Custom Car Magazine
29 September 2022

A great custom is always a great custom, but it’s greater still when the base vehicle is already an interesting rarity. So Johnny Morris’ shop truck ticks all the boxes and then some – because down below it’s a unibody Ford F100, and you can go years without seeing one of those. Johnny’s F100 is one of a trio of Fords in this month’s issue of Custom Car. There’s the ’31 Model A coupe that graces the front cover, along with a spectacular ’37 cabrio whose original owner spared no expense whatsoever in the build. We’ve also got more from this year’s Supernats – specifically, a gallery from the 32nd Street display of Deuces. That was an event where everybody baked under a fierce sun, but Tony Thacker’s report from the Bonneville Speed Week was at the opposite end of the meteorological scale – basically, it’s the story of all the great cars he saw parked up in town after days of torrential rain turned the lake into, well, a lake. Dragstalgia went ahead as planned this year, on the other hand, and our report tells all the stories from an event which, among other things, saw what was one of the most popular PBs of the year. And while we’re talking all things Pod, this month’s archive story is a beauty. Remember the iconic motoring writer LJK Setright? Fifty years ago, while he was still a young man, Custom Car sent him to the drags… with results which, seen through the lens of history, are intriguing to say the least.

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