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Please call (909-393-4005) or Email (ccrhotrods@yahoo.com) if there is anything we can help you with. California Custom Roadsters builds a full line of Street Rod components. From a simple bracket to an entire Roadster package, plus a line of quality products from most major manufactures.
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Jan 24, 2013 · One of those profiled was Bill Keifer, owner of California Custom Roadsters. Bill was one of the first people in the street rodding hobby to sell the Fad-T — arguably the first street rod. Based on a T-bucket body, and with heavily chromed (and blown) engines, the wind-in-your-face roadsters became very popular.
Jan 16, 2019 · Sep 1, 2019. #12. Yes, we have a showroom and do retail sales. We are open Tuesday (10-5) through Saturday (9-12). Please call first and let us know you're coming. Jerry Keifer. California Custom Roadsters. www.californiacustomroadsters.com /email ccrhotrods@yahoo.com / (909) 393-4005.
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Henry Ford introduced the Model T in 1908 and it quickly became the best-selling car in the world. Although Ford is erroneously credited with inventing mass production (more accurately, he is responsible for utilizing mass production as a method of building cars), many of Ford's early competitors also featured interchangeable parts, simplified desi...
The basic Model T body was in a state of constant change from 1908 to 1927. There were numerous body styles, including roadsters, coupes, delivery trucks, touring cars, runabouts, and many others. But many buyers soon yearned for something more exotic and distinctive than the ever-present Model T. Soon, custom bodies, grilles, and trim parts were i...
The earliest places to race hot rods were SoCal's dry lakebed dirt ovals. Although Model A and '32 Ford rods (as well as a small number of rods built from other cars) soon joined the Model T on the tracks, T-buckets were the backbone of early speed events.Dry lakes cars emphasized streamlining and power, so stroker cranks, supercharging, and nitro ...
The most significant event in the history of the hot rod took place in January 1948, when the movement got its own magazine. The first issue ofHOT RODshowed that homebrewed performance had arrived big time. Needless to say, the cover car was a Model T—a track roadster driven by Eddie Hulse.Hop Upmagazine followed three years later, and a Model T ro...
While the T-bucket has been acknowledged as being the iconic cornerstone of the street rod world, it is still sometimes looked down upon by owners of other types of hot rods, as the cars still don't garner the recognition they deserve. Total Performance's Mickey Lauria looks at it this way: The T-bucket continues its reign because it's the cheapest...
Norm Grabowski built and owned the car acknowledged by many as being the first Fad T (a customized T-bucket). TheKookie Cargot its moniker from the nickname of the character (Gerald Lloyd Kookson III) on the TV show77 Sunset Stripwho drove the T-bucket around town: Kookie. Norm sold his T in the early '60s, and its appearance was heavily altered by...
On season 3, episode 2 ofHOT ROD Unlimited,Thom Taylor drives a channeled, topless Deuce roadster in the dead of winter from Nashville to Los Angeles, encountering what you would expect in the middle of winter: ice, rain, cold, frost—did we mention cold? Watch the roadster slip, slide and spin 2,000 miles as Thom takes Interstate 40 through eight s...
- Harold Pace
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- Ford
Jun 30, 2012 · Somewhere along the line, the company name was pluralized and today, California Custom Roadsters is located in Chino, CA. Sadly, Bill Keifer passed away in 2004 but the Keifer family continues the tradition building some of the highest quality T-Bucket bodies, chassis’ based on the original plans, T-Bucket kits, accessories and complete high-end T-Bucket roadsters.
20575 • Deluxe Roadster Package, Extended T-Body ea. $13,450.00. 20577 • Deluxe Roadster Package, Extended T-Body with Door ea. $14,350.00. 20579 • Deluxe Roadster Package, Slicktrack Roadster Body with Door ea. $15,500.00. Sort by. Printable Deluxe Package Flyer & Info Printable Basic Package Flyer & Info PICTURE GALLERY California ...
May 10, 2014 · The new Slicktrack Track Roadster from California Custom Roadsters (CCR) continues a 40 year tradition of designing and building beautiful T-Bucket hot rods. Of course, California Custom Roadsters is famous for their T-Bucket Chassis Plans , which have become a reliable standard in the industry since the mid-’70s and which we are proud to be able to offer to T-Bucket builders.
