Zipper Motors was founded by Darrell Zip in 1986 as a full service street rod shop.  The “Lakes Modified” styling blending Hi-tech suspension components has evolved into three truly unique “Lakes Modified” offerings; the “27” Roadster, the “New” Roadster, and the Coupe.

Zipper Motors has completed a move of manufacturing from Grand Junction, Colorado to Farmington, Utah.  Darrel Zip has transferred the company to Jeremy and Duane Palmer (formerly Beehive Hot Rods).  They have been working with Darrell for the past few years building turn key Zippers and the past year working and training at Zipper Motors.  Thirty years of Zipper quality and innovation will continue and there will be improvements in availability and lead time.  Darrell remains involved providing improvements to the current line-up, development of new ideas and years of expertise.
An entry level “Fabricator Package” and an intermediate “Good Start Package” are offered as well as new suspension packages.  Zipper Motors will continue to offer “Turn Key” builds on any of the Lakes Modified platforms. For More information visit Zipper Motors at www.zippermotors.com

The folks at Sanders Reproduction Glass have recently invested in a new CNC “water laser” and digital pattern management system. This high-tech advanced technology will vastly improve their already high-quality flat glass cutting capability as well as reducing the turn-around time for custom flat glass orders.

“The new application of digital technology to our industry is unique. No else is doing this.” Says Tyler Phillis, Sanders’ Managing Director. “We’ve vastly reduced the time it takes to produce a custom window glass from hours to minutes. Now we can fabricate a glass that not only looks better but fits perfectly as well.”
The older, manual glass cutting process has hot rod, classic truck, and custom car owners waiting weeks or months to get their custom glass orders, plus, the amount of handling required in the older manual process almost guarantees some degree of minor chips and scratches. Sanders Reproduction Glass’ new “water laser” technology allows ‘em to offer not only a less than 14-day delivery time, but a guaranteed fit, as well!
If you’re getting’ close to the point where ya aught to start thinking about glass for your project it’d do ya good to give these guys a shout (360-883-4884) or check out their Website, www.sandersreproglass.com for a heads-up and a head start!

THE CODDINGTON LEGACY LIVES ON
The Sons of legendary Hot Rodder Boyd Coddington announced today the start of their new company, Sons Of Boyd™ LLC. The S.O.B. (Sons Of Boyd™) will be dedicated to carrying on the Coddington legacy and the memory of their father, Boyd Coddington.

Sons Of Boyd™ is owned and operated by Boyd’s sons; Boyd Jr., Chris and Gregg. “Through various venues, our mission is to share all the incredible memories we have of our father and to keep his vision and passion for hot rods and customizing going”, says Chris Coddington.
The Sons Of Boyd™ are currently working on a tribute web site in honor of their father, sonsofboyd.com. The official launch of the production will be on what would have been Boyd’s 64th birthday, August 28, 2008. Chris stated, “You can look forward to viewing and reading stories of our own experiences growing up in the industry and in the Coddington home”. At the site, you will be able to view the trio’s personal accumulation of archives that include countless photos and video footage from behind the scenes. In addition, the site will include some of the most awe-inspiring automotive and hot rod photography anywhere and includes never seen before photos of some of Coddingtons famous creations including; Aluma Coupe, Alum Truck, CheZoom, CadZZila, Boydster I and II, Smoothster, Led Zephyr, and many other noteworthy cars built by the master craftsman. There will be on location interviews from some of the industry’s most notable builders, build previews, shop tours and personal stories from the employees, builders, designers and friends that supported to inspire Boyd. Boyd Coddington Jr. added, "Our goal is to build a tribute to our father and to share with the world the man that we knew long before reality TV and corporate builds."

The Coddingtons will offer a line of apparel that will include vintage artwork and designs from some of the leading aftermarket designers. Greg Coddington added, “The apparel line will represent the core of what has come to be known as the Boyd Look.  Greg continues, "our apparel will include limited reproductions of the most sought-after T-shirts and hats from the 70's and 80's including, the popular Hot Rods By Boyd™ T-shirt", said Gregg Coddington. Gregg goes on, "I am very excited about the Sons Of Boyd™, in fact, it has inspired me to uncover a very special project my dad and I were building together, a 1927 Ford Touring Roadster, you will be able to get a peek at sonsofboyd.com. We hope to have the project ready to unveil sometime in late 2009".

Flowmaster announces NEW 10 Year Warranty - Effective Immediately
Flowmaster, Inc. has announced they will extend their 3 year warranty on all Flowmaster brand Street Mufflers and Kits to a 10 year term.

