- Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance
Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance
- Grand National Roadster Show
Grand National Roadster Show
- A made-in-Kansas-City engine comes to life once again
A made-in-Kansas-City engine comes to life once again
- Larry Urey’s track roadster
Larry Urey’s track roadster
- Paul Geivett
Paul Geivett
- '69 Hurst/Olds Prototype
’69 Hurst/Olds Prototype
- The Silver Bullet
The Silver Bullet
- The Silver Arrows at Goodwood
The Silver Arrows at Goodwood
Classic Car Stories
Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance
A great way to shake the winter blahs AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. — Car enthusiasts know it’s spring in Florida when Amelia is blooming with chrome and the quivering palms echo with the warble of high-h
Grand National Roadster Show
POMONA, Calif. — Ten buildings at the Pomona Fairplex house what has become the granddaddy of the hot-rod, custom-car shows: The Grand National Roadster Show, now in its 64th year. Held on Jan.
A made-in-Kansas-City engine comes to life once again
http://youtu.be/3K8o0PsmRko On a warm Saturday morning in mid November, John L. Baeke and Rick Hulett squirted some starting fluid into the downdraft carburetor atop a centrifugal supercharger an
Larry Urey's track roadster
HUNGTINGTON BEACH, Ca. — Every Saturday morning for the last 27 years, at a tiny donut shop in a strip mall on the corner of Magnolia and Adams streets, hot rodders have met to grab a donut, dri
Paul Geivett
Paul Geivett builds amazing scale model cars from scratch Paul Geivett got a D in shop class at William Chrisman High School because, instead of the project his teacher assigned, he built a g
The Silver Bullet
Here's a video I made of Dana Forrester's 1965 Sting Ray. http://youtu.be/02BKcvRB7io
'69 Hurst/Olds Prototype
Intensive research reveals that this was the '69 prototype made for George Hurst When Marc Jungerman bought a 1969 Hurst/Olds Cutlass a little over a year ago, little did he know that this car woul
The Silver Arrows at Goodwood
This marvelous video from Mercedes-Benz makes me wish I had gone this year. http://youtu.be/OCV0dmzHwGw?hd=1
1957 Chevy pickup
Tony Chacon of LaHabra, Calif., loved his 1957 Chevy pickup so much that he tinkered with it for nearly 50 years. When he died in 2006 at the age of 80, his planned restoration was still incompl
Long-distance friends
Cars have a way of creating bonds between people even when they are separated by the Atlantic Ocean. Just ask Glynne Shackleton and Don Armacost, Jr., who have forged a long-distance friendship by v
The Maserodi 8CVTR
Sometimes with hot rods, it’s what you can’t see that really counts. That’s certainly the case with Charlie Little’s pale green 1929 Ford roadster that he lovingly calls the Maserodi. It h
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Tom Strongman
Tom Strongman has covered the automotive industry for more than 25 years as the Contributing Editor for the Kansas City Star. His work also appears in the St. Louis Suburban Journals, the Columbus Dispatch, Universal UClick syndicate and Home and Away Magazine. Send e-mail to Tom@Tomstrongman.com