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Fueled Rides Retro Rumblings Tuesday Time Capsule
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Retro Rumblings – Goodguys First Street Rod of the Year

January 20, 2021

The Goodguys Top 12 awards program came from singular, humble beginnings. During the first three years of national events for the Goodguys Rod & Custom Association, the biggies in terms of awards were basically confined to the West Coast Nationals in Pleasanton. The most coveted

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Monochromatic Musings – Big Meats and Bright Colors

November 26, 2020

In the ’80s and early-’90s, chrome was not necessarily the preferred trim and bumper finish in the world of high-performance machines. Bumpers and trim went from shine to sheen. If you were at Goodguys Indy, or other events like the Street Machine Nationals in Springfield or

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Retro Rumblings – Miles for Smiles

October 12, 2020

In the fall of 2009, Dave Schaub embarked on hot rodding’s ultimate road trip. Driving his ’32 Ford roadster, a black Brizio-prepared “reacher,” Schaub traversed all 49 continental United States in just eight days. Billed as “49 in 9,” Schaub finished the 9,856-mile journey a

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Retro Rumblings – Fat Attack!

September 24, 2020

Above - Cole Cutler’s flamed, Boss 429-powered  ’34 coupe squares off against Fat Jack Robinson’s ’46 Ford coupe at Fremont’s Ballads Raceway. When the 1980s dawned, street rodding was moving toward a renaissance that would have been unthinkable just a few short years prior. Prewar resto

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Retro Rumblings – The Ohio Look

August 27, 2020

Credit Barry Lobeck as the father of hot rodding’s Ohio Look. What is the Ohio Look? Boiled down to its essentials, it’s an age-old recipe which includes an aggressive rake, bigs and littles, solid body colors, and a healthy motor. Sounds easy, right? Easy or not,

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How Bakersfield Saved Vintage Drag Racing

July 2, 2020

Promoting any kind of drag races in the 1980s and ’90s without names like Big Daddy, the Snake, Raymond Beadle, Shirley, and John Force was an exercise in futility. Undeterred, Goodguys founder Gary Meadors battled that dilemma for a half decade doing vintage drags, often

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Retro Rumblings – Rock Royalty

May 25, 2020

There are rock stars, and then there is rock & roll royalty. Hot rodding is lucky in that the royals chose us. They speak our language. This story started in 1972 when a long-haired British guitar virtuoso named Jeff Beck walked into Andy Brizio’s Shop on

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Retro Ramblings – “Loyalty”

April 22, 2020

One of the first things I noticed when I came to work for Goodguys in the fall of 1990 is how loyal everyone was to each other and what a tight-knit fraternity hot rodding was. Goodguy Gary was very close friends with guys like Bill

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