[portfolio_slideshow id=53348] You might call them one-hit-wonders or unicorns. Guys like Dennis Spencer call them their favorite vehicles to collect. “He has a serious thing for single-year cars,” says Libby Spencer, Dennis’s wife and navigator. “The more obscure, the better.” Dennis shrugs. “I just like bringing something different to the show,” Dennis said. “I’ve owned my
It’s a great time to be a car guy. Cut a modest check to your local dealership and you can drive off the lot today in a brand new, 200 mile-per-hour behemoth, decked out with sumptuous leather, power everything, and a bumper-to-bumper warranty. So why on Earth would anyone invest all the time and garage
Vega—one of the brightest stars in the nighttime sky—is located in the constellation Lyra, trillions of miles from planet Earth. Like that distant star, Charley Denny’s spectacular Chevrolet Vega station wagon is light years away from the compact Chevy grocery-getter that rolled off of a Lordstown, OH assembly line back in 1976. The rebirth of
What’s better than one great car? Two. A couple of our readers demonstrated as much in October by posting pictures of multiple vehicles. You didn’t seem to mind, voting them among the Top 10 (err, 12?) October Fan Rides on Summit Racing’s Facebook page. Now, it’s time for you to name the Top Fan Ride
[portfolio_slideshow id=46872] Shop trucks have it rough. Instead of lowering springs, they get ladder racks; cool paint jobs and pinstripes take a backseat to nasty dents and dings; and opportunities for self-expression are limited to whatever you can fit on a pair of mud flaps. But when it says Hot Rod Charlie’s Tattoo on the
[portfolio_slideshow id=45884] They say beauty is only skin deep. To the casual observer, Matt Dillon’s 1967 Chevy C10 is a real treat for the eyes. But, take a closer look and you’ll see the true splendor of this custom pickup transcends its stunning exterior—it’s a perfect 10 through and through. Dillon set his sights on a
Every project car encounters a speed bump along the way. Sometimes it’s a part that doesn’t fit quite right the first time, or some missing fasteners, or maybe the instructions were upside-down. But sometimes the whole car becomes one big speed bump. Elmer Bischoff is a second-generation car guy, having learned to swap engines and
Retro is all the rage. Visit your friendly neighborhood car lot and see for yourself: mile-long hoods hiding powerful V8 engines, outlandish horsepower and torque-twisting fat rear tires, evocative aesthetics recalling legendary nameplates. There’s no denying it—we’re up to our dipsticks in a hot-rod renaissance. For Ed Greaves, this retro resurgence has been a long
What possesses someone to stuff a blown 355-cubic-inch small block Chevy inside (and we mean literally inside) a 1962 Volkswagen Microbus? Come to think of it, what makes someone chop, shave, and out-and-out hot rod a VW Bus? We like to call it pure genius. That’s the short answer, at least. If you’d like to hear
Is that the REAL Santa Claus!? We thought so. But then we saw these behind-the-scenes photos from Summit Racing’s gatefold shoot featuring a super-cool 1932 Ford coupe and a fine jolly ol’ St. Nick stand-in. Take a look through the slide show gallery to see how the holiday shoot came together, and what at least one
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