Brian Larson’s Speedstar coupe was featured this at SEMA in the Meguiar’s booth.

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Meet “The Seven Year Itch”. This 1967 Chevrolet “Hot Wheels” style is a completely frame off restored truck and has so many tasteful and custom attributes it hurts just thinking about them. Seven Year Itch = a seven year project. It would take a complete evening to simply take all of this truck in and then the rest of the month to truly understand it’s beauty and craftsmanship. This truck was a seven year project that a high end automobile collector invested to make it where it is today. How many times have you heard – “Over $100,000 invested in this collector car” knowing that it was half that amount? This is not the case here.

This truck was built mostly for show knowing it would take the odd occasional drive. This truck can be described as a trailer queen. It was built to be perfect in appearance and to be trailered to shows – not driven to them. The most expensive part of this truck is everything. Everything is as nice as the rest. The truck was completed about 2 years ago and every single show it entered, it took all of the trophies in its class, including but not limited to “PEOPLE’S CHOICE” and “BEST PAINT AND BODY” at the famous Draggins Rod and Custom Car Show. I was at this show and it was the talk of the show. I believe it won around 6 awards at one show in its debut. This is a car show that sees $500,000 Roadsters. In its first showing, this truck was invited to be the spotlight in the Hot Rods & Classics Magazine.

Body Mods and Features

- Top chopped 4”
- Rolled Drip Rails
- Smoothed Door Handles & Tailgate
- Frenched Antenna & Stake Pocket
- Smooth Firewall
- Flush Front and Rear Glass
- One Piece Side Glass
- Hidden Fuel Filler (Behind Back-up Light)
- Custom Side Exhaust exits – electric module turns exhaust to straight header or to exit in front of the rear tires at the flick of a switch
- Full air ride technologies with controls on Key FOB as well as inside truck

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By Bill McGuire

Photography by Wes AlIison

Good news, HOT ROD readers. You just thought you were crazy. In truth, you’re only mildly colorful. Oh sure, you’ve often reflected on how your taste in transportation trends toward the outlandish, if not the extreme. And given all those long hours you’ve spent in the garage building such machines, friends and family have mentioned (frequently) how your behavior might be described as, well, obsessive. However, when it comes to over-the-top road vehicles and the mentally questionable commitment required to construct them, you’d have a hard time matching Joe Skonecki. Just look at what he built. Compared with him, you can consider yourself almost normal. This dude is totally nuts, and we mean that in the best possible way. We come in praise of this form of insanity.

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The Bugatti Renaissance design project is designer John Mark Vicente’s vision for the supercar that will replace the (al)mighty Bugatti Veyron. Since the concept has really large shoes to fill, it works hard to carry the virtues of the Veyron along. There isn’t a radical change in the looks department, and we think there won’t be one in the performance either, what it does appear to change is by way of a few cosmetic changes, and perhaps a bit of green-ness. An interesting design exercise, but I wonder if Bugatti would consider a direct successor to the Veyron. More images after the jump.

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By Tim Bernsau

Photography by Kevin Lee

Spectators at the ’09 Grand National Roadster Show (GNRS) were the first to see Jim Benitez’s Model A roadster pickup in finished form. Jim’s newest and greatest creation, nicknamed Faster Pussycat, made its first formal appearance in Pomona, California, last winter-and not just in the show, but among the finalists for the prestigious America’s Most Beautiful Roadster award. This was not, however, the RPU’s first trip to the GNRS. The car was there the year before in unfinished bare metal, and the year before that as a finished frame-both times in the display booth for the Jalopy Shoppe.

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From the Ralph Lauren collection on display at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Photo taken in 2005. Straight Sexy!

Bugatti is one of the most celebrated marques of automobiles and one of the most exclusive French car producers of all time. The company is legendary for producing some of the best sports cars in the world. The original Bugatti failed with the advent of World War II, but the name has been resurrected twice, most recently under the Volkswagen group.

Bugatti’s cars were as much works of art as they were mechanical creations, with hand-turned finishes on the engine blocks, lightening holes in every conceivable location, and safety wires threaded through almost every fastener in intricately laced patterns. He regarded his arch competitor, Bentley, as “the world’s fastest trucks” for turning their attentions more towards durability. According to Bugatti, weight was the enemy. Bugatti’s disdain for his customers is as legendary as his devotion to his creations; in one apocryphal incident, upon greeting an unhappy customer returning to the factory with “What, you again?”, he replied to the subsequent tale of automotive mechanical woe with “Well, see that it does not happen again!” and strode away.

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One Bad Bowtie! – A 1967 Chevy Camaro RS

This bad boy sports a 454 Cu In, Automatic Transmission, aluminum performer RPM intake, Holley dual feed carb, MSD ignition, Big Tube headers, aluminum radiator, and engine dress-up kit complete the engine compartment.

The bumble bee exterior is finished in bright yellow accented by a bold contrasting stripe package, Cowl Induction hood and rear spoiler

A set of reversed American Racing polished torque thrust mags keeps this baby to the road.

The interior sports bucket seats, console, B&M ratchet shifter, large faced Auto Gauge Tach with shift light, and a Pioneer AM/FM/CD player.

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Nothing says custom more than this 1950 Mercury Lead Sled.

This classy machine was built on tubular frame. It sports a ’74 Camaro Front End, ’72 Monte Carlo Rear End, Tilted Post T-Bird Interior, Air Ride Technology Suspension.

This Merc will lay all the way on the ground too!

Other features include a ’54 Chevrolet Bumperette with parking lights, AM/FM Radio, Air Conditioning, Power Steering, Power Brakes, Door Poppers, Cadillac Rear Tail lights, Radial White Walls, 350 Turbo Transmission, and M502 Big Block Motor to get this monster around.

Nothing like cruisin’ in style!

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Steve Darnell’s ’28 Dodge Bros. sedan is quite an attention getter. While rat rods are nothing new, Steve’s 693-rwhp, Cummins turbodiesel-powered rat rod is indeed something different. All that power isn’t for show, either, as the 3,800-pound rat has run 11.69 at 118 mph in the quarter, limited by gearing (out of rpm by 800 feet) and traction (2.24 60-foot). Another shocker is that this project went from a bunch of steel and a rusted shell to a running rod in just three and a half months, although Steve estimates a good 1,000 hours of labor were put in during that time.In addition to the diesel, Steve’s rod also dares to be different with an agricultural theme. The front axle was lifted from a coal mine truck, and John Deere green is seen throughout the vehicle. What’s more, Steve drives the thing everywhere-in fact, the six-cylinder diesel has been a great asset in fuel mileage, as the Dodge has achieved an incredible 25 mpg on freeway jaunts. What’s next? Well, the ‘cage is SCTA-legal for Bonneville. As soon as Steve finds another gear, and with the addition of a transbrake and some taller slicks, 10-second passes should be no problem. Oh, and that’s without the extra 300 to 500 hp available from the progressive NX nitrous system. Whether it’s at his home track in Billings, Montana, or cruising the Strip in Las Vegas, this one-of-a-kind rod always draws a crowd.

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