This Guy’s Garage – Rick Baumgart, Swisher, IADon’t hate on Rick Baumgart’s mega garage – be inspired! This Guy’s Garage a Photo Gallery: This Guy’s Garage – Rick Baumgart, Swisher, IA – Car Craft Magazine This Guy’s Garage – Rick Baumgart, Swisher, IA | Digg It | Add to del.icio.us
Track-Day Third-Gen Camaro – Extra Photos!We Can’t Remember The Last Time We Said, “Wow, That’s A Radical Third-Gen” At least half of the HOT ROD staff saw Austin Gerding’s ’87 Camaro carving up the autocross course during the ’12 HOT ROD Power Tour®, and we were dying to know the Read more…
With Aunt Helen’s BlessingA Max Wedge, a Race Hemi, and Love-Hate Relationships In the late ’50s the management at Chrysler Corporation was taking serious aim at the performance market. Chrysler 300s, Dodge D500s, and Plymouth Furys laid down the initial gauntlet. By 1960 the company had introduced a new induction Read more…
1936 Custom Ford – Iron FistIt’s Metal. What Did You Expect from James Hetfield’s 1936 Custom ford? Metallica frontman James Hetfield has been a car guy for years. If you’ve ever seen the video for Metallica’s song “Fuel,” which is a 41?2-minute montage of street racing muscle cars and burnouts, Read more…
1974 Ford Maverick – Homebuilt BrawlerEvery piece of this LS-powered Maverick has passed through Russ’ hands. There’s no excuse for paying someone to work on your car when you can handle the work yourself. Sure, machine work and other aspects of a build can be farmed out, but for Russ Read more…
1941 Willys Pickup – The Comeback KidUnless it’s undergone some dramatic metamorphosis, it’s rare for a car to appear twice in a given magazine within, say, 40 years. It’s harder yet for one to return after appearing in a readers’ rides column; in fact, unless a car is under construction Read more…
’78 Malibu Station Wagon – 5-DoorFind out why John’s nickname is “five door.” In 2004, John Tell of Spring Lake Park, Minnesota, wanted something that would be competitive—but also noticed—in the street-racing scene. “The choice was clearly a station wagon. This was also how I got the nickname ‘five-door.’ I Read more…
’70 Yenko Deuce – Mission AccomplishedA 15-Year Search Turns Up a One-Owner Deuce In May 2012, the Chevrolet supercar world went Code Red when a man in Pennsylvania uncovered a Yenko Deuce Nova. Incredibly, the red ’70 model was still in the hands of its original owner. a Photo Gallery: Read more…
Beaten DailyPriorities are a huge determining factor in the way a car looks and performs, and it’s a broad spectrum from the high-dollar chrome trinkets of show cars to the race-inspired details of hardcore street machines. Priorities are a huge determining factor in the way a car looks and performs, Read more…
Cruising The Cabriolet WayCustomized in the ’50s and parked since the ’60s, this ’36 Ford is back where it belongs – and still in style. GIFTED. Despite the mechanical and styling improvements made to the Ford lineup in 1936, and the milestone two-millionth Ford V8 made, hot rodders didn’t get Read more…