Innholdsfortegnelse for April 2025 i Custom Car

Time for T The ever-industrious Craig Dixon at Altered Tee’s Apparel has been at it again. First up is the range of clothing designed specifically for this year’s staging of Hot Rods and Hills. The T-shirts are priced at £20 each plus £3.50 p&p and are available in an impressive 16 different colours, as depicted on the swatch in these images. Even more impressive is the range of 24 different colours his hoodies are available in, this time priced at £35 each plus £5 p&p. Both garments have a small front breast print and a full-size back print of the event artwork. A package deal is offered for one shirt and one hoodie for £50 plus £5 p&p, with both being available in all the popular sizes. Next is a range…

Ford roadsters of 1932 vintage have been snagged by hot rodders since way before the term ‘hot rod’ was even coined. The model’s good looks and V8 power plant made it an instant success with rodders – with the result that countless companies have been manufacturing steel and ‘glass replicas for well over half a century. Visit any rod show today and you’ll see plenty of Deuce roadsters roaming around, so much so that we forget how few Ford originally produced – about 15,000, compared to a staggering half a million 1928-31 Model A roadsters. Needless to say, building a fresh project car using a genuine Deuce can be extremely challenging, let alone a money pit. But there is hope – as will attest Eric Justus, the owner of the…

“A lot of it is built out of scrap, if I’m honest,” says Mick Day with a smile, in his lilting, West Country way. But let me make it clear from the outset that the car he has created is anything but scrap. It’s a symbol of individuality and a belief in personal freedom, if you’ll excuse the blatant plagiarising of Sailor Ripley’s ode to his snakeskin jacket from the cult 1990 movie Wild at Heart. What started life as a regular 1952 Devon pick-up is just that. Individual. With the exception of the Weld wheels, and a few spurious items, you won’t find much that came off any shelf in this build, unless the shelf in question is in Mick’s garage. He’s just not that kind of guy. “I’m…

It’s been a while. The last time Mick Micetich had a car featured in CC was way back in September 1996. That was his mild custom ’59 Chevrolet Impala convertible, a car he very much regrets selling – not least because it was subsequently returned to standard and turned into a static garage queen. In the years, indeed decades that have followed, he’s been a familiar sight at English cruises with his chopped black ’50 Merc – but there have been other classics, customs and rods too, all of which betray his love for ’50s and ’60s cruise culture. Most of these cars have been imported from the States (Mick spends six months of the year there) but his latest acquisition had been hiding for the best part of a…

Ian Burton has been into hot rods pretty much forever, with a number of his builds being the subjects of magazine features. Probably the most notable pair are the ’34 Ford coupe we featured in 2003 in its silver guise and the ’33 Ford sedan, also silver, that graced our cover in December ’09. Ian had the sedan for 17 years before selling it to a guy in California; it now lives in New York and is still doing very well on the show scene. Ian then bought a patinated ’50 Chevy truck running an LS motor to fill the void in his life and the space in his garage. “I had fun smoothing it out, including the interior, and adding air-con,” Ian explained. “I missed the shiny stuff though…

Event: No Prep Racing test day Date: 16 February 2025 Venue: Manston Raceway Park This came in the form of promotional filming by Backfire Media, with Backfire Brad making the most of things and having fun running his NASCAR Dodge at the same time. Check out the videos of the day on social media. The first challenge of the weekend was to clear enough of the track to let the testing take place. Despite the perishing cold, this was achieved on Saturday thanks to a hard-working band of volunteers who cleared a weeded-over section of taxiway. The transformation was remarkable, resulting in a clearly defined, vegetation-free and, most of all, safe eighth-mile track with an ample shutdown area. The remaining overgrown stretch will be sorted out and become the pit…