FEATURED CARS

After Ralph Nader condemned the Chevrolet Corvair in his 1965 book "Unsafe at Any Speed," sales of the once popular model plummeted quickly, While all of this was going on, an impressionable youth named Bob Brownell, now of Laramie, WY, was growing up in the Midwest.

Richard has been building custom 1955 Chevrolets for more than 20 years. They are the only kind of car he chooses to build, and he builds them very well.

The more we looked at it, the more we were lost. Finally, like a poker hand gone very wrong, we folded. When it came to what this car was, we had nothin’.

My wife came outside and said, “What happened? This doesn’t look like a quick detail job to me.” I told her, “We have a new plan…”

The combination of the reliable small-block Chevy teamed with a Corvette servo equipped GM 700R4 overdrive transmission has proven to be an excellent drivetrain choice for this frequently used street machine.

Take a good look at Randy Foster’s Omaha, NE-based ’72 Camaro, but don’t expect it to look the same way the next time you see it. 

As a paint and bodyman, Dave Salcido of Bakersfield, CA, knew the appearance of his personal car would have to stand out from the rest. By choosing the rarely-customized ’63 Ford Galaxie 500 as a starting point, he was on the right track.

When Fred Kinnary dragged an old farm truck out of a field in Wisconsin and bought it for his daughter Brenda as a birthday present, not only was he saving a classic truck from further decay, he was also buying what would become a meaningful family project.

The ’36 Ford is finally finding favor with hot rodders. After decades of playing second fiddle to the more-popular ’32-’34s, it seems the gentle curves of the ’35-’37 Fords have truly begun to carve their own niche.

While waiting to tee off on the 14th hole of a Myrtle Beach, SC, golf course, Gordon Peters was admiring the scenery around him when he saw a conspicuous shape hiding beneath a tarp in an adjacent backyard.