Event Coverage: Pete And Jake’s Open House and Car Show
This past Saturday my father and I got up bright and early and made the little over two hour drive up to Pete and Jake’s Open House and Car Show in Peculiar, Missouri in his 1956 Mercury. This was actually the first year that we have taken one of our cars to this even. In […]
Car Feature: Goodguy’s America’s Most Beautiful Street Rod
Retired engineer and lifelong car enthusiast Al Nagele of Wilmette, Illinois had always envisioned a street rod roadster. Not a traditional deuce roadster – he wanted something modern with a European sports car panache. Something that blended the Ford’s iconic looks with American performance and handling. When he finally found the time to get busy […]
Car Feature: Goodguys Street Rod d’Elegance Randy Marston’s 1935 Ford Coupe
When Canadian hot rod enthusiast Randy Marston set out reconstruct his 48,000 original-mile 1935 Ford coupe, he had one person in mind to steward the build…Roger Burman of Lakeside Rods & Rides. More than any other hot rod coach builder in the known world, Burman has mastered the art of turning a seldom desired ’35 […]
Event Coverage: 40th Annual Pete And Jake’s Open House
This past week Amanda talked me into going to the Pete And Jake’s Open House and 40th Anniversary celebration held in Peculiar, Mo. I’m so glad that we went. I wish we had taken the roadster, however it was super nice to be able to go into Kansas City when we wanted and getting almost […]
Pete and Jake’s Hot Rod Shop Open House
This past weekend I was able to go to Pete and Jakes Hot Rod Shop Open House held in Peculiar, Missouri. If you have never been to Pete and Jake’s I would highly recommend it. After the jump is a gallery of images that I took while at the show.
M and L Customs – Buffing the ’32
Tomorrow I am going to be going to Pete And Jake’s Annual Open House held in Peculiar, Missouri. Well I’ve been working for the past week to get my roadster ready for this show and last night I was able to take the car over to Mike Meeker of M and L Customs in Fair Grove, […]
Field Trip to Pete and Jake’s…
So this Black Friday my family and I decided to take a small field trip to go gambling at Ameristar Casino in Kansas City, Missouri. Along the way we stopped at Pete & Jake’s Hot Rod Shop in Peculiar, Missouri just north of Kansas City. To my suprise they were open. So we stopped in and […]
Hot Rod builds have to start somewhere…
Today, I started receiving quotes to build a frame for a 1933 Ford Coupe. The two companies that I am receiving quotes from are LRS Chassis in Mount Vernon, Missouri and Pete and Jake’s out of Peculiar, Missouri. I want this chassis to be built in a very particular fashion. Here is a list of […]
