Magnatude finishes street rod sweep

As far as street rods go, 2010 will be remembered as the year of the Magnatude sweep, now that Jerry Magnuson’s custom-built roadster took all three of the major street rod awards handed out by Goodguys this year, becoming the first street rod ever to accomplish that feat.
Over the weekend, Magnatude won the America’s Most […]

Under the hood of the Schenck streamliner

So despite my devout adoration of the Ralph Schenck streamliner, I wasn’t able to make it out to Monterey last month to check out the debut of the streamliner’s freshly restored chassis, fitted with a reproduction body. Don Ziegler made it all better recently, however, when he sent along this photo of the streamliner I’d […]

RIP, Larry Alexander

Customs were not purely a West Coast phenomenon, as a pair of brothers from Detroit proved. Larry and Mike Alexander, the famed Alexander brothers, began customizing cars out of their father’s garage in the mid-1950s and went on to land enough business customizing cars to quit their day jobs and open a shop of their […]