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Greetings from Nashville
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Posted August 4 2008 10:12 PM by RCTimB
If you haven't received or bought the November issue of Rod & Custom yet, you should soon. Our coverage of the Goodguys Nashville Nationals is part of the package. This was only the third year for this event, and...
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Filed under: Editorials, Hot Rod Events And Auto Shows
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Support the cause
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Posted July 28 2008 10:08 PM by RCTimB
It's Sunday night and I'm emptying out my wallet after the weekend car show. It’s stuffed to overflowing. Not with money (no kidding), but with a weekend's accumulation of car show leftovers. Business cards of people I...
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Filed under: Editorials, General Custom Rod Talk
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Cool Is How You Use It
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Posted July 24 2008 10:42 PM by RCTimB
“What do you look for when you’re choosing which cars to photograph?”
I get that question a lot and it’s taken me 20 years to think of an answer that is accurate and short. I’m still working on it, but what I say...
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Filed under: Miscellaneous, General Custom Rod Talk
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The World Is Going Flat
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Posted July 9 2008 05:58 PM by RCTimB
Flat. Suede. Primer. Non-gloss. Call it whatever you want, this style in hot rod and custom car paint has been around too long to be considered a fad. And it’s too widespread to be dismissed as a half-baked alternative to...
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Filed under: Rod & Custom Magazine, Auto Paint, 1950s Hot Rods
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"You Might As Well Be A Vegetarian" or "A Fork In The Road" or "Street Is Meat"
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Posted July 7 2008 10:05 PM by RCTimB
I had dinner with an old friend recently at a fancy high-dollar steakhouse in town. I had a ribeye, he had a filet. About 30 minutes after the steaks came, he eaten all the rolls and his baked potato, but still hadn’t...
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Filed under: Miscellaneous, Vintage Hot Rods
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Has the price of fuel affected your hot rodding?
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Posted July 6 2008 04:31 PM by RCTimB
It’s the topic we’ve all been talking about around the shops we visit and at car shows we attend.
The price of gas.
Specifically, how through-the-ceiling gas costs have (or have not) affected our hobby. I’ve been to a...
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Filed under: Miscellaneous, General Custom Rod Talk
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Saturday July 19th 9am to 3pm
Are There Airwaves For Us?
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Posted June 19 2008 03:16 PM by RCTimB
Whatever your personal taste in music might be, it seems there are certain types of music associated with hot rodding. Go to large national hot rod shows and you're likely to hear plenty of golden oldies. Some of the local...
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Filed under: Miscellaneous
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Hot Rod Verse by Scotty Gosson
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Posted June 19 2008 02:59 PM by RCTimB
Routine maneuvers through the downtown summer night Local radio soundtrack for dancing reflections rolling under streetlights Hare and hound sheep and wolf slap and tickle exercises mix it up with rooster challenges issued...
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Filed under: Rod & Custom Magazine, 1960s Hot Rods
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RM Auctions - The Joe MacPherson Collection
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Posted June 13 2008 03:15 PM by ekimball
Early this morning I had the chance to check out the Joe MacPherson Collection up for auction at Joe's Garage. The auction put on by RM Auctions will be taking place Saturday June 14th.
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Filed under: Hot Rod News, General Custom Rod Talk
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Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion Grand Marshal
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Posted May 19 2008 12:40 PM by R&C Kevin
Dick LaHaie was arguably the most humble, yet fiercest competitor around. Selected No. 31 on the NHRA's all-time Top 50 drivers list, it's no surprise the Lansing, Mich. racer/owner/crew chief was named Grand Marshal of...
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Filed under: Hot Rod News, Hot Rod Drag Races
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Man Slowly Crushes Two Firebirds in the Name of Art
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Posted May 16 2008 11:06 AM by ekimball
Certain works of Art have always irked me, from the paint splattering of Jackson Pollock, the asinine performance art of Yoko Ono, all the way back to Marcel Duchamp's Dada "Fountain." (See picture of signed urinal) It...
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Filed under: Editorials, General Custom Rod Talk
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Hot Rod Verse by Scotty Gosson
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Posted April 30 2008 06:19 PM by RCTimB
Just when we ran out of asphalt The first raindrops fell They hit the ground like airstrike invaders and made the dust dance We smiled at the baby Dresden and crunched through the gravel When I downshifted for Spaghetti...
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Filed under: Rod & Custom Magazine
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Finding His Old Ride After 37 Years
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Posted April 30 2008 06:14 PM by RCTimB
If there's anything better than building and driving a hot rod or custom car, it's being reunited with a long-lost favorite. In the "Yesterday's Young Guns" department in the November 2007 issue of R&C, we told...
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Filed under: Rod & Custom Magazine
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Tennessee Makes it Easier to Register Street Rods
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Posted April 21 2008 02:45 PM by R&C Kevin
A version of SEMA model legislation to create a vehicle registration
and titling classification for custom vehicles (including kit cars and
replicas) was approved by the Tennessee State Legislature and signed
into law by...
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Filed under: Hot Rod News
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