Wanna make jokes about the color of Al Stacko’s award-winning ride? You’d best bring your A-game material, friend, because he has heard them all and emerged unflustered. “Some guys from the Rock-n-Roll Capital Street Machines car club and I were at Autorama one year, and I had stepped away from my truck for just a minute,” Al
Contractor Bill Watkins is a sentimental man who loves his wife and his kids. His commitment to his family is so deep that he kept this project car—a fiery and fierce 1969 Plymouth Barracuda fastback—on hold for 20 years. “With the kids in school, and then traveling all summer for baseball and other activities, I
Editor’s note: This story originally appeared at SummitRacing.com on 3/22/2005. To paraphrase a Bruce Willis flick: We see slammed dualies. We see them with big motors. We see them with big bling. We see them with wild paint, trick interiors—the works. But Todd Collins’ 1990 Chevy 3500 combines all of these elements into one awesome
This story originally ran in the Summit Racing catalog and on SummitRacing.com on 8/29/2008. If by chance you ever meet Ron and Lynda Carpenter, odds are it will be while they’re at, going to, or coming from a car show or cruise-in somewhere in the Midwest. They will be hard to miss—behind the wheel of
Editor’s note: This story appeared previously at SummitRacing.com. It’s not hard to pigeonhole an early Mustang guy. Restorers keep their Ford Mustangs just like the factory made them—hose clamps, chalk marks and all. Rodders don’t give a hoot about how the factory did things. They build their Mustangs how they want them, chalk marks be
The 1962 C-1 Corvette—it was the final edition of the first generation of American sports cars to carry the famed crossed flags, and the first ride to put a serious grip on Ron Robinson’s 13-year-old imagination. “In 1963, my brother had a pretty potent 427 Ford Galaxie, and boy did he think he was the
Check out John Susong’s time machine. The spectacular 1964 Plymouth Sport Fury doesn’t have a flux capacitor, but its race-ready Hemi has the power to transport John from one end of the dragstrip to the other—in a seriously short span of time. “I wanted a 10-second machine I could drive on the street, and I
Editor’s note: This story originally appeared at SummitRacing.com on 3/12/2004. Kitchen tables are marvelously adaptable pieces of furniture. In addition to serving as the family feeding trough, kitchen tables can be used as craft centers, debating forums, and poker dens. You can even build cars on them—just ask Rick Bogoff. He always had a thing
Inspiration can strike suddenly like a bolt of lightning from a clear sky. Just ask Gary Hoffman. Gary’s been building and customizing hot rods for over 40 years. He’s well known on his local scene for his super-clean resto work and paint expertise, especially his 1961 AMC Rambler American convertible. He knows what he likes,
Editor’s note: This story originally appeared at SummitRacing.com on 11/02/2007. “Man, I’m a farmer!” Denny Tonn said. “What the heck am I doing with a car like this?” His restored and customized 1938 Chevrolet Business Coupe looks like a million bucks, but only because he spent five years and several industrial-sized cans of elbow grease
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