Ed Roth’s Beatnik Bandit II demonstrated that Big Daddy could simultaneously satisfy old fans of bubble-topped roadsters while intriguing new, younger enthusiasts with a modern 1990s powertrain and ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. “Hot” Rod Hundley, longtime voice of the Utah ...

Winfield’s work was featured in a mid-2010s DVD series called The King of Kustoms, and he is the subject of David Grant’s 2008 book The Legendary Custom Cars and Hot Rods of Gene Winfield.

Gene Winfield opened his first hot rod shop in a west Modesto chicken coop in 1946. He later advised Detroit automakers and Hollywood producers and helped inspire Graffiti Summer in his old hometown.