Cracklin’ Rosie get on board, we’re gonna ride till there ain’t no more to go… In the fall of 1970, Neil Diamond’s “Cracklin’ Rosie” topped the Billboard Hot 100. That same year, lifetime racer and rodder Al Nosse packed up and headed for California, amping up to produce a smash hit of his own. The
It was July of 1993. Flannel shirts were high fashion, Walker, Texas Ranger was laying down the law, and Jim and Diana Lopochonsky’s radical Pro Street ’33 Ford coupe graced the cover of the Summit Racing catalog. Fast-forward 19 years and they’re still at it—and now they’ve even got their teenaged son Jamison in on
[portfolio_slideshow id=2974] “Life got in the way of drag racing, and I wound up parking the car in the garage where it served mostly as a shelf. I got plenty of offers on it over the years, but I thought it fit pretty well in there, so that’s where it stayed.” So sat Joe Mazzola’s
[portfolio_slideshow id=6119] This story originally ran in the Summit Racing catalog and first appeared on SummitRacing.com on 10/8/2011. You know what they say: if you want something done right, then you have to do it yourself. And if you’re Rich Schneider, that goes double when you’re talking about street rods. Running his own body shop
[portfolio_slideshow id=5704] This story appeared on the Summit Racing website on December 31, 2009 and originally ran in the Summit Racing catalog. Destiny. Some people believe that all things and all interactions follow a predetermined path and you can’t change the outcome no matter how hard you try. The whole idea might sound a little
[portfolio_slideshow id=6075] When bare metal just won’t make the grade, car enthusiasts and commercial shops call up Bob Bertelsen— owner of A Plus Powder Coaters in Columbiana, OH—to transform it into something special. So when Bob applied this same idea to his 1967 Camaro RS convertible, it’s no surprise that it turned out tougher than
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