Organizers share secrets of a successful event

Customized Cord L-29 was a Brooks Stevens favorite

Learning to get the paint from a gun onto a surface without it sagging, running or being too dry is not a skill, it is an art and an art that can only be perfected by practice, practice, practice.

Rare pedal car shows off at Arizona 'hot spot'

Bill Colford has had a lot of Honda 600s. Almost more than he can count. Pretty much every day since 1989, he has had at least one of the little landmark Hondas in his garage or driveway. But he’s never had, or even seen, one any nicer than his fully restored 1972 Z600 coupe, and he probably never will.

A lot of bang for the buck and an instant hit for Plymouth.

Olds fan finds a truly 'Super' 88 hiding in the Wisconsin cheese

Many scratch-built custom creations were fully backyard efforts with fundamental engineering based on production car technology, but Norman Timbs’ car was very different. So was Timbs. He was a skilled mechanical engineer who’d earlier designed the 1947, ’48 and ’49 Indy 500-winning Blue Crown Specials, driven by Bill Holland and Mauri Rose, and worked with the irrepressible Preston Tucker on the Tucker 48 Torpedo design. Timbs' was an unsual builder, and his amazing "Timbs Special" roadster was a creation was unlike any other.

Joe Fougerousse has always had a taste for originality and wanted something different from the rest of the crowd. That’s partly, he said, what steered him toward cars made by American Motors Corp. Once he started driving AMCs, he became convinced they were better cars than many of their counterparts. One of Fougerousse’s claims to fame these days is that he owns a 1968 AMC Rebel SST convertible that ranks among the finest specimens of that particular make and model in existence.

"Mods" and "Rods" — they are both loosely defined terms in the "Car Guy Dictionary." But are they interchangeable? Not really, but the cars they refer to have some definite similarities.