A Great Gallery for Classic Car and Truck Photos

OldRide.com has provided a browseable gallery of photos for classic cars, trucks and hot rods.  Many of the great photos are dating all the way back to the early 1900s and contain some rare, never seen or long forgotten photos.

Rusty Rat Rods and Hot Rods
photo courtesty of OldRide.com

Car Photos on OldRide.com features everything from rat rods and hot rods to classic trucks, Mopars, Mustangs, muscle cars, junkyards and more. Some of these pictures will leave you reminiscing about the days of old and wishing we could go back to the day when gasoline was about $0.20/gallon. 

Viewing Car Photos on OldRide.com is a great time waster for me. If you want to see some great classic vehicles you can visit the variety of albums and view pictures of classic ads, brochures or junkyard cars.

Great Holiday Gifts for Hot Rod Enthusiasts

This year I would like to suggest some great gifts to buy that are useful and significantly more fun than some of the typical holiday gifts auto enthusiasts are given.

Here is a list of gifts that you can use to spice up the holiday season of your Hot Rod enthusiast.

A Hot Rod Book - $24
For Sale on Amazon.com

In its sixty-plus years of existence, Hot Rod magazine has featured hundreds of cars on its cover. To those in the muscle car, street machine, and hot rodding hobby, having their car selected for the cover is the ultimate coup, a near unsurpassable bragging right. Often, the cover car is a landmark vehicle that sets new standards for years to come. Hot Rod Magazine All the Covers showcases each cover in full color, along with images of the cover car from select issues.

Hot Rod T-Shirt or Sweatshirt - $15-$28
For Sale on OldRide.com

 

You are sure to be pleased with this custom graphic t-shirt, including the OldRide.com logo on the front with a larger logo and Rat Rod on the back. This shirt is made comfortable, using 100% cotton and comes pre-shrunk. A perfect gift for any classic car enthusiast! 

Genuine Hotrod Hardware® Tool Box Fridges - $330
For Sale on SummitRacing.com

Nothing looks worse than a stark-white refrigerator in a car guy's garage! The Tool Box Fridges are the perfect accessories for any car guy's place. They're designed to look just like a toolbox, so they fit perfectly with your garage or shop's decor. From their top door lock and heavy-duty locking casters to their rugged metal non-operational drawer pulls, the Tool Box Fridges look like the real thing! They feature a lighted interior, a Dispense-A-Can can stacker, spill-proof shelves, and the capacity to hold all of the necessities to finish the job (including 2 liter and 1/2 gallon bottles)! They measure 37 in. tall by 19 in. wide by 23 in. deep and weigh 62 lbs.

Driving Experience $700 - $3,200

For Sale at the Skip Barber Racing School

If your budget is no object, then the Skip Barber Racing or Driving School makes a great gift for someone special in your life.  You can even buy yourself the gift you’ve always wanted.   Purchase before the end of November and receive 20% off!

Happy Shopping and Merry Christmas!

Turn your Hot Rod into a BBQ Grille

"It's not unusual for chrome-plated thoughts to race through Willie Elder's mind when he browses Craigslist or eBay for odds-and-ends parts. Restoring vintage cars and trucks is his hobby.

So when he found the front end of a 1939 Dodge pickup for sale online, Elder naturally wanted it. He haggled the price down, as well as delivery — the seller was from Akron — and when the old Dodge rolled into his driveway in Greeley, Elder's mind's eye quite literally blazed.

“It was almost instant — I'm going to make a barbecue grill,” he recalls.

About a year of work later, the immense grill of the Dodge, a one-time asphalt truck coated in rust and tar, gleams along with the hood, headlights and fenders in its second life as, well, a high-horsepower grill.

“This is the beast,” Elder says as he pushes a remote-control button.

Guurrrrruuhummm goes the hood of the old Dodge, rising 3 feet via a motorized pulley and displaying the grill's impressive guts. They look remarkably like a 1930s-era V-8 engine."

Read the full story here - Car guru's skills turn into high-horsepower grill | Greeley Tribune

Hot Rods

To me, hot rods are a vehicle of wonder and amazement. Sure, you can take a car and restore it to it's original image but a true piece of work that really tantalizes the eyes is a fine crafted Hot Rod. A Hot Rod came to be known in the 1930s or 1940s as the name of a car that had been "hopped up" by modifying the engine in various ways to achieve higher performance. A typical Hot Rod consists of vehicles from the early 20's through 60's especially pre World War II vehicles and their parts.

There are those who criticize and believe the practice of modifying rare vehicles and their parts should be abolished and consider Hot Rodding a derogatory term, while others who enjoy this type of restoration keep the hobby alive.

To view more pictures of Hot Rods or those vehicles that could become Hot Rod Projects visit OldRide.com and view their Rusty Rides section.

1938 Lincoln Zephyr

The following websites are a staple in Hot Rod Culture:

• Get the know-how to customize your Hot Rod for other HotRodders at Hotrodders.com
• The true genius when it comes to American Hot Rods - Boyd Coddington
• And if you really want to get into the nitty gritty, join the NHRA