the Raven over a nine-year stretch, largely from scratch. The Chelmsford, Massachusetts, chicken coop was the same, special place wherein Arthur and his brother operated the Bentas Bros. Co., makers ...

The 1950s turned American cars into rolling monuments, stretching sheet metal, horsepower, and chrome to extravagant new extremes. Size and power became status symbols, and designers treated every ...

Nothing reflects the qualities of America quite as well as the Hot rod: resourcefulness, innovation, diversity, freedom, and maybe even a bit of rebelliousness. Although a commonly used term today, it ...

Custom cars are always head turners, and depending on who made them and why, they can even turn in very valuable possessions. In this respect, you can't get anything better than a Chevrolet Bel Air ...

Barris Kustom Industries, the birthplace of some of the most famous modified cars of the 20th century, looks set to close. Self-proclaimed “king of the customizers”, George Barris moved his business ...

The 1950s gave us some of the most recognizable silhouettes in automotive history, yet a surprising number of those cars slipped quietly into obscurity while the same handful of icons soaked up the ...

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 6 (UPI) --The man who built the famous Batmobile for the 1960s TV show Batman and many other famous cars died Thursday. George Barris, considered "kustom car king" and one-man car ...