Elvis Presley loved cars, and this is a well-known fact. Most of all, he liked Cadillacs - according to popular opinion, during his life Elvis bought something like two hundred cars of this brand. The…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Hot Rods To Hell (1966) 52 Miles of…
Russian translation of the subtitles for another film is called Hot Rods To Hell, and in Russian it is known (to anyone at all) under the name 52 Miles of Fear. The year is 1966.…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…