Car Guy Confessions

With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam Benty Presented by ARP Doug Jerger of Squeeg’s Kustoms provides insight into the judging and history of the AMBR competition. Having won the award in 2011 and been a part of winning roadsters since; the crew at Squeeg’s brought out their latest creation to compete again. The Foose-designed Brookville body highlights custom rods from the ea

With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam Benty Presented by ARP The Car Guys welcome Dean Livermore of Hot Rods by Dean in Phoenix, Arizona. Since 2001, the shop has crafted many award-winning hot rods, muscle cars, Kustoms, and trucks. Their latest creation was up for the Slonaker Award at the Grand National Roadster Show. It’s not just a cookie-cutter Chevrolet C-10 on air bu

With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam Benty Presented by ARP Ron Cambra and his team at Cambra Speed Shop in Orange, California are the Grand National Roadster Show’s 2024 Builder of the Year! They celebrated bringing out several builds including a full kustom Merc. As a kid, Ron ventured to the Oakland Roadster Show seeing Kustoms and insane chopper motorcycles on display and w

With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam Benty Presented by ARP Iconic street rod, muscle car, and land speed builder Troy Trepanier of Rad Rides by Troy joins the Car Guys to share his journey from pro-street-inspired builds to winning the AMBR and Ridler awards. Currently, several builds are ongoing at Rad Rides by Troy including the long-term F1 and Ferrari technology-laden F87 Ca

With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam Benty Presented by ARP Next on our Car Guy Pro Street Pioneer Series is the one and only Rick Dobbertin. Rick’s iconic Pontiac J2000 “Most Famous Pro Street Car” is now in the good hands of the Hay’s. Rick shares his pro street journey and wild builds on the road, water and both! Rick Dobbertin’s Surface Orbiter started as a fuel tan

With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam Benty Presented by ARP Next on our Car Guy Pro Street Pioneer Series is Matt and Debbie Hay! The couple have continuously looked to keep Pro Street heritage in the spotlight. Their famous Tbird saw a full restoration and was featured in Dorito’s Super Bowl Commercial with Chance the Rapper and the Backstreet Boys. Beyond that car, now turned

With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam Benty Presented by ARP The first of our Car Guy Pro Street Pioneer Series, and the first door slammer to break into the 6-second 1/4 mile, Rod Saboury and his wife Tina sit in to share their story of pushing the outlaw racing and pro street envelope throughout the years. Rod shares his numerous Corvrvette and Camaro race cars that helped set t

With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam Benty Presented by ARP The Car Guys are all back together! Did another winter in Iowa turn Jeff Smith into a true snow farmer? Did he trade his high horsepower builds for skillet tossing and bike rides? Steve Strope breaks down the judging behind America’s Most Beautiful Roadster and the Slonaker award at the GNRS show. Cam Benty brings up a

With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam Benty Presented by ARP We will be recording from the Grand National Roadster show again this week. We took a look back at the last few years and the amazing guests we have had including Troy Ladd of Hollywood Hot Rods, Tim Strange, Mike Ring of the Ring Brothers, Pete Santini, and last year’s AMBR Hot Rod winner! Visit www.arp-bolts.com

With Jeff Smith, Steve Strope, and Cam Benty Presented by ARP Sean Smith Designs joins the Car Guys again at the Petersen Auto Museum, this time with Marcel Venable from behind the scenes. Sean and Marcel reminisce of the early mini truck and import designs Sean has done. Sean shares the design process behind comedian and car guy Kevin Hart’s Roadrunner dubbed ‘Michael Meyers