Issue# 32

Rodding USA

By Hot Rodders for Hot Rodders

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2018 Kansas City World of Wheels
PHOTOS AND TEXT BY DENNIS W. PARKS While this winter’s weather has been relatively mild in the midwest, it has been unseasonably cold. If you have a hot rod project in the works, that is not a big problem, as it typically affords us more garage tim
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2018 Boise Roadster Show
PHOTOS & WORDS: KEN SANDERS Founded in 1973 by the late Bill New, brothers Scott, John and Brad now run the very successful Boise Roadster Show. For the last 46 years the show has been held at the Expo Boise Show Grounds attracting close to 200 ent
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Dream Car 1940 FORD DELUXE CONVERTIBLE
PHOTOS & TEXT: ALAN ZUSMAN For over forty-five years the car I always wanted was a 1940 Ford Deluxe convertible. Lance Railsback, an average street rodder, not hot rodder growing up, calling his freshly restored brandy red forty Ford his “Dream Car”
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Rodding News
Deuce Days Northwest, the largest 1932 Ford show in the world is just around the corner and show chairman Al Clark wanted to let the readers of Rodding USA know that registration has opened as of May 1, 2018 for the July 18-21, 2019 event. Al mention
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36 Ford… Ambr Contender
PHOTOS: PAUL MARTINEZ WORDS: DALE BOESCH/BUILDER 1936 FORD ROADSTER (Editor’s Note: Dale Boesch, owner of Boesch Auto Body handed me 11 pages of hand-written notes describing the process it took to build this stunning 1936 Ford which was entered in
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TECH AIR FLOW, ELEMENTS, WEATHER & COMFORT
BY BOB DRAKE PHOTOS: BOB DRAKE REPRODUCTIONS When the automobiles were first introduced to the masses all of the topics above were little more than an afterthought. After all, automobiles did evolve from carts, wagons and carriages, pulled behind
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Miss Piggy
PHOTOS AND STORY: PAUL MARTINEZ 1955 CHEVY BEL AIR Deuce collector Greg Morris of Hugoton, Kansas purchased this 1955 Chevy Bel Air in 1964 for $500.00. It was running the original 265 cubic inch V8 until Greg and his friends blew up the engine. He p
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For Sale 1932 Ford…$450.00
PHOTOS & WORDS: PAUL MARTINEZ 1932 FORD COUPE Having grown up in Southern California, Craig Wallace built and drove a 1929 Ford hiboy during his high school years in Camarillo. After high school he decided it was time for a new project and to fund it
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2018 Spokane Speed and Custom Show
PHOTOS & WORDS: KEN SANDERS After a seven-year period without any large indoor car shows in Spokane, ISCA judge and local resident Brian Anderson took the plunge and organized the first Annual Spokane Speed and Custom car show which was held April
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’36 Fords and Postal Delays
By Paul Martinez Paul Martinez/Publisher 1936 Ford roadsters This issue presents a contrast of styles when it comes to building 1936 Ford roadsters from “old school” powered by a flathead to “state-of-the-art” with a fuel injected 392 Hemi under the
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Hot Rod Education Days In Louisville!
By: Todd Ryden The Hot Rod Industry Alliance is looking forward to bringing their popular Hot Rod Education Days back to the NSRA Nationals in Louisville in 2018! These seminars provide you an outstanding opportunity to get first-hand knowledge and
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Project Hot Rod Roadster Pickup
Project RPU is heading into the home stretch with the finish line in sight. Charles Spencer/Charly’s Garage has been hard at work completing the bodywork and spraying color on the sheet metal and chassis. All of the chrome from Jon Wright’s Custom Ch
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Shifting Paradigms Get Your Act In Gear
PHOTOS & TEXT: LANE ANDERSON The transmission incorporated in this project is a 700-R4 automatic overdrive from our donor S-10 truck. Once the transmission is put in gear it will do the rest by itself. But we need to be able to select Forward, Revers
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’36 Ford… Old School Build
PHOTOS & WORDS: PAUL MARTINEZ 1936 FORD ROADSTER When you acquire your first Ford Model A at 10 years old it’s probably a given you are going to spend your life as a car guy. Jack Pieknik grew up in Michigan and his dad had a filling station which al
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Chattanooga 2018
PHOTOGRAPHY & WORDS: TOMMY LEE BYRD Coker Tire performed an experiment back in 2011. The idea was to create a laid-back cruise-in event, in an effort to raise local awareness about the company and welcome local car enthusiasts to tour the cool facil
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Rodding Products
THE top six drawers have 200# ball bearing slides; the bottom two drawers have double 200# slides. All feature .080” aluminum construction with no welded seams to flex and crack. All the drawers come with ball bearing slides and a proprietary side la
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It’s Chevrolet A Fairway
PHOTOS & WORDS: PAUL MARTINEZ 1941 CHEVY COUPE When you’ve grown up in and around the family Chevrolet dealership the odds are stacked in favor of you becoming a Chevy guy. Of course when you are in Las Vegas it’s best to play the odds and that bring
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Part 1 The Boneyard The Neon Museum
Neon Museum Photography: Paul Martinez & The Neon Museum (Photo courtesy of The Neon Museum) Founded in 1996, the Neon Museum is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to collecting, preserving, studying and exhibiting iconic Las Vegas signs

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