[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=6107] This story originally ran in the Summit Racing catalog and first appeared on SummitRacing.com on 4/8/2011. Over 600,000 Mustangs were produced in 1966, and you won’t find a single one that’ll compare to Greg Hoffman’s ’66 fastback. It combines classic and late-model styling so well that you’d swear it’s a concept that Ford
[portfolio_slideshow id=6092] This story originally appeared in the Summit Racing catalog and first appeared on SummitRacing.com on 2/22/2010. “When I pulled up to the burnout box, people grabbed their cameras. Tons of flashes were going off when I lit ’em up, lit ’em up big! Everyone went crazy!” Ken Belanger says with a smile. The
Do you believe in fate—the idea that someone or something is out there shaping your destiny? Being worldly types, we used to equate fate with astrology, Ouiji boards, and Miss Cleo the TV psychic. But Ed Parker has changed that. He’s a respectable citizen by day, running a company that stripes asphalt parking lots in
Bob Long’s 1954 Ford F-100 Pickup Consider Ford’s venerable F-100 pickup. It’s been around for over 50 years. It’s been customized by vast legions of Blue Oval fans, most of them born long after it came out. According to our calculations, that means at about seven kajillion customizing ideas have been tried out on the
[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
Every car guy has a story about the one that got away. You know, the Tri-5 in the old barn off of the highway, or the 40-year-old cream puff the nice lady down the street sold to someone else for $500. It can keep you awake at night. You can sit and wait for a
This country is obsessed with rating things. Thumbs up or thumbs down. Good, better, best. Four out of five stars. From movies to soda pop, actresses’ Oscar dresses and yes, cars, we Americans love to rate our stuff. But we had a tough time figuring out a way to rate Mike Zayas’ 1969 Chevelle SS396.
[portfolio_slideshow id=5727] This story originally ran in the Summit Racing catalog and first appeared on SummitRacing.com on 9/6/2007. Don Barr is a Porsche guy. His 1983 Porsche won a National Preservation Award at the 1998 National Porsche Parade in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. He used to race 944s on the weekends. And his good friend and
[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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