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Johnny Zaro 1941 Ford

JOHNNY ZARO 1941 FORD Originally created for John Vara by George Barris. This radical full fade away fendered 1941 Ford padded topped Convertible is best known as the Johnny Z...

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1989 Oakland Roadster Show

1989 OAKLAND ROADSTER SHOW Bob Dzemske and his son visited the 1989 Oakland Roadstershow and captured some of the many Custom Cars that were entered in the 40st Anniversary of...

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1950 Oakland Roadster show

1950 OAKLAND ROADSTER SHOW In 1950 Al and Mary Slonaker organized the first Annual National Roadster Show. Mostly entered by Hot Rods, but the Custom entries in this show has always ...

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John Quintal 1956 Album

QUINTELL 56 ALBUM Nor Cal Custom Enthusiast Ron Brooks has an amazing collection of Custom Car Historic material, and the great thing is, he loves to share it. This time Ron s...

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Gil Ayala at the 1951 Roadster Show

GIL AYALA AT THE 1951 ROADSTER SHOW Lynn Ayala recently share some really great historic Custom Car memorabilia from her dad. Gil Ayala entered the Ayala built 1940 Mercur...

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Dick Read’s T-era – almost finished

ITCHING EXPERIENCE In this last article on Dick Read’s Show Car, the T-era, we show you the second part of how it was created. Go to part one, or part two of the Dick Re...

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Dick Read’s Show Rod – How it was created

HOW IT WAS CREATED In the first article on Dick Read’s Show Rod we showed you how the car looked liked when it was competing on the car-show circuit. In this second arti...

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Dick Read’s T-era Show Rod

LOST 60’s SHOW ROD In the late 1960’s Dick Read from Hoopeston, Illinois designed and constructed his dream Show Rod. after showing it for two years Dick sold it a...

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Former AMBR painted by Larry Watson

LARRY WATSON PAINTS THE NIEKAMP ROADSTER The first winner of the prestigious Most Beautiful Roadster award, at the Oakland Roadster show in 1959, was Bill Niekamp’s 1929 Model A Roads...

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About CCC

Custom Car Chronicle: THE BEAUTY OF CUSTOMIZING

Custom Car Chronicle is a online magazine and forum, for custom car and hot rod people who are looking for inspiration, historical knowledge, and a place were their passion can be shared.

CCC is created by a small, international group of custom car, hot rod, model car, art, design-, photography-, and architecture enthusiasts.
Editor in chief is custom car historian- Rik Hoving.

For centuries people are inspired to built beautiful cars. CCC focuses on everything that ignites that special inspiration: design, history, technology, perfect proportions, the right feeling, and amazing personal stories.

Johnny Zaro 1941 Ford

1989 Oakland Roadster Show

1950 Oakland Roadster show

John Quintal 1956 Album

Gil Ayala at the 1951 Roadster Show

Dick Read’s T-era – almost finished

Dick Read’s Show Rod – How it was created

Dick Read’s T-era Show Rod

Former AMBR painted by Larry Watson

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