Demons and Hellcats—no, they’re not mythical beasts— but modern Mopars with diabolical horsepower available right now, right off the dealer lot. You can trace the DNA of these high-performance monsters directly back to 1965 and the Dodge Coronet A990. Built for speed and not much else, the lightweight, limited-edition B-body reigned supreme on the drag
Very few of us can remember a time before we were car guys. Ever since that first ride home from the hospital, cars have helped define who we are. And every day after, we’ve never lost that passion for anything with four wheels and an engine. Jim Wilkins, the owner of this incredible 1967 Nova
[portfolio_slideshow id=64194] Photography: Todd Biss Productions “Done.” Ask a dozen builders for the definition, and you’ll get a dozen different answers. For some, their car is done when it runs. For others, it’s a wrap after body and paint. Meanwhile, many projects are never truly finished. For the father-daughter team of Danny and Danielle Tackett,
Good or bad, a lot can happen to a long-in-the-tooth pony car over the course of 10 years. But, if the car’s lucky enough to fall into the skilled hands of Jason Frazer, you can bet the results will be spectacular. Frazer poured a decade of meticulous on-again, off-again work into his 1965 Ford Mustang,
Sure, Tony Pidala can bend iron and steel at his will, but is he a superhero? The soft-spoken man has the vision of an artist and the courage to do things his own way. In fact, his heavy-metal masterpiece—this 1928 Ford Model A truck—rolls on six wheels because, as Pidala puts it: “I thought it’d be
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
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
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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