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Home > Articles > Ragazine Rack > Ed Newton's Muscle Rods Revisited
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| Radical Rides built by RoboRodders of the Future |
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| Part 1 ~ |
| Back in the winter of 1990/1991, the Premier Issue of Custom Rodder magazine featured an article about the possibility of creating and building what may be termed "essence highboys". The original 4-page article called MuscleRods was "wrapped" around a two-page photo presentation of Charlie Smith’s "Vettester". This was the initial inspiration for the idea of using other "worthy vehicles" to create more radical scratch-built rod concepts. The formula? Take any desirable old car, preferably one that "had respect" to begin with, and reconfigure it into a fenderless roadster in a similar fashion to the classically customized (or repopped) Deuces of today. As the accompanying copy and captions of the original article were a bit long, the companion text has been rewritten to eliminate all but the primary points (which, unbelievably, are still as innovative today as when they were first penned over a decade ago). So, here’s Part One (of 3) concerning some future thought about what we’d all like to be able to do in our million-dollar garages of the 21st century. |
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| Considering the recent popularity factor of "retro-designing", if it ever becomes a fad to reconfigure popular automotive styles into early hot rod forms, fair game for such a transformation would be the coveted musclecars of the sixties and early seventies. What better way to capture the flair and flavor of high performance fun than to build a personal "Prowler" with the ponycar pizzazz of the past. As the above Camaro and the Mustang concepts below hope to illustrate, scratch-built hot rods appear to have an unlimited future. |
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