It was rise and shine Wednesday morning in Tupelo, Mississippi. Rick Love went over the scheduled activities at the regular morning driver's meeting. On tap for the day was a short drive...
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After our evening in Lake Charles Monday morning was the beginning of Day 2 of the Vintage Air Road Tour. Trail boss, Vintage Air's Rick Love conducted the driver's meeting...
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The second leg of the 2009 AMSOIL/Street Rodder Road Tour series is a cruise from the Vintage Air Headquarters in San Antonio, Texas to the NHRA Hot Rod Reunion at Beach Bend....
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When the folks at the Jones Group-Merrill Lynch in Youngstown, Ohio heard that the AMSOIL / Street Rodder Road Tour was coming to their town on the way to the Syracuse Nationals they knew that they wanted...
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It's funny how times and attitudes change.
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When Harry Willet, who builds cars at Willett Coach Works in Orlando Park, Illinois, talks about his Willett Special '32 Ford, he tosses out phrases like "1950s design" and "period styling" and "Modified Specials" and "Ak Miller."
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Traditional rodding has gained a stronghold and fortunately has no sign of letting go.
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"Lead Barges"? Well, yes. At least, that's what Mary Slonaker and her late husband, Al, called custom cars back when they held their first "official" National Roadster Show in 1950 at the old...
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This being the 60th anniversary of the Grand National Roadster Show, it's hard to imagine that any aspect of the show could still be improved upon after all this time. But from a meager...
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Just as new experiences recall lessons learned over lifetimes, attending events like the Grand National Roadster Show allows us to expand our automotive creativity through rare reviews...
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Car shows are controversial by their very nature, and when the title of America's Most Beautiful Roadster is on the line, even the winners of a veritable institution like the Grand National Roadster Show are often criticized.
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You might think that something 60 years old might not have the same "sheen" as it once did, but the Grand National Roadster Show proves that everything old can be new again.
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On Wednesday morning it was rise and shine in Greensboro, North Carolina. Our destination for lunch was the garage and museum of Cecil Profitt. The trip to Cecil's in Windsor, Virginia would take about four hours and it was...
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Call the loony bin, but we did in fact take a bunch of real, vintage Shelby Mustangs and drive them through India for two weeks
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The Saturday before Mother's Day was a "twofer" for me-morning and early afternoon at the George Barris show in Culver City and then a 15-minute straight shot down Sepulveda Boulevard to El Segundo for the...
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For five years in a row now, George Barris has been coming from North Hollywood to beautiful downtown Culver City to host the Cruisin' Back to the 50s car show, held in May. From the way this event is growing, we expect...
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I was able to break away from coloring Easter eggs for a couple of hours and swing out to old town La Verne to check out the Cool Cruise (benefitting the Loma Linda Veterans Hospital) this past Saturday. The show has grown...
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After the car show and charity auction at Coker Tire on Saturday and the beautiful drive through the Smoky Mountains on Sunday, the Tour continued on Monday morning with a visit to Lokar Performance Products...
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At every event STREET RODDER attends, we generate more photos than can be published for the story we'll run on the show. In the case of this year's...
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It is that time again already and the first leg of the 2009 edition of the AMSOIL / Street Rodder Road Tour is off to a great start. The Coker Tour started Saturday May 9 with a car show and charity auction...
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Pep Boys recently opened a dedicated speed shop in downtown Los Angeles and customers are invited to a grand opening celebration May 30th and 31st.
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The seaport Marina Hotel in Long Beach, California, was the venue on March 21 for the premiere of the Hot Rod Havoc III DVD. Film-makers Mark and Arie Van Schyndel took a break after Hot Rod Havoc II to make...
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In 1954, HOT ROD editor Wally Parks sent a team of men on the road to teach car clubs how to hold a safe drag race. They were called the Drag Safari, and 50 years later, this is their story.
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Here are some pix from the 10th annual Pasadena Roadster Club Reliability Run, held on May 2 in the San Gabriel Mountains, north of Pasadena, California...
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June is always a busy month for street rodders across the United States. Great weather is finally upon us and it is time to hit the highway. For folks on the east coast the fun starts at the huge NSRA East Coast Nationals...
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