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,…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
American Graffiti (1973) – a ballad about a…
A cozy Friday afternoon movie of the kind that was often shown in Russia in the late 90s. Innocent pranks of a provincial American city. Cars with a needle, cover girls. Creating relationships and figuring…
John Bronco (2020): A cultural phenomenon of America
How does mockumentary differ from documentary? Probably because in the first case it is somehow fiction. John Bronco is a man and a steamboat. And a reader, and a reaper, and a doodler. A national…
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…
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…
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…
Ford v Ferrari (2019), racer and constructor
Ford v Ferrari (2019). At first glance, it may seem that the heroes of Matt Damon and Christian Bale are opponents. Well, because Ford v Ferrari. Bale versus Damon or vice versa. But in fact,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Wild at Heart (1990) – Road movie on…
So, comrades, I am bringing into the light of our flashlight a film called Wild at Heart of 1990. This is an extremely unusually filmed drama with admixtures of a thriller and a road movie.…
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…
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…
The California Kid is one of the best…
Sometimes I get a free minute, and I do what I really want to do: I translate old movies about cars. For example, Russian subtitles for the 1974 film The California Kid by my authorship.…
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…