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From our readers – Civil (hot) vehicles by Hakan Guney

April 19, 2014
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In my previous post I already told you about Hakan Guney’s work. It was too much stuff to squeeze into one post, so here you have more. I’m sure you didn’t have enough, right? Among his most “traditional” civil vehicles, you’ll find 2 great hot rods: a ’27 Ford and a ’36 Ford Coupe . Another great project is […]

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From our Readers – Denny, Clayton and Kerry

September 27, 2012
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Denny sent us a sample of his racers – all junked. Really cool work! I liked the one covered – it has some kind of “barn find” spirit… if you know what I mean – could be a great theme for an old school stock car.   Clayton sent me an email a while ago […]

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Hot Rod Magazine, Cool Hot Rod and Thrill Driver’s Choice [vintage videos]

September 20, 2012
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We love all vintage. That’s nothing new. Every now and then I discover a hidden internet treasures. This time, I found a youtube channel featuring great original vintage footage from the 50’s.   Ingenuity In Action (1959) The first video, “Ingenuity In Action” is one of my favorites. An original Hot Rod Magazine video showing […]

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From our Readers – Victor Ortiz’s 1/43 and 1/12 scale dioramas

September 18, 2012
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Victor Ortiz is one of our readers from Mexico. He have been building scale models and dioramas for almost all his life and has an extensive model car collection. He recently shared some of his work with us. As he builds in many different scales You’ll find from 1/8 scale highly detailed cars to 1/43 […]

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Argentina Road Trip – Cool Rides

April 10, 2012
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Sharing these pics with you is like making the road trip once more. Every time I look for pics to add into this post series, all those awesome road trip feelings come back to me. Every mile or kilometer was a discovery. In this post, I want to show you some of the coolest rides […]

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1937 Ford Pickup – Rat Rod

January 10, 2012
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A few months ago I went to Bottrop Kustom Kulture in Germany with a group of friends of Trashers Club (The Netherlands). On the way to the show I made a few videos. Here you have Skip’s 1937 Ford Pickup Rat rod. A damn cool thing! Enjoy it!

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KIT REVIEW – 32 Ford 5-Window Coupe by Revell

January 7, 2012
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Many of you may remember the 1932 Ford Street Rod by Monogram from years ago. I can recall my brother building that car about 20 years ago. The kit was great back then. I bought it some time later. Now, why bothering getting the 32 Ford 5-Window Coupe by Revell then? It is a very […]

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’32 Ford Rat Rod – The 24 hs of Le Junk #1

August 14, 2011
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A few weeks ago we spontaneously decided to build a rat rod out of Iggy’s parts box. The project was done within 24 hs including all scratch builded parts, painting, etc. Afterwards we decided to start a series of projects that we’ll be doing within 24 hs and we called it “The 24 hs of Le Junk“. […]

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36 Ford Hot Rod Junker 1/25 scale from AMT

April 17, 2011
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This 36 Ford is based on the 3-in-1 AMT kit many of you know. It took me some time to figure out how I wanted to build this car – specially while thinking about the question “fenders / no fenders”. I went for “no fenders”, as you can see. I saved the fenders for the […]

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Hot Rod Poetry – When car had fins

March 11, 2011
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If you don’t know this guy, then you have been missing something! Richard Peek (rpeek on youtube) has been posting some great videos on youtube about his music, his projects and his love for good old cars. This video is a slide show of some cool rides with a poem written by him and recited […]

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