Innehållsförteckning för February 2025 från Custom Car

The NSRA AGM, held towards the end of November, saw no changes to the management team for the coming year, with all existing 11 committee members standing for a further term. The event dates for what promises to be an exciting 2025 for the NSRA were confirmed to those in attendance. The Southern Swap Meet takes place at North Weald on Sunday 2 March, a must-do day out even if it’s only to catch up with friends you haven’t seen over the winter months. Santa Pod is the venue for the Nostalgia Nationals on 2-4 May, the first of the club’s period drag racing meets. Then, 26 May through to 1 June sees the inaugural week-long Fun Run, this year based at St Ives Bay, Cornwall. It’s back to the…

Colin Parkinson is one of those hot rodders who forever strives to keep ahead of the game. “I’m always thinking of the next project, or two,” he confided. “I’d not finished the rebuild of Porky, my ’47 Ford (see September ’19 issue), when my next build popped into my head. It would be my dream hot rod, a Boydster 1, 2, or 3 roadster.” To that end, Colin tracked down the Australian company that had started producing replica Boydster 1 and 2 bodies before Boyd Coddington’s untimely passing. The company confirmed bodies were still available and gave Colin a price. Tim Hammond gave him a ballpark figure for fabricating a rolling chassis and he had an estimate of the budget needed to build a Boydster – but that was as…

The first hovercraft crossed the Channel. Cindy Crawford was born. John Lennon said “we’re more popular than Jesus.” The first cards were dealt at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas. Apparently England won the World Cup. And in the world of interesting cars, CM Frost American Autoparts opened for business. The year was 1966. Next year, CM Frost will celebrate its sixtieth birthday – and it’s going stronger than ever. Three years later, Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. The legendary Woodstock Festival took place. Richard Nixon became president. The first Boeing 747 took to the skies, followed a month later by the first Concorde. Latest John Lennon news was that he married Yoko. The first version of what would become the internet began operation. And back in the world of…

Hot Head Speed ​Shop… That’s what Louis calls his garage at home, where he has built a number of hot rods. Today, the green Deuce shares space with a ’34 Ford coupe which he purchased as a restored antique during the ’80s. It was all stock, with the exception of a 239ci 59A/B V8 flathead mated to a ’38 Ford gearbox. He remembers: “This coupe spoke to me, and I knew exactly what I wanted to do to it – it told me it wanted to be a hot rod. I could see a vision like a diamond in the rough of what my plan would be. Over the next few months, I tore into it to bring up the shine I knew was there.” He went to work with…

JANUARY 2025 19 Huddersfield Auto/Retro Jumble. Brook Street, Huddersfield. www.phoenixfairs.jimdo.com 19 Krispy Kreme Cruise. Krispy Kreme, Shannon Corner, New Malden, Surrey. Facebook: Krispy Kreme Cruise Surrey 21 VW Air-Cooled Night. Ace Café, London. www.acecafe.com 26 ‘Normous Newark Autojumble Newark Showground, Newark, Notts. www.newarkautojumble.co.uk 30 All American Cruise In. Ace Café, London. www.acecafe.com FEBRUARY 2025 5 Hot Rod Night. Ace Café, London. www.acecafe.com 16 Krispy Kreme Cruise. Krispy Kreme, Shannon Corner, New Malden, Surrey. Facebook: Krispy Kreme Cruise Surrey 16 ‘Normous Newark Autojumble Newark Showground, Newark, Notts. www.newarkautojumble.co.uk 18 VW Air-Cooled Night. Ace Café, London. www.acecafe.com 21-23 Race Retro. Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire. www.raceretro.com 22 All American Cruise In. Ace Café, London. www.acecafe.com 23 Huddersfield Auto/Retro Jumble. Brook Street, Huddersfield. www.phoenixfairs.jimdo.com MARCH 2025 2 NSRA Southern Swap Meet North Weald Airfield, Essex…

