Rod Mugs
Description: The modern definition of a "rat rod" is a custom car with a deliberately worn-down, unfinished appearance, typically lacking paint, showing rust, and made from cheap or cast-off parts. These parts can include non-automotive items that have been repurposed, such as using a rifle as a gear shifter, wrenches as door handles, and old saws as sun visors. A rat rod may or may not have extraneous decorations, but will always exude a great deal of personality due to the imagination required of the builder.
Description: 13 funny cartoon cars in one holiday design! Hot rods, muscle cars, classic cars, vintage cars with lots of chrome and crazy style illustrated in the shape of a Christmas tree. For anyone who loves cars and the MuscleCarToons style car art by Jeff Hobrath.
Car Madness Christmas Tree! Classic Muscle Cars and Hot Rods Mug
by hobrath
$13 $18
Description: Founded in 1964 in Columbus, Ohio, Nationwise was a chain of auto parts stores in the United States. In 1974, Nationwise partnered with Columbus-based engine builders, The Rod Shop, sponsoring a series of highly successful drag racecars. In stores, a Rod Shop section was created as kind of a speed shop inside of a parts store. In addition to go fast goodies from all the big names, Nationwise also sold Rod Shop branded performance parts. These parts were typically embossed with NRS (Nationwise Rod Shop), making them easy to identify by collectors, even decades later. The Rod Shop partnership ended in 1987, and less than a decade later, Nationwise became insolvent, and closed all stores on Sunday, October 15, 1995 at 3:00 PM.
Description: Awesome Vintage Hot Rods Forever design by Jeff Hobrath for the automotive enthusiast. Distressed antique grunge aged style graphic. If you love hot rods, classic cars, muscle cars, old school custom street rods and hotrod cars, this design is for you! For dads, grandpa, men, women, kids and anyone who loves hot rods, classic cars and muscle cars. Perfect for car enthusiasts on Christmas, birthdays and fathers day. If you’re a fan of automotive nostalgia and vintage hot rod cars you'll love this car art!
Vintage Hot Rods Forever Distressed Classic Car Nostalgia Mug
by hobrath
$13 $18
Description: R.A. and F.D. Stranahan are essentially the founders of Champion Spark Plug Company. Sort of. At the very least, they ended up with the patent on the Champion name which they legally and wisely used to eventually create the largest spark plug manufacturing company in the world. But it certainly didn’t start out that way. More than 20 thousand dollars in debt, and with a company that was fledgling along at best, the brothers had little choice but to move to Toledo when Willys-Overland Motor Company offered R.A. and F.D. a contract under which Champion would become the exclusive spark plug of automobiles manufactured