After building a few cars, I needed a break and decided to take a different route and buy a couple already done.
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You probably don't know Paul Savelesky's name. He wasn't a big-time custom car builder like Barris or Roth or Starbird. He was just an ambitious young enthusiast from Davenport...
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Growing up in Southern California during the 1970s, Joe Santiago's automotive interests could have easily gravitated toward shag-carpeted vans or neutered musclecars with hokey graphics. Fortunately that didn't happen as you can tell from his '54 Bel Air
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Check out Justin Umbs' 1953 Chevy Bel Air Hardtop - Rod And Custom Magazine
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Jerry and Cheryl Krob's '59 Chevy
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Check out this 1953 Chevy Bel Air Hardtop that has 1954 Ford headlights and 20 inch Eagle wheels inside Rod & Custom Magazine.
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Nostalgia has a funny way of skewing history. Though many of us like to remember the '50s as an era jam-packed with chopped and sectioned leadsleds, the fact is that most street customs-those driven daily by high school students and working Joes-were decidedly
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It's no coincidence that Nick Hild's first new car was a '62 Chevy Bel Air two-door hardtop. It had a 327 mill, Nassau Blue paint, and (after a trip to Tijuana) a $99 tuck 'n' roll job. Nick sold the car when he started college in 1965, but obviously never for
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Harvey Bagshaw's Shoebox Chevy
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Crowd Control In The Family Cruiser
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Love and appreciation of an owner's wife led to the rebuilding of this custom 1953 Chevrolet Bel Air. Read all the details in Rod and Custom magazine.
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It’s quite an honor to say that your ride has been chosen by others to be the Street Machine of the Year. This honor was bestowed upon Denny and Jennifer Terzich’s ’56 Chevy at the Goodguys event in Columbus, Ohio, this past summer. But instead
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You can always tell a guy who’s hooked on performance. He’s the one whose car has to go faster, turn quicker, and stop shorter than the next guy. Take a peek inside Ray Marett’s stable and you’ll understand what we’re talking about. Fr
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Sometimes a car feature comes along that becomes very personal. If you lived the car culture that was the San Fernando Valley just north of Los Angeles anytime after the early ’70s, you might well have met Mike Johnson. He prowled the streets of the
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Despite his car’s pure show appearance, Jon Bateman enjoys driving the ’64 Bel Air everywhere he can. We’re not talkin’ grocery runs either. During the 1999 Hot Rod Power Tour, Jon and his Bel Air traveled across the country from California
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Hobby insiders have been read-ing “Spinnin’ & Grinnin’ with Christopher Titus” in the pages of Goodguy’s Gazette for many years—so it’s gratifying to see one of our own succeed on television. When Tim Allen’s show Home
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Steve Bender wanted to build the ultimate ’57 Chevy. That’s an incredible goal and requires a depth of experience, plenty of determination, and a water-cooled checkbook. But Steve was committed, and after locating a ’57 hardtop six years ago, he
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In August of 2001, we gave you readers a chance for stardom. We asked you to take some pictures of your hottest ride, stuff them in an envelope with a short description, and mail everything off to CHP, and we’d pick the winning car for a feature. We rec
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Like a blast furnace, the desert heat sucks the moisture from your skin faster than a bunch of frat boys can empty a keg. As you blow past the next herd of minivans, a flash on the horizon in your mirror betrays a presence gaining on you…fast. Raking the
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Bob Wise thrives on Chevrolets. But with a musclecar resume packed with some of the best vintage Chevrolets ever built, what does a retired electrical/mechanical engineer do for his next car? Simple—choose a hot-looking ‘56 Chevy Bel Air outfitted wi
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Sometimes building a car is the easy part. Finding one though is a different matter. John Lewis of Huntington Beach, California, had searched for a ’57 Chevy candidate to restore for almost five years. Then one day he was leafing through a copy of Hemming
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In today's high-tech world almost anything is possible. Men have walked on the moon and blasted through the sound barrier. Based on that technology, Brent Jackson's twin-turbocharged '57 two-door isn't so radical. But then again, it is.
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