This warranty will include all Aluminized and Stainless mufflers, and all kit systems. Flowmaster’s use of High Quality materials, and superb craftsmanship, has resulted in the extension of this warranty period. Over the past 25 years, Flowmaster has come to be known for the extreme value their products offer due the “unbreakable” legacy of the muffler. The newer Hushpower Muffler brand by Flowmaster is located in Hayden, ID and will continue on with its 3 year warranty term. For more information, please go to the Flowmaster, Inc. website: http://www.flowmastermufflers.com

The Goodguys/Classic Instruments 2008 Street Rod of the Year award was presented to George Poteet’s jet black “Delivery Deluxe” 1932 Ford Sedan Delivery at the Goodguys 11th PPG Nationals in Columbus, Ohio. For Poteet, a man who’s won every major award in street rodding over the past two decades, the goal all along with this fresh car wasn’t to win awards, but to “just have a stark and plain sedan delivery.

Enter 44 year old builder Dave lane of Fast Lane Rod Shop in Donahue, Iowa – the man responsible for building Poteet the “Delivery Deluxe.” Lane is a throwback to the European coach builders of the 20th century - a master builder and fabricator who’s the unquestioned street rod impresario of his generation. The man is simply incapable of building something plain and ordinary. Anything he builds has even the most hardened pro builders scratching their heads in amazement.
Back in 2003, Lane and Poteet teamed up on another black ’32 Ford – a five window coupe that won the 2003 Street Rod of the Year title, also here in Columbus. For the record, this is the fourth car Lane has built for the Memphis businessman.
This particular collaboration with Lane started four years ago. The “Delivery Deluxe” took Lane two years and three months to complete. For starters, Lane, who works completely alone in his Iowa shop massaged and reshaped all four fenders, lengthened the body/with doors shortened 1.5 inches (do not try that at home!) and scratch built the chassis installing stainless steel rivets to attach all the cross members and motor mounts. The inside of the car is just as impressive as the outside, where Lane used a myriad of industrial metal and wood products and even went as far as installing seats adorned in Carhardt jacket fabric!
“It’s an unbelievable feeling to win this award with George” Lane said. “George has been the lifeblood of the street rod industry for many years. He’s single handedly kept rod shops alive with various projects over the years.”
The top 5 finalists for this year’s award included Joe Stuban (’32 Ford roadster), Poteet’s “Delivery Deluxe”, Mack & Shelley Bernd (’32 Ford Cabriolet), Steve Legends (’36 Ford Roadster) and Sam Magarino (’32 Ford roadster).

Tech Specs – “Delivery Deluxe” ’32 Ford Sedan Delivery, George Poteet, Memphis, Tennessee.
Overall Fabrication and Construction: Fast Lane Rod Shop, Donahue, Iowa
Body: steel ’32 Ford sedan delivery. Body lengthened/doors shortened 1.5 inches, flush mounted roof insert, pie cut hood, fenders cut and reshaped, custom splash aprons.
Chassis and Suspension: Hand built chassis, stainless steel riveted cross members and engine mounts, handmade wishbones (front & rear), Hot Rod Works quick change rear end.
Wheels: Custom machined and milled two piece fourteen spoke wheels, proportionally correct from front to rear. Handmade center caps.
Interior: All hand made steel and wood structure, Carhardt seats, ’32 Ford truck door panels. ’32 Chrysler gauge panel with Classic Instruments custom gauges. Downsized stock ’32 Ford steering wheel.
Engine & Trans: 327 Chevy with “double hump” cylinder heads, tri power (est. 400 hp) Ford top loader 4 speed. Chromed exhaust with Jet Hot inside coating.
Body and Paint: Fast lane Rod Shop. DuPont Super Jet black base coat clear coat.

Casey Coker gets a Tour of the car and Jerry let's everyone know whats coming up for the rest of the 2008 STREET RODDER / PPG Road Tour on the first day of the Coker Tire portion of the Tour.

Check out the video from the Corky Coker Blog in the link below.

http://blog.coker.com/index.php/2008/07/14/street-rodder-road-tour-2008/

You'll probably remember the impressive Model A tub Jeff Eischen debuted last year (all black, kidney beans, lots of rivets and featured in the February '08 issue STREET RODDER) and he's at it again, only this time with a '23 T.

He's building his own tubular space frame, which will be hidden by a belly pan and an aluminum floor. Friction shocks and quarter-elliptics say "traditional" as does the Model B four-cylinder, which will be fed by a pair of sidedraft carbs. We can't wait to see it at the Goodguys Columbus show in July.

