If painting a car scares you, then the thought of performing custom body-work must cause horrible night-mores and induce visions of hopelessly hacked-up sheetmetal. Lost month we tried to unravel the ...

Sheet metal has been shaped with hand tools for many centuries. All the suits of shining armor knights wore in Medieval times ...

The Great Depression slowed the world economy to a crawl, but in the United States, the national network of improved highways continued to expand during the early 1930s. Inevitably, that allowed for ...

Let's start with the name. Let's not call them Kemps, or Sleds, or Kustoms with a "K." Let's just call them custom cars. A custom is a car that has been changed, primarily by external modification or ...

The art of coachbuilding was left in the rearview after World War II, when the demand for cars boomed along with the population. The growing expectation of instant gratification left little room for ...