During the month of June, car folks from across the country pack the Minnesota State Fairgrounds for the Minnesota Street Rod Association's legendary "Back to the Fifties" weekend. It's an event like no other. And this year, the 48th annual, a good share of those folks (in other words just about anybody who can carry …
It was May of 1973. My dad and I were in Newport News Virginia visiting my sister and her family. And.... one of the "tourist trap" stops we made just happened to put us right next door to what I presume was the host hotel for the Tidewater Street Rod Association's Colonial Williamsburg Rod Run. …
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Hitting the road before dawn, I skated along an icy early April highway and slogged my way through a thick fog all the while thinking, "This better be worth it…!" I needn't have worried. The destination was the 64th Annual Gopher State Timing Association's long-delayed spring fling and it seemed there were more than a …
Welcome to Terry's Garage! Although it no longer exists online, the previously hosted version of Terrysgarage.com had a photo page that displayed some of my past four-wheeled frustrations. I figured that was a good way to explain how my system got soaked with 40-weight... sort of like the garage floors those cars were parked on …
It occurred to me, having been closely attached to my multi-year Chevy II rebuild project for a while, that every now and then we should take a different direction just to clear our minds and shift our focus. This was one of those times. As it hearkened to the days when two spoked wheels and …
I was tired of bumping into the fenders and hood in my basement storage room. And the grille, bumper, valence panel and other assorted front end pieces were on the verge of getting lost in the corners of the garage. They had to move. Now that the heavy work is done up front I figured …
Heading into the second leg of our September hotrodding road trip, the clock was re-wound a bit as we found ourselves at Wisconsin's Rock Falls Raceway. Now, I've heard that there are those who believe time travel is, literally, possible. Maybe that's based on deep theory and high-brow calculation that's light-years above my pay grade. …
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Looking back, I'd say this was one of the best adventures on asphalt that I've had in a long time: three buddies and me, smack-dab in the middle of Hot Rod Magazine's 2021 Drag Week. Our schedule would take us to Indy's Lucas Oil Raceway on September 15 followed by a Thursday stop at Byron …
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