Good friend and master craftsman, Steve Sellers, has been building genre-defining customs and hot rods for a few years now out of his San Jose, CA shop, Sellers Equipped (here) and you’ll probably remember the feature we did on him (here).
Take a good look at what he’s got going on over there – I think Steve [...]

 
I finally got my own bottle of Crystal Head Vodka.  Its a celebrity-endorsed fancy tasteless liquor filtered through imitation diamonds into a spooky bottle designed by a famous American landscape artist built by a fancy Italian glass manufacturer- c’mon.
 
Check out the video if you need more convincing.  Akroyd’s nutty delivery makes this dodgy-mysticism-inspired product a rock-solid [...]

Issue 14 
The Real Acme
The Glorious Insanity of Turbonique
By David Burge
 
 

Most of us have, at one time or another, heard the old urban legend about a friend of an uncle of a friend of a cousin of a guy who stole a JATO rocket motor from an Air Force base, strapped it atop a Chevy Impala, and [...]

I was in Pennsylvania last week, exploring a feature we’ve been working on for about a year. As it sometimes happens, other things are discovered on trips like this and as I was driving the rental ‘07 Pontiac Hunkashit around central PA, I got to thinking about the video the boys at Draplin Design are [...]

In the last issue, David Burge took us over the border into Juarez with Mike Lightbourn – the guy who discovered the remains of Ed Roth’s Orbitron – and embarked on the haphazard journey of one of the greatest car culture archaeological digs of the century. The Orbitron was found and was destined for more [...]

…and an original Tudor with its original owner driving down the California coast this afternoon. Somewhere near Ojai.

Issue 11
Dick Allen Didn’t Take It With Him
Images: Bruce Parrish Collection
 

 
The origin of the custom chopper is a mysterious one, its history lost in a haze of drugs, sex and the illicit free-spirit. It’s a story that is not documented, save word of mouth and small town tales passed down from one person to the [...]

Friend to all hotrodders (and anyone else who likes to do neat stuff), Iowahawk has created an abridged history of the most influential car this planet has ever seen on his blog (here).He can’t let that kewl little history lesson go without his Top 10 list of favorite Model T hot rods and we have [...]

An old buddy of mine from the Washington, DC area, is a hotrodder. But he’s into VeeDubs. Now, that doesn’t mean Jason is any less a real hotrodder – he builds his own motors, modifies his cars, makes his own stuff…hell, I’ve even seen him attempt as many different personalized VA license plates as he could [...]