Gary Minchin’s 1933 Dodge “Rat Rod”

Johnny Cash sang of the hardships of trying to assemble a Cadillac from stolen parts of many model years in his 1976 hit, “One Piece At A Time.”  As the song says, there was a little bit of every Caddy from the 1950′s through to the 1970′s. With all due respect, the late, great Mr. [...]

Daily Roddin’: June 29th 2009

With all the racing stripes adorning musclecars out there, it’s cool to see someone take the factory GM stripes and make them their own.  The tribal look of these decals definitely makes it stand out from other Chevy machines at cruise night. For more Bitchin’ Camaros like this, check out “History of the Camaro, Part [...]

Daily Roddin’: June 28th, 2009

This eye-popping collection of pedal cars is courtesy of the Lucky Devils Car Club of Winnipeg, MB.  Vintages range from the 30′s to a 1966 Mustang pedal car sold at Ford dealerships for Christmas of that year.

Daily Roddin’: June 27th, 2009

Today, Cadillac is associated with grey-haired grannies and cranky old men slowly driving to the golf course, where they do a really slow round and never offer to let you play through.  Hard to believe in 1956 that Cadillac could pull off an aggressive look like this.

Daily Roddin’: June 26th, 2009

Complain all you want, but there’s a silver lining to the sudden lack of original sheetmetal; virtually any old car is cool again.  If this guy pulled into a car show like this ten years ago, they would have put him in the parking lot out back with the Escorts and Cimmarons.  Today, seeing a [...]

Daily Roddin’: June 25th 2009

If you’re looking for a fun motorized toy, but you’re stuck between a $10,000 Honda that’ll last you until you’re sick of it (but still making payments), or a $500 Canadian Tire quad that’ll last you to the end of this sentence, have we got news for you. This is the Gio Lambo racing quad [...]

Daily Roddin’: June 24, 2009

With the increasing popularity of oldskool & rat-rods, old speedometers like this are worth their weight in gold.

Top Video Wednesday

With Schumacher’s unveiling as The Stig from BBC’s hit TV show “Top Gear,” it’s about time we had a second look at this Ferrari FXX that he drove on the show.  Considering this car is machined from a solid block of Awesome (which in turn was made from recycled cans of Whoop-Ass), everything I say [...]

1990 Ford Tempo Hot Rod

Some of you might have seen this car before, in our book “Class of 2009,” or from a certain Bangshift.com forum thread… …and probably a few of you were wondering how you could hop-up what appears to be a mid-90′s Mercury Topaz.  Honestly, who even makes hi-performance parts for a mid-size family car? Nobody, that’s [...]

The Stig Takes His Helmet Off!

Most of you know about a little TV show on the BBC (not Coronation Street) that’s been egging on gearheads with zany antics, witty humor, and “build-a-car” challenges that are somewhere between stupidly dangerous and stupidly hillarious (dangerous/hillarious, same thing really). That show is called Top Gear, and it’s by far one of the most [...]