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Free hot dogs and cold drinks

Tee shirts specific to the event just $5.00 (money donated to Brenner Children’s Hospital)

Music - Door prizes - 50/50 drawing

Jim Rizzo, the technical editor for STREET RODDER, has always had a good eye for hot rods, and has built many in his home garage.

One recent project, a '32 roadster pickup (with its body coming from another STREET RODDER staffer: Ryan Manson), features a straight six and a decidedly traditional design concept. Well it's found a new home with SR's senior editor, Eric Geisert, in a deal that included getting Jim a '65 Econoline pickup (a five-window), which he's wanted since he was a kid. We'll have to see who is the one on the road first.

Are commercial vans cool or what?

Divcos (used in the milk home-delivery era back in the day) and other specialty vehicles had a round, futuristic look to them even though their own destiny was doomed (the price of gasoline precludes personalized stop-and-go home delivery like that nowadays). There are still a lot of these vehicles out there-anyone have one to share?

Hot rodders have always been pretty creative when it comes to figuring out a trick way to get around the fairgrounds at a rod run (motorized bar stools, etc.).

But Scott Stevens, from Ennis, Texas, had something that was really unique: a twin-engine mini bike. What looked like modified Schwinn spring forks up front and a leaky gas tank (hence the plastic cup to catch the dripping go-juice) didn't hinder the performance-we saw him riding it and it looked like the double motor setup worked fine.

For the folks with unlimited budgets for their traditional hot rods, there is only one choice for brakes: Kinmonts.

Something akin to the Holy Grail, even those "in the business" have only seen a couple of pairs of these special brakes in their flifetime, so imagine the surprise when we found a set of four, chromed, Kinmonts laying in the back of a pickup truck at a local swap meet. The price? Are you sitting down? How does $15,000 sound? The guy said it with a straight face so we guess he was serious.

We've seen a lot of ways to take care of the radiator overflow, but this was a new one.

Collin Casey, from Dripping Springs, Texas, used a glue pot (used mostly by upholsterers) mounted in front of the grille on his '32 Ford five-window to collect whatever might spew out of his engine.

History is happening all the time.

Even though their were a lot of historic cars inside the 2008 Grand National Roadster Show, outside the Hall of Fame ceremony on Saturday morning, well-known painters (left to right) Rod Powell, Dennis Rickleffs, Dick Jackson, Larry Watson, Dean Jeffries, Hershel "Junior" Conway, and Pete Santini all gathered for a rare photo. Anybody got a special story on one of these guys?

With STREET RODDER opening their pages up to post-'48 vehicles nowadays, there are a whole slew of cool cars that we think our readers would like to see. Any fans of '61/'62 Buick Specials out there?

Carrying the spear-point front fenders from '61 Electras and LeSabres, the Specials and Skylarks were the new compact division for Buick. Yes they made wagons, too, but the two-doors set up on a 112-inch wheelbase sported the new Buick aluminum motor-a 318-pound, 155-horse V8. This one, spotted in South Carolina, is running 20s and 18s, wrapped in 225/35ZR20 and 225/40ZR16 rubber.

While at the Big 3 Auto Parts Exchange (the once-a-year auto swap meet in San Diego, California) we spotted several booths set up that catered to the Crosley automobile, with one guy selling Crosley crate motors. Crosley were those little cars (on an 80-inch wheelbase) made from '39 to '52, and known mostly for their wagons (though they made sedans and pickups, too).

We didn't know Crosleys still had that kind of following to warrant several booths of parts, but it would be fun to plunk one of these little four-bangers (44 cubic inches!) into a T-bucket and see how it works.

With the LA Roadster Show around the corner and a number of fellow staffers planning on hawking a few things out at the swap meet this year, I began to wonder which way the trend was going to go in regards to car prices.

Due to the current state of the economy, it will be interesting to see if prices in the hot rod market will follow suit. Here's a trio of Deuces from previous Father's Day Shows. Asking price on the 3-window and the 5-window was $85k and $49.5k respectively, while the roadster was listed at $32k. Anyone know where these cars are today?

- Ryan Manson

With the prices of Deuce bodies rising more steadily than the cost of fuel or the flood waters in Iowa, Charles Franklin and his shop Vintage V8 Restoration has resorted to what may very well be the most desperate of options.

Culling parts from eBay, swap meets, and horse trades, he's just about ready to start assembling a '32 5-window body completely from scraps. Keep your eyes peeled for the full story in a future issue of SRM.

