Lime green, pungent purple and apple red blasted Old Town out of its sandy hued past Saturday. Dozens of souped up cars popped up on San Diego Avenue and none more out of character for the historic ...

LOS ANGELES – Jim Brucker walks through an auction gallery at the Petersen Automotive Museum and talks about the art on display that he helped create. Not as an actual artist, mind you. That title ...

If the vehicles at this year’s Cars at the Capital exhibition look familiar, that’s because you may remember them from much smaller versions: Ed “Big Daddy” Roth’s 1961 Beatnik Bandit hot rod and the ...

“Kustom Kulture: Von Dutch, Ed 'Big Daddy' Roth, Robert Williams and Others” opened at the Laguna Art Museum in July 1993. The show proved to be pivotal to the movement, illustrating Southern ...

For generations Angelenos have been transforming wheezing junk-ers into the flashy dream machines that define Kustom Kulture. Jacked up and lowered down, chopped and polished to a blinding luster, ...

Cars souped up or piled on top of each other. Young women naked or in bikinis, sitting in hotrods or straddling motorcycles. Surfers catching that most awesome wave, dude. These phenomena and more can ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Relics of Southern California’s recent past will be on sale this weekend ...

There was a time when you could drive your car into Von Dutch’s shop in Venice, California, and have him pinstripe it for $25. Usually it was more than that, but there were a couple of jobs done for ...