March - April 2024

Rodding USA

By Hot Rodders for Hot Rodders

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Rodding USA
Publisher/Executive Editor: Paul Martinez paulm@roddingusa.com (520) 444-5603 Feature Editors: Dale Moreau, Ken Sanders, Dennis W. Parks Contributors: Sherm Porter, Charlie Hughes, Alan Zusman, Lil' John Harvey, Stephan Szantai, Joshua Elzey, Bob Dan
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Museums
I was born in Tucson, Arizona, and have lived here most of my life. It's interesting how you can live somewhere and find that you don't always know as much about your hometown as you think you do. Recently, the Tucson Street Rod Association, the loca
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Peddling into Rodding
Let's go back in time to your first introduction to cars. Not what dad or mom drove, but the car YOU first got behind the wheel of. For many, it was peddlepowered. These little steel replicas sparked the interest in cars for many. It may also have be
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Rodding News
Sage Speed and Custom held an open house on February 18 at their Phoenix, AZ headquarters for local rodders and car enthusiasts. Several hundred rodders showed up to take a tour of the manufacturing process. SSC was founded in July 2020 by Chris Sage
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Tucson Auto Museum
The Tucson Auto Museum is dedicated to preserving automobiles from around the world. The museum was started eight years ago as a passion project of a private collector and has grown to over ninety cars. Now, as a local 501(c)(3) non-profit organizati
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Red Hot & Rollin'
If you have ever been on a quest for the perfect car, and luck comes your way, you might run across one. Let's face it, that perfect car comes in many forms, depending upon the eyes of the beholder. The world changed in 1955 when GM introduced the Ch
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Canadian Sport Coupe
Back in the '20s and '30s, when automakers were introducing new models, it was quite common to have a short transition period where the new model had parts from the previous one included with it. Grant Chitty's Canadian-manufactured 1928 Model A Spor
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Rising From Its Ashes Utah “Fast Pass” 2006
2006 was our Inaugural Year of UTAH FAST PASS; we had 40 supercars from all over the world participating. The participants would pay about ten grand to participate. The FAST PASS was a 100% charity to help crippled children, Navajo Christmas, familie
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Barrett - Jackson Scottsdale Auction RECORD-BREAKING: 207.6 MILLION IN SALES
If you've never attended the winter Barrett-Jackson auction in person, you're missing out. Yes, almost everyone has seen the event on television. Still, you have to attend it in person to get the entire experience of the people, the excitement of hig
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Jake's Roadster
Jim “Jake” Jacobs, a name synonymous with traditional hot rodding has instilled his extraordinary talents to produce another iconic hot rod. This time, his car of choice is a 1928 Ford Roadster that was conceived to hold a unique engine that had been
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Detroit: The City of Hot Rods & Muscle Cars
Muscle cars and hot rodding didn't just change Detroit automotive culture; they reimagined it. The ability to control raw power on an open road without checkered flags or pace cars, with distant frontiers beckoning, came to symbolize the unbridled fr
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Bob Galbraith's 1929 Ford Panel Truck
We all have been inspired by various hot rods over the years. Still, we all have that one specific hot rod that is laser-etched into the back of our skulls so deeply that no amount of body filler could ever fill it in. That hot rod may have been park
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Henry Dana Foundation
Henry Dana was more than just an icon in the street rod community; he was a wealth of knowledge and a friend to many. His passion for cars led him to establish Dana's Hot Rods in Fort Pierce, Florida in the late '70s. However, in 1995 Henry and his w
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Hot Rods for Henry Show Port Saint Lucie, Florida
On October 21, 2023, car enthusiasts from near and far gathered at the picturesque Clover Park in Port St Lucie Florida for a day filled with classic cars and street rods for a meaningful cause hosted by the Henry Dana Foundation. The 2nd Annual Hot
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Stock or Not?
PHOTO LOCATION: Arizona Model A, LLC - Chandler, AZ My Dad, John Whitfield, purchased this 1940 Ford Standard Coupe in Pennsylvania in June 1954 for $100 and was the second owner. The original owner had the car for 14 years but had inherited a low-mi
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Gnrs 2024
During the days leading up to the February 2-4 Grand National Roadster Show, weather predictions called for devastating rains in Southern California on Thursday and Sunday. We arrived on Wednesday. The skies were partly cloudy, and then the rain made
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Roxanne
So-Cal resident Gary Stell Jr. can look back fondly at his teen years when he and his father worked on old cars in their garage. His dad's business car was a '63 Volkswagen Bug, which he'd drive back and forth from Buena Park to Los Angeles every day
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Photographer Showcase
LOCATION: DENVER, COLORADO
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Dealer Network
CHARLY'S GARAGE 948 W. 1st Avenue Mesa, AZ 85210 (480) 833-9080 DON'S HOT ROD SHOP 2811 N. Stone Avenue Tucson, AZ 85705 (520) 884-8892 VINTAGE PARTS OF ARIZONA 3427 E. McDowell Road Phoenix, AZ 85008 (800) 732-0076 AUTOBOOKS-AEROBOOKS 2900 W.Magnoli
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Artist's Showcase
ARTIST: TOM SAPP

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