Hot rodding legends answer questions from the rest of us.
At times it seems as though every time we turn around, we hear of another pioneering hot rodder or mainstay of kustom culture dying. Just in the last six weeks, we lost not only Don Nicholson and...
View ArticleHoly water in the radiator: It’s the Blessing of the Cars
Maybe it’s not the most polished event in hot rodding. Actually, that’s the whole point. The annual Blessing of the Cars will invade Los Angeles’s Hansen Dam Park next Saturday, July 29, from 9 a.m. to...
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Hip-Hop and Haulers
Jennifer Hudson, of the movie Dreamgirls,walks the runway with the Cadillace Escalade at the GM Style event in Detroit, Michigan Saturday, January 6, 2007 photo courtesy GM Music and cars haven’t been...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – Frankenstein’s car
What the ad on Hemmings.com for (a clone of) Frankenstein’s car from the epic Death Race 2000 doesn’t state is that it was built by the legendary Dean Jeffries, which would normally make “the fastest...
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Four-Links – Spaceballs car, Turbo Phantom, Freddie Ford, electronic highway...
* We are indebted to Jesse, the justacarguy, for enlightening us as to the whereabouts of the hovercar from Spaceballs, one of the greatest films of all time. According to the placard with it in the...
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Customizing legend Dean Jeffries dies
Photos courtesy Tom Cotter. The man who painted the first Cobra and built the Monkeemobile, customizing legend Dean Jeffries, has died at the age of 80. As confirmed by Tom Cotter, who wrote Dean...
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Looking back on a few we lost in 2013
Phil Remington. Photo courtesy Greg Sharp, Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum. It’s tradition to look back at the end of each year, both in joy for what we’ve accomplished and in reflection for those...
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Four-Links – Cross-country Jensens, cross-country baby car, baby Wildfire,...
* What better reason for a cross-country road trip than to attend a monthly club meeting? Or, at least, that was the thinking behind the drive made by four couples in their Jensen Healeys traveling...
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Hemmings Sunday Cinema – designing the Sting Ray, Dean Jeffries, Fletch
Chevrolet sure wanted to reinforce the Corvette’s image as a sports car with its 20-minute film introducing the Corvette Sting Ray, what with the opening montage of Euro sports cars (and the...
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The forgotten “Honky Tonk Freeway” celebrates 35 years
Dean Jeffries flies a GMC C6500. Photos courtesy Kevin Jeffries and the Dean Jeffries Archives, unless otherwise noted. [Editor’s Note: This piece comes to us from Myles Kornblatt, the curator at the...
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