- Written by webmin
Following the excellent gallery of photos from the Oakland roadster show in the 1980s, we got to wondering whatever happened to most of those show cars from that era. With the amount of time and energy invested into them, they surely haven’t been crushed, and we can’t imagine many of them seeing regular street use, […]
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Tagged ford, Ford Model Y, Hemmings Find of the Day, hot rods and customs, John Pappert, Ridler, Ridler award
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Following a link in a comment the other day led us to what is, possibly, the greatest Flickr photo set we’ve seen in recent memory (aside from, of course, the photosets contributed to the Hemmings Nation Flick pool). Fred Childers was a frequent visitor to the Grand National Roadster Show when it was held in […]
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Last year at the SEMA show in Las Vegas, GM Performance Parts made big news with the debut of its E-Rod program of smog-legal crate engine packages. The concept involves using production-based performance engines coupled with their own engine management controllers and wiring harnesses, along with exhaust manifolds and catalytic converters, evaporative emissions canister and […]
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Tagged California Air Resources Board, CARB, E-rod, GM, Hemmings Daily, hot rods and customs, LS-series V-8, products, SEMA