Columbus, OH – Lady’s came first at the Goodguys 13th PPG Nationals presented by Bridgestone. At least when it came to picking the country’s top Street Machine.
Karen Leisinger’s radical all steel first-gen 1967 Camaro “Scar”, built by Lakeside Rods & Rides in Rockwell City, Iowa took home the Goodguys 2010 Ridetech Street Machine of the Year award. Leisinger, a first-gen Camaro lover wanted a car that featured extreme performance while combining the looks of a 1967 with some of the design and style elements of the new 2010 Camaros.
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Published on 07-11-2010 03:21 PM
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Columbus, OH - “Magnitude” – Jerry Magnuson’s sleek and stylish ’32 Muroc roadster hand formed by Marcel and designed by Chip Foose was crowned Goodguys 2010 Classic Instruments Street Rod of the Year during the Goodguys 13th PPG Nationals presented by Bridgestone. It’s been a great season for Jerry and his street rod on the Goodguys event tour having won the Street Rod d’Elegance Crown this spring at the Goodguys Del Mar Nationals.
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We have 4 18×8 steel rallyes powder coated silver 5-4 3/4bp with a 5 1/2″ back space for $250.00ea plus shipping. Please call our sales staff at 559-251-6957 for any questions or to order wheels
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CPP’s exclusive spindle design lowers cars a full 2” without affecting the steering or suspension geometry. This allows these spindles to be used with a wide range of disc brake applications including our popular 11” Standard Brake Kit and our new 13” Big Brake kits.
The fullsize spindles are cast from the highest quality Ductile Iron with CNC machined Chrome-moly pins, while the midsize spindles are made from 1050 forged steel. The unique design accepts factory ball joints and stock steering arms.
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Mecum to offer Ed "Big Daddy" Roth's Tweedy Pie at the 2010 Monterey Auction
Marengo, IL - June 28, 2010 -- Mecum Auction will offer the Ed "Big Daddy" Roth Tweedy Pie - a 1923 Ford T-bucket - at its second annual Mecum Monterey Auction, August 13-14, 2010, at the Hyatt Regency Monterey Resort & Spa.
Tweedy Pie became an instant American hot rodding icon when replica model car company Revell issued it as a car kit in 1963.
"All enthusiasts from that era remember wanting this particular model car," said President Dana Mecum. "That first year, millions of Tweedy Pie model cars flew off the shelves comparable to record sales from such pop phenomenon as The Beatles, immediately catapulting this vehicle into mainstream culture."
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CPP’s new Complete Rear Dual Adjustable Coil-Over Kit is designed to convert your 1963-72 Chevy truck to a corner carving, performance driving vehicle! Our kit includes our new Totally Tubular Trailing arms, coil over springs and dual adjustable coil over shocks and all the mounting hardware to make this rear suspension
Get that cool street rod stance and track proven performance for your 1963-87 Chevrolet C10 Truck! Our Complete Front Coil-Over Conversion Kits include dual-adjustable coil-over shocks, spanner wrench and bearing kit, our Totally Tubular™ upper and lower control arms, and all the mounting brackets and hardware for a simple bolt-on installation.
Sue Vanderbilt in a 1958 Cadillac Eldorado Seville “Baroness;" the show car that she styled for the Feminine Show. When you look back at General Motors’ rich design history, one of the most talented individuals, who made her career as part of GM’s vaunted Creative Design Team, was the late Suzanne E. Vanderbilt.
Vanderbilt was one of the original Damsels of Design – a group of eight, great talented female designers that the famed Harley Earl hired during the early days of the 1950s.
Throughout history, the Oldsmobile story has inspired many automotive historians with its rich and celebrated heritage which started right in Michigan’s capital city of Lansing.
I remember a particularly exciting year in 1978 when Oldsmobile introduced their new line of vehicles and automotive catalogues to the buying public. My first impression was that Oldsmobile was using 1978 to create a family-oriented lineup of new cars. The company used its advertising and marketing to highlight many traditional family values
The year 1966 was a great year for automotive sales in the U.S. Many car manufacturers were doing very well for the economy and in 1966 the average cost for a new Dodge vehicle sold for $ 2,280 and the price of gasoline for 32 cents a gallon.
The Chrysler Corporation was also doing very well within the automotive markets with its popular Dodge Dart models. The 1966 Dodge Dart models made their debut in Dodge dealerships on September 30, 1965.
Based on a 1956 Chevrolet 210 Sedan, this recently completed mild custom was built to showcase the timeless factory “Tri-Five” heritage. With a new GM Performance ZZ4 power plant backed by a factory-fresh GM 700R4 transmission, it is equipped with rack-and-pinion steering, four-wheel Wilwood disc
To ensure that Shelby American would have its 1966 GT350 models in dealerships when Ford released the new ‘66 Mustangs, Shelby ordered an additional 252 cars from Ford’s San Jose plant at the very end of 1965 production. These ‘change-over’ cars (often referred to as ‘carry-overs’) were essentially Shelby-spec ’65 GT350s, and received the same performance modifications,
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