Custom cars have defined the story of Dana Hinkle’s life. He grew up in the sunny lands of San Diego, California, reading through piles of his old man’s car magazines from the 1960’s and marvelling at all that chrome, the amazing paintwork and the am

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If there is a breed of race car that stood out as the wild child of the sixties, it had to be the blown fuel altereds. Stuffing a nitro-snorting motor into a short wheelbase chassis, which was partially cloaked in an old style body, was indeed a reci

Circa 2006, Adam Sayers embarked on a new project. Well, sort of. He did buy a 1930 Model A sedan though, which he then used as a garden shed for a number of years… before it went on to be relocated to his dad’s house, where its function in life rema

Event: Top Field Car Show Date: 6 August Venue: Ruan Minor, Cornwall Held in the village of Ruan Minor in Cornwall, last summer the Top Field Car Show was back for its second year. Held alongside a classic and vintage rally, the one-day show had ever

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Burnout queen, Sylvia Hauser, passed away in her sleep on Easter Sunday. Having tried her hand at banger racing she felt the need for more speed and bought herself a ’66 Mustang which she ran unofficially on a disused airfield. She then ventured to S

Reigning champion Liam McDonald meant business from the word go, setting the pace throughout qualifying as Teddy Howe and twice championship runnerup Luke Muggridge led the chasing field. Into eliminations, McDonald had luck on his side as first Sam

Over the years, Gary Gunn has established Loaded Gunn Racing as having a proven track record across a multitude of motoring genres. The Wiltshire-based company has an enviable reputation when it comes to building classic and contemporary race cars, s

When high end interior designer and all-round car guy, Brook Anderson, approached Valley Gas Speed Shop with the idea of building a limited run of re-imagined Jensen Interceptors, he started out on a path that was never going to be an easy one. Jimmy

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The rain had been incessant leading up to the start of March, so it was a very welcome surprise to find myself standing in the middle of the exposed North Weald airfield on a Sunday afternoon shooting the shit, with the sun on my back, not actually w

July 2002 issue. then editor Kev Elliott penned a feature entitled The Headhunter, the name given by Sue and Dave Wright to their ’59 Chevy wagon. The car was referred to as a Tiki and Los Banditos-inspired wagon, hailing from the Southlands of Poole

“It were Covid really,” says Bryan Whitfield, “that’s when it all started…” When what started? I asked. “The silly ideas,” he laughs. He does a lot of laughing, does ‘our’ Bryan. “I’d not long retired – well, sort of – and Ian [Tubb, the other consti

The East Side Invitational, a traditional kustom car, nostalgic hot rod and vintage chopper show run by The Leadroom, was held on the weekend of 16-17 September at the Historic Tilbury Riverside Station and Cruise Terminal in Essex. This was the firs

The 2024 staging of the Good Friday spectacular known as Wheels Day will have come and gone by the time this issue hits the newsstands. We’ll be bringing you the lowdown on the show in a future issue but we wanted to take this opportunity to keep you

‘It started like every night,’ says Neil Hill. ‘I was sat looking through eBay and Facebook at the cars for sale.’ That’s how it started: you can already guess how it ended. ‘I spotted this Ford rat rod, and as you do I saved it to my watch list to s

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