As I sit here listening to the rain outside turning the LA basin into a disaster area, it's time to continue with my visit to Starlite Rod & Kustom right here in lovely Torrance, California. I've had the chance to visit a lot of fantastic car shops, but as you can see there's something very special about Starlite. In fact, I can't

Last month during our coverage of the Mooneyes X-Mas Party, I did a spotlight on a radical chopped and slammed Chevy pickup convertible. After seeing a sticker on the truck for a shop called Starlite Rod & Kustom, I got in contact to arrange a visit. As It turns out, Starlite is located right just a few minutes away from me, right here in Torrance

While I was in LA last week, I made a point to pop back over to the SO-CAL Speed Shop to see how their various Hot Rod projects were developing. Some of you will remember that we visited them last October and were very impressed with the in-progress builds we saw that day. So you can imagine, I was feeling very eager to swing by their Pomona facility

One item that was quite noticeable while touring the SO-CAL Speed Shop was that most of the guys working on the cars looked like they should be on MTV abusing musical instruments. At what point in time did all the new school hot-rodders start to look like rock stars? Somewhere along the line, wrenching on vintage american cars and making regular visits

As part of our goal in sharing and celebrating the love of cars, we have made plans to visit a number of specialty car builders and shops in places around the world. One of the ones that we were planning to hit was Rocky Auto, the famous builder and restorer of vintage Nissan cars located central Japan. In a response to my post about the Tokyo Nostalgic