During the heyday of customizing it was a common trick to use the trim off of one car on another. In the '50s one of the premier examples of such a swap was the stylish stainless steel side trim found ...

During his day job, Travis LaVine labors away on cars of the past, transforming them into jewels for the show field. By his ...

The custom car trend ignited in the 1940s, when builders like Harry Westergard started making styling modifications to fat-fendered cars. But the 1950s was when the trend exploded, in the shops of Sam ...

Jim McNiel first saw the car in 1959. It was from a past era, its age visible by the scratches and dents it had sustained. The low-slung custom car scene had been replaced by the muscle car age by ...

Few parts of the car ownership experience are as vexing and confounding as fading, discolored plastic… Okay, that may be a bit of an exaggeration. But that worn and weary plastic trim can be some of ...