By Jim Aust
Photography by Kevin Lee

As with so many hot rodders, the seed was planted very early for Lynn Bird. While his earliest memories would be of his uncle’s fixed up cars when he was very young, Lynn would forever be a builder after he was introduced to scale model car kits in the Fifties [...]

John Swanson’s Traditional A/V-8 Is A Lifelong Dream
Many a rodder has a story about how long it took to build their dream ride. So it should come as no surprise when John Swanson of Huntington Beach, California, gobbled up 12 years to build his A/V-8. This 1929 Ford highboy roadster resting on Deuce ‘rails is [...]

Some of you may have already seen this Flatty-motored A roadster starring on Hot Rod TV, so when we met its owner Jordan Graham at the West Coast Kustoms show in Santa Maria, we figured the story behind its build was worth sharing. After all, there aren’t many teenagers who get their own TV show, [...]