1937 Chevy Coupe with Hot Rod Pinup Kelly Lindahl Car Owner: Keith Goettlich – Click any picture for full size As with most car guys, automotive make and style preferences are more often than not generational; Traits passed down through generations just like hair or eye color. For Keith Goettlich, it was a passion for Buick’s, and more specifically, their legendary Torque-bomb Nailhead V-8s that Keith inherited from his father. Keith’s father, like few others in the 60s, steered away from the more popular (and generally cheaper) Bowtie and...

Detroit Autorama Favorites – Chris Voyles Picks MyRideisMe.com’s show sponsor: Auto Meter Gauges Who’s Chris Voyles? He’s the dude with the GIANT camera hustling around the Detroit Autorama so you can enjoy what we saw from your computers and phones. I recruited Chris to help me with photos and get his favorites from his first year at the Detroit Autorama. Here’s what he thought… He’s shy so let him know if he screwed this up. We might be able to shame him into a reply? Also see Chris’ picks for...

There’s an Upstairs? Basement at the 2013 Detroit Autorama See all the pictures from the Basement – Hot Rods and Custom Cars For years now Autorama has been separated into two levels – the main floor and the basement. The main floor is the area that most people used to think of when thinking of the Detroit Autorama. The basement is where the ‘other’ cars go… In the past this ranged from tuners to rat rods. I used to hate going into the basement, and getting past the thumping...

2013 Detroit Autorama – Voyles’ Picks For Ridler Award Words and Pics by Chris Voyles MyRideisMe.com’s show sponsor: Auto Meter Gauges The 2013 Detroit Autorama was a great one indeed with eight cars nominated for the prestigious Ridler Award. These cars where exceptionally nice, but I think it’s safe to say we all said to ourselves, “Hey! Why wasn’t that car nominated?” We’ll Pikesan and I thought the same thing… while he’s still deciding which rides he would have picked, I’m done! Here’s a few of the custom cars I thought were...

2013 Detroit Autorama – Pikesan’s Picks for Best of Show MyRideisMe.com’s show sponsor: Auto Meter Gauges Like last year, I took too many pictures. I couldn’t stop! To do my best to quickly-as-possibly share what I have and what I liked, I’m loading up the MyRideisMe picture gallery. There’s 200 events covered since 2007, so lots to see, something for everyone… including – The Best of the 2013 Detroit Autorama. The rest of the BEST pictures and info are here. This wasn’t a Ridler Contender? (Insert confused look here) 1934...

2013 Detroit Autorama – Ridler Award Contenders MyRideisMe.com’s show sponsor: Auto Meter Gauges If you’re 6’4″ you don’t need a ladder… might as well use the height for some good and give another look at the “Great 8″ cars contending for the coveted Ridler Award. After another day at the show, the winner’s unknown and among friends, there’s no clear favorite. (lots of bias tho!) Ridler Award Contender – 1934 Ford Sedan Gotta show the slick sedan from Arizona some love. It’s an amazing color, even in the brutal...

2013 Detroit Autorama – Ridler Award Contenders It’s Time! Detroit’s here and we’ve got all the “Great 8″ shots up and ready for you to pick a favorite. This year, they let us know a little earlier who the greats were, a rough job since I heard there were upwards of 50 cars in contention. Look for a great post coming soon of, “Shoulda-been’s” or just bad-to-the-bone rides that somehow weren’t selected as Ridler finalists. No use arguing over that now, the Great 8 contenders choices have been made,...

2013 Barrett Jackson Scottsdale Muscle Cars and Mopars Story and photos by Chris Voyles This years Barrett Jackson Scottsdale auction was a awesome one! Last year was a great auction but I think there was a little more excitement this year with some super unique vehicles crossing the block. Who could have predicted the Batmobile would go for 4.3 million?! There were a lot of great vehicles that had the proceeds go to charities and nothing is better than to see the price climbing on those cars with the...

Hot Rods & Customs Long Exposure Photography It’s never supposed to rain in Southern California! But it did and everyone attending the 2013 Grand National Roadster Show made the best of it. When the rain let up, I took full advantage shooting this vibrant 1950 GMC pickup owned by Eric Conner of El Cajon, CA. Ya dig? I couldn’t stop at just one… but I noticed on nearly the last couple pictures I wanted to take that my lens had water drops all over it. Luckily for this pic,...

2012 Norcal Car Show “Year in Review” Words & pictures by: Nick Koljian (About Nick) (click on any picture to see it full size… you really should!) Part I As 2012 passes by in the side mirror, 2013 is jumping up on us like a dog in heat. And with the passing of 2012 we saw some pretty amazing shows. Some big, some small, but all good. For 2013, I’m looking forward to bigger and better shows for Northern California. I’m looking forward to shows I’ve been to year-in...

Custom One Off Wheels at SEMA 2012 (Click to see any picture full size) Click for everything @ 2012 SEMA Show from MyRideisMe Let the debate begin! To me, this was the hottest wheel I saw and if there’s one thing more common then wheels at the SEMA Show, I don’t know what it is! So why is this my pick of SEMA? They’re one of a kind, one off wheels – nobody else at the SEMA Show has these wheels (or ever will) They’re on  on a bad...

Traditional to Wild Custom Paint at SEMA 2012 (Click to see any picture full size) Click for everything @ 2012 SEMA Show from MyRideisMe The SEMA Show’s all about custom. One thing there’s never a shortage of is custom paint. Pictured about is my buddy Keith Charvonia’s 1951 Kaiser. I already posted about it here, The New Sick: 1951 Kaiser Kustom and Speedhunters.com took some pretty amazing pictures here: Drag’n Kaiser. In case you didn’t read either of those, this “fade” paint job was applied by customizing legend Gene Winfield....