Growing up in Southern California during the 1970s, Joe Santiago's automotive interests could have easily gravitated toward shag-carpeted vans or neutered musclecars with hokey graphics. Fortunately, ...

Oscar Ruelas, 78, a car builder, retired longshoreman and co-founder of Duke’s car club, who lives in Los Angeles, on his 1954 “Mr. Lowrider” Chevrolet Bel Air, as told to A.J. Baime. I started ...

RB's kit was chosen mainly for the fact that it's a foolproof, bolt-in package, and the research taken to devise the kit could be used to reconstruct the Chevy's framerails. Plus, the fact that it's a ...

My dad was a hot-rodder. In 1970, the year I was born, he and a friend took the straight-six out of his 1954 Chevrolet Bel Air and put in a small-block V-8 with a Muncie M22 four-speed manual. When I ...