Cleveland AutoRama

The Brass Monkey: Doug Eldred’s 1939 Chevrolet Custom Pickup

[portfolio_slideshow id=52622] Doug Eldred is a true hot rod guy. He owns Eldred Hotrod Shop in Edinboro, PA, but when he’s not overseeing builds and wrenching on customer projects, he prefers to focus on his hobbies. It just so happens that one of his favorite hobbies is building and hot rodding custom vehicles like this 1939 Chevrolet Custom

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Cleveland AutoRama Quick Feature: 1970 ‘Scramjet’ Camaro

[portfolio_slideshow id=41540] Say hi to the Scramjet. It’s a 1970 Chevrolet Camaro that can be largely operated from a smartphone mobile app. What? Exactly. It’s essentially a remote control custom Camaro concept. “To drive the Scramjet with a cellphone, the driver accesses the app set aside for the car. The screen then offers several options,

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Real Cheese: A Closer Look at a Rare 1963 “Swiss Cheese” Catalina

[portfolio_slideshow id=41509] People do crazy things in the name of performance. For example, in an effort to remain on top of the Super Stock class in the 1960s, Pontiac drilled approximately 120 holes into the frame rails (see image below) of a select few of its Catalinas for 1963. The idea was to reduce as much weight

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Photo Gallery: Cleveland I-X Piston Powered Auto-Rama

“If a piston makes it go, it’s in this show.” That’s what the promotional materials for the Summit Racing I-X Piston Powered Auto-Rama claimed. But with the show taking place just about 30 miles away from OnAllCylinders’ world headquarters, we needed to see for ourselves. So, while most sane people in our area were heading south for spring

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Ohio Hot Rod Builder Resurrects Larry Nagel’s Pocket Rocket

John T. Francis was 7 years old the first time he saw the Pocket Rocket blast down Thompson Drag Raceway. He will never forget it, he said. “It didn’t make any noise when it was sitting at the line,” Francis said. “It was so small. And so fast.” Francis was sitting at his computer one

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