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When you don’t know, you don’t know. That’s how I went into my first SEMA experience in 2021. I had heard so much about this show, the...

THE GRAND SPECIAL When customizers have a theme, I always enjoy seeing how they creatively carry that theme throughout the car. This...

RESTOMOD WAGON My tastes lean toward pro-touring style restomods. So, when I find a car that kinda has that look, I take notice. During a...

VETTE-TROPOLITAN When I walked up to this 1960 Nash Metropolitan, I immediately noticed the custom badge on the lower, right fender,...

DUDE, IT'S A STUDE!!! Roger Linderman of Economy, PA likes the unusual, non-cookie cutter cars. So, when he had the opportunity to pick...

THE FULL MONTE Brent Maletic is a Car Show Life Customer. I’ve had the pleasure of doing show boards for both of his rides. One was for...

THE KING COYOTE One of the Great 8 contenders at this year’s Detroit Autorama also made the trip to Cleveland for the Piston Powered...

THE HOLY GRAIL When I see cars that you don’t see at every car show it always piques my interest. I’m so glad that I had the chance to...

THIS FORD'S ALL CHEVY I met Robert Helsley of New Kensington, PA at the Frazer Township Cruise-in where he was driving a 48 Ford Coupe...

EVIL DUKE I’ve seen this vertical two-tone Dodge Charger a few times since I moved back to the Pittsburgh Area. At a Pittsburgh Cars &...

MACH-WHAAA? If you know me, you know I love a good restomod. This car, however, is the opposite, a retro-mod. It’s a 2012 Mustang done...

WHAT IS THAT? I unintentionally took a week off from posting #rideoftheweek because I was on the road at two consecutive all-Camaro...

IT IS FROM FRANCE On the Saturday Night Live sketch, The Coneheads, Beldar, Prymaat & Connie would explain their strange alien behavior...

A TRUE PHANTOM In the collector car world a phantom is a car that the factory could have built but never did. Such is the case with Stew...

SEA-BURBAN When I saw this creation being towed into the basement of Huntington Place for Autorama Extreme, I knew right away this had to...

THE CREEPY TIKI Autorama Extreme is the old school hot rod show that takes place in the basement of Huntington Place, the site of Detroit...

AN ADVENTURE EVERYTIME YOU GET IN IT Don Deveer is a Navy Veteran who bought this car while he was stationed in Seattle in 1984. He...

A CORVETTE IN DISGUISE This is not your typical shoebox Chevy. This particular 1957 210 is a rare hard top in the mid-level trim of...

WARRANTY VOIDED BY DAVE KINDIG Elaine Smolnik of Brookfield, OH is proud of her son. When Stevie began working at a dealership in the...

CAUTION: WET PAINT I spotted Mark Harlow's 1981 Jeep CJ5 on display outside the Las Vegas Convention Center at SEMA 2022. Original CJs...