The origin of rodding has one place. Detroit. Motor City. The name says it all.
No matter if you raced at Muroc or Gatornationals, Bonneville or the quarter at Sibley and Dix, it all started with guys making the cars. Make no mistake. If it got modified in Long Beach, it was made in Detroit. Henry started an obsession that passed through generations of tinkerers whose names read like a phonebook. The Alexander brothers. Bill Mitchell. Chevrolet. DeLorean. Duntov. Exner. And literally hundreds of guys whose names end in "ski".
That obsession's still pretty active in the unique rods and customs of Detroit and the MidWest. Maybe you feel it in a hazy blue fog behind a built Challenger or see it in a tarnished and patina'd flathead Cruising Woodward, at Billetproof or Autorama. Stay a while, check out the pics, the history and the art page. Maybe you have some history of your own you'd like to share. And pick up a shirt to keep us up and running. Thanks for looking and come back anytime.
Motor City Hotrod shirts and stuff
MidWest event pics Autorama, Woodward, etc.
Art, or a caffeine-induced need to draw cars
Detroit historical images, people and races
Detroit area rods and customs
