Aspen Miller prepares her horse Scoot for a ride in Santa Fe. Photo by Stuart Villanueva

Quarter horse and rider form winning team

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Tom Malone owns a lovingly restored 1949 Willys-Overland wagon. Malone did all the work except the painting during the four-year, frame-off restoration. Photo by Stuart Villanueva

’49 Willys is a monument to off-road rugged

In 1994, Tom Malone went looking for the skin and bones of an automobile suitable for building into a hot rod. He came home with just about the exact opposite. He was hunting a hare; he bagged a tortoise. [Read more…]

Kathi Richardson shows off her yellow 1967 Corvette Sting Ray on the west end of the seawall in Galveston. Photo by Jennifer Reynolds

Islander’s 1967 Sting Ray still has value and cachet

Wouldn’t it be nice to be like the Chevrolet Corvette? To start off up near the pinnacle of cool — among the elite of things powerful, sleek, stylish and sexy — and then just keep getting cooler as the years roll by?

The 1967 Corvette models turned 50 this year, but have grown exponentially in both value and cachet during those five decades. [Read more…]

Mike Landry started with the shell of a 1950 Chevy when he began building his custom lowrider. Photo by Jennifer Reynolds

Lowrider blends disparate parts into a harmonious whole

People encountering Mike Landry Jr.’s lowrider for the first time might suffer a little dissonance. On the one hand, it has the familiar sweeping, elliptical silhouette of 1950s American passenger car. But even with all the digits of the other hand, it’s impossible to put a finger on exactly what it is. [Read more…]

Billy Glines, of Friendswood, owns a beautifully restored 1935 Chevy Standard three-window coupe. Photo by Stuart Villanueva

This coupe is a showstopper, but the real story is under the hood

You’ll think you’ve seen something special when you first see Billy Glines’ 1935 Chevy Standard coupe gleaming in the late morning light. And you have; but all the same, you ain’t seen nothing yet. [Read more…]

Mike Pearson and his wife, Patty, turn heads when they cruise around Galveston in his 1972 Nova SS. Photo by Jennifer Reynolds

Frame-off restoration results in near-perfect Nova street rod

The first thing any car nut looks for when meeting any one of Chevy’s Super Sport models from the late ’60s to early ’70s is the little plates above the front fender reflectors. [Read more…]

Brad Varley shows off his 2015 Lamborghini Huracán at the Harborwalk marina in Hitchcock. Photo by Jennifer Reynolds

This Lamborghini might be sophisticated, but it isn’t tame

In the early 1960s, Italian tractor tycoon Ferruccio Lamborghini announced to the world he would build from the dirt up a factory to produce super sports cars that would make Enzo Ferrari’s creations look cheap and timid in comparison. [Read more…]