One of the most popular competitors for the America's Most Beautiful Roadster Award at the 2009 Grand National Roadster Show was the Black Widow,....
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"Building hot rods is nothing new to me," Bill Herb will tell you. "I was born into a family of gearheads." One glance at this mostly owner-built '33 roadster is convincing evidence that...
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It's hard to live life if you keep thinking about all the "What ifs" and second guessing everything you want to do...
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Check out the our readers classic 1932 Ford Roadster, a 1966 Chevy Truck, and a 1955 Chevy Truck!
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Some of you may have already seen this Flatty-motored A roadster starring on Hot Rod TV, so when we met its owner Jordan Graham at the West Coast Kustoms show in Santa Maria, we figured the story behind its build was worth sharing.
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In the wide and wonderful world of hot rods, the story behind the trio of '32 Ford roadsters presented in this story has the option of being viewed as either extremely diverse (in the case of the owners and builders) or incredibly similar (by the materials, parts, color, and style selected).
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Ron Hartwell has been a lifelong car enthusiast. He bought his first car in 1953 when he was 13 years old-a drivable '37 Ford two-door that cost him a whopping $15.
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In 2001, Greg McComas was poking around on eBay, looking for vintage parts for a project he wanted to build-a Bonneville-style '32 coupe, channeled with a track-nose.
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Fortunately, a few stories just write themselves in the world of rods and customs, and thankfully this is one of those historic pieces that I was able to be a part of. When it comes to the two cars and the people in this story, much is known and very well-documented in historic writings in magazines
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By the end of August 2006, Jane and I had finally resolved to finish our '36 Ford roadster. We had been talking about it for four or five years but kept procrastinating because, after several memorable...
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You can't talk about the history of hot rodding without sliding over to the topic of World War II fighter planes. The guys who lit the fuse for the hot rod explosion in the late '40s were, in many cases, returning vets. Some of them came home to cars they'd le
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Check Out Jim Hendricks 1936 Ford Roadster.
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We got our first look at Dennis DeCamp's F-32 roadster at the 2007 Grand National Roadster Show.
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Don Moyer III has a passion for old iron that started in his earliest years. His hot rods reflect his dedication to the way things used...
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Hot rods all have to start somewhere. Some of us start our new project when we pick up a long-forgotten relic, others find someone else's unfinished project and breathe new life into it, and another group of rodders starts with almost nothing. Tim Van Pelt's T
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A Megaphone Quartet Announces This Roadster's Arrival
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This project started when I was in Oakland, California, on business and found a white porcelain draft beer handle from The Black Diamond Brewing Company. It was perfect for a hot rod shifter knob and upon returning to Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, I went over to my
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You're probably a pretty devout worshipper at the hot rod altar if you know the Spalding brothers. For those who haven't achieved such devotion, the brothers, Tom and Bill, produced some of the hottest ignition systems and camshafts in the seminal years of the
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Troy Ladd's Respect Tradition Deuce roadster will most likely be familiar to regular R&C readers, as many of you will have followed its...
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A look at an average guy building an AMBR contender
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I just spent four days at one of the best indoor car shows. This year's Grand National Roadster Show will be a hard one for John Buck and his crew to top, but we know he is already making plans for next year. The quality of cars was top-notch, as usual, but th
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The Branch Family Has The Right Idea
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With every automotive task in the garage, you'll make several visits to most if not all of the following: community auto parts stores, specialty tool retailers, the local hardware, the mega hardware emporium, and vintage Ford (substitute brand of car for your
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What if you could follow the last 50 years of hot rod styles through one car? From the time it was purchased by teenager Miles Merkt in 1956, this '32 roadster has changed...
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One Man's Trash Is Another's Treasure, Which Is The Case With Jim Jordan's '29 roadster
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