but I'll share what I've found. So, one day,…
2003 Lexus IS 430
There's a formula that's been around for over fifty years: take a big engine and cram it into a small car. It even worked with Lexus. Yes, yes, I said Lexus. But Chip Fuz himself…
Beatnik Bubbletop: 1955 Ford
Do you know why I love bubble tops so much? Because it's not just a ghost of the era of space and rocket technology, no, it's a look and a desire. A desire for the…
Medusa: 1972 Buick Skylark from the movie Bellflower,…
Bellflower, California is an author's low-budget independent film inspired by dreams of a post-apocalyptic world, and at the same time it is a first-class drama. I was extremely pleased with this film and would like…
Show’n’Tell: 1986 Dodge Ram 50
Check out what a cute 86 Dodge Ram 50 I found by chance on the Internet. Its name is Show'n'tell, and it's the fastest pickup truck in Hawaii and possibly the fastest Ram 50 in…
X-Sonic: 1956 Chevrolet Corvette, the world’s first lowrider
Today, comrades, a story from the world of lowriders is on the agenda. From the very beginning of their world. The X-Sonic is the most famous car of the Krankers auto club of San Bernardino,…
1934 Chrysler (DeSoto) Airflow: at the Dawn of…
To date, aerodynamics and automotive design have finally intertwined with each other into something relatively vile - flattened, rounded shapes that hurt the eyes have captured all the factories in the world, finally displacing individuality…
Gas Bubble: 1963 Plymouth Fury
I bet the first association with the words Plymouth Fury is Christina. An evil creature that just tries to kill. Well, here's a radically different Plymouth Fury for you, called the Gas Bubble. Like any…
1955 Ford Mystere
The focus today is on Ford's 1955 concept car, the Mystere. Unfortunately, this is one of many concept cars that appeared and was abandoned by its creators immediately after several auto shows. Therefore, little is…
Switchblade 327: Brian Setzer’s 1932 Ford Coupe
From the very beginning, rock and roll and cars were inextricably linked. This was due to the time itself: the Great Depression ended, the Second World War ended. Cars and motorcycles only became cheaper and…