"I've owned '57 Fords ever since I got my driver's license," Joe Montaigne told us when we asked him about his passion for these finned '50s Fords. That passion dates back to a small coal-mining town ...

Contrary to conventional wisdom, a car doesn't always need radical bodywork, flashy wheels, and candy-colored paint to capture attention in the rod and custom realm. Sometimes you can wow your peers ...

The cult of the 1957 Chevy may lead casual automotive observers to believe that nobody else built cars that year. Those of us who obsess over old iron, however, are well aware how pivotal 1957 was for ...

James Schanmier, 42, lives in Belmont with his girlfriend Tami and son Zachary. He attended Burlingame High and currently works at PG&E. My passion for cars goes back to the mid-1970s when I was a ...

Thirty years ago, we spent the '70s fondly remembering the '50s. It was fashionable to dress up in '50s attire with a leather jacket, butch waxed hair, and a t-shirt with a pack of cigarettes rolled ...