Art Martin, 54, builds and collects lowriders. Martin’s 1947 Chevy Fleetmaster is painted kandy brandywine with a little Corvette red thrown in. There’s also a ’47 Cadillac in his garage, black cherry ...
Fifty years ago, Ervin Wagner operated a two-bay service station on Highway 632 in the town of Phelps, Kentucky, maybe 3 miles from the West Virginia border. After fixing customers' cars all day, he ...
The Chevrolet 3100 is a constant presence in the news, despite the fact it hasn't been made new for close to seven decades now. The half-ton representative of a line of pickup trucks Chevy used to ...
If you look at the present-day new pickup truck market in the U.S., it becomes immediately clear that all the companies that were once known as the Detroit Big Three are are taking the lion's share: ...
The last '47-54 Chevy pickup to roll out of RB's shop was the High Tech Hauler '48 Chevy which was won by a lucky Primedia reader. This time, Ray wanted to build a keeper. He was leaning toward a ...
One of every motorist’s top nightmares is their brakes failing at any given moment, and if it’s a big, heavy old vintage car, it probably raises pulses even higher. This nightmare came to life this ...
It all started with model cars. As a young boy, Henry Llamas of National City enjoyed building model car kits of his favorite classic rides. Since he wasn't old enough to drive yet, it was the closest ...
Station wagons have ferried passengers to railroad stations, carried campers and worked for tradesmen. In 1948, one covered the length of Africa. Henry Donner was a professor of astronomy and geology ...
Do you like souped up classic cars, but want them to be an EV? Kindred Motorworks has just introduced an EV conversion of a vintage 1947 to 1953 Chevrolet 3100 pickup truck and it’s a beauty. It’s ...
Classic car ownership has its perks but like any car, things can go sideways quickly if a major component fails. For Alexis Pritchard, the brakes in her and her grandfather’s 1947 Chevrolet Suburban ...
The 1947 Chevrolet Rat Rod you see here looks as if the builder fused together an Ariel Atom and old rust-bucket. While that isn’t the exact DNA of this machine, it is a Frankenstein build with parts ...
Mechanical gremlins are bound to pop up with classic cars. Ideally not while traveling at speed on a busy Southern California road that's under construction. Stream Los Angeles News for free, 24/7, ...