On parade The ICENI C.A.R. Club Easter Bonnet Parade takes place on Monday 21 April from 11am onwards. It all happens at the Banham Barrel in Banham, Norwich NR16 2HE, an independent music venue in the heart of Norfolk. Plenty of parking is available, live music will be provided courtesy of J.S. & The Lockerbillies and hot and cold food is available from the Barrel, the fish and chip shop and the local butchers. Facebook: ICENI C.A.R. Club Rutland classics Rutland Showground will host its fourth Classic Wheels event on Sunday 18 May. The day is open to all classics, motorbikes, hot rods and sports cars, and last year more than 1000 vehicles attended. Supporting the exhibits will be autojumble stands, food and craft stalls, children’s entertainment and live music.…

Designed by Chip Foose and built by Boyd Coddington, Boydster 1 is a fenderless ’32 Ford highboy. The ali bodied Boydster 1 first appeared at the 1996 Grand National Roadster Show and took the ultimate accolade of the title America’s Most Beautiful Roadster. Boyd subsequently introduced replica fibreglass bodies. Once again, designed by Chip Foose and built by Boyd and his team, the Boydster 2 pictured here is a full-fendered version of its predecessor. Originally painted yellow, the car then turned red and ultimately black after being reworked by Foose. In that final guise and owned by Chuck Svatos it too won the title of America’s Most Beautiful Roadster in the year 2000. Four years later, Boyd built Boydster 3, a full-fendered ’33 Ford roadster that featured on his American…

It’s often the case that exposure to hot rodding spawns yet more hot rodding, and that is certainly the case with this Ford 100E. In the June ’21 issue, we visited County Durham and stumbled across a triad of hot-rodded British tin put together in the same workshop. The people behind the cars were brothers Andrew and Christopher Waller and their good friend Darren Ferry. Such hot rodding activity can only be of influence to anyone who comes into contact with it, such as Andrew’s son Matthew. Andrew has owned his ’52 Anglia since 1995 so it was a natural progression for Matthew to get his hands on this ’61 Ford 100E Popular at an early age. That happened in June ’19 when he was just 15 years old and…

It was some 20 years ago that, out of the blue, Dave Rothwell sent me a picture of a car he was working on. This car. Typical of Dave, he didn’t follow it up with anything more, just left that one image hanging. I knew straight away it was going to be something special, and replied with words to that effect. I never forgot that one image, and every year I’d hope to bump into the little Standard somewhere. It never happened, though, until at the Hot Rod Drags in 2023. We were just heading back to the tents when a couple of mates ahead of me stopped to look at a car on a trailer. Even from afar, I knew instantly what the car was and I looked around…

It all started with a bunch of kids testing their cars on Southern California’s dry lakes before WWII. Automotive historians have since agreed that the region was the birthplace of hot rodding, thanks in part to its mild weather. It certainly helped this rowdy crowd when driving their roadsters – the hot rodder’s favourite to this day. As GIs returned home from the war, the hot rod scene exploded in and around Los Angeles. Large cities remained spaced, with rural communities sprinkling the region. Orange County – OC for short – comes to mind. Its name stems from its numerous orange groves, though very few can be found nowadays. The area welcomed several hot rod clubs, with some of them combining forces to promote one of history’s first organised drag…

Event: Flame and Thunder Show Date: 26-27 October Venue: Santa Pod So when it came to the Flame and Thunder Show, which traditionally brings down the curtain on the season’s drag racing… well, it rained. Only on and off, though, and not enough to put a dampener on the action – which went far beyond the strip itself. Drifting, stunt shows, monster trucks, traction engines, fireworks, live music, more fireworks, night runs, night runs with fireworks – it’s one for the fans, one for the family and one for turning the family into fans. A huge turnout saw a massive variety of cars hitting the strip, from RWYB-ers to a mixed bag of nostalgia motors and current race cars – with a few PBs cropping up on the timing slips…