-Ryan Manson

It's Father's Day weekend approaching so it must be time for the L.A. Roadsters and their great get together in Pomona.

The largest roadster show on earth, pretty big words but true, will be happening this weekend at the Pomona Fairplex in Pomona, California.

You can expect to see nearly 900 roadsters, 100-plus manufacturers showing their latest goods and 1,500-plus specialty cars in preferred parking. Oh, did I forget the swap meet. It is as good as it gets in SoCal so be sureot bring plenty of bucks as there is bound to be something that you need for your next project.

You can checkout laroadsters@aol.com or call the hotline at (310) 544-4200 for a message giving you plenty of info.

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Congratulations!  SEMA Action Network-supported legislation to create classic motor vehicle project titles was approved by the Kentucky State Legislature and signed into law by Governor Steve Beshear.  The new law applies to vehicles at least 25-years old, not road-worthy, and currently without a title or with a title from another state.  Under the law, a classic motor vehicle project title would prohibit the use of vehicles bearing these titles on the highway but, once restored, a regular title could be issued.

Thanks to all of you for contributing to this successful effort!

A version of SEMA model legislation to create a vehicle registration and titling classification for custom vehicles (including kit cars and replicas) was approved by the Tennessee State Legislature and signed into law by Governor Phil Bredesen.  The new law defines a custom-built car as a vehicle that is built for private use and is not constructed by a licensed manufacturer or remanufacturer.  Under the law, kit cars and replica vehicles will be assigned a certificate of title bearing the same model year designation as the production vehicle it most closely resembles.

In signing the bill into law Governor Bredesen said, "I view this as a responsible, proactive way for enthusiasts to register their vehicles in a safe and controlled manner."

Congratulations to all of you for contributing to this successful effort!

Congratulations!  The California old car hobby convinced California Senate legislators to amend legislation (S.B. 1549) that sought repeal of the state's current emissions test exemption for pre-1976 vehicles registered by new owners in the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District.  The District includes eight counties in California's Central Valley.  Under the original bill, after Jan. 1, 2009, new owners seeking to register a pre-1976 vehicle in these eight counties would have been subject to emissions tests for the life of the vehicle.  Under the amendment, the repeal language was removed and the bill instead now requires the DMV to study the state's special license plate programs and recommend improvements.

Thanks to all of you for contributing to this successful resolution!

The Tennessee State Legislature has approved legislation to create a vehicle registration and titling classification for custom vehicles.  The bill defines a custom-built car as a vehicle that is built for private use and is not constructed by a licensed manufacturer or remanufacturer.  Under the bill, kit cars and replica vehicles will be assigned a certificate of title bearing the same make, model and year designation as the production vehicle it most closely resembles.

We Urge You to Contact Governor Phil Bredesen (Contact Information Below) Immediately to Request His Support for S.B. 2729

• S.B. 2729 provides a specific registration/titling class for customs, including kits and replicas.

• S.B. 2729 provides that a replica vehicle will be assigned a certificate of title bearing the same model year designation as the production vehicle it most closely resembles.

• S.B. 2729 provides that custom vehicles owners will be provided a title that identifies the vehicle as a replica.

DON'T DELAY!  Please contact Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen immediately to urge his support for S.B. 2729

The Honorable Phil Bredesen
Governor's Office
Tennessee State Capitol
Nashville, TN  37243-0001
Phone:  (615) 741-2001
Fax:  (615) 532- 9711
E-mail:  phil.bredesen@state.tn.us

A version of SEMA model legislation (H.F. 2452) that would create a vehicle registration classification for street rods and replica vehicles was approved by the Iowa State Legislature and signed into law by Governor Chet Culver.  H.F. 2452 defines a street rod as an altered vehicle manufactured before 1949 or a vehicle designed to resemble a vehicle manufactured before 1949.  The new law defines a replica vehicle as a reproduction of an originally manufactured vehicle with the substitution or addition of parts to update the vehicle for purposes of safety, performance or reliability.  The law allows street rods and replica vehicles to be assigned a registration designation bearing the same model year that the body of the vehicle resembles.

Thank you for your efforts on behalf of this new law!

The winner for 2008 was a 1935 Ford three window coupe, owned by Doug and Flo Hoppe. The car was built by Roger Burman and the guys from Lakeside Rods. Congratulations to Doug and Flo Hoppe for another stunning car. (they also own the Ring Bros. '67 Mustang that won last years Goodguys Street Machine of the year)

Click below to read more about the 2008 Street Rod d'Elegance on the Goodguys web site.

http://good-guys.com/news/newsStory.aspx?newsid=960