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
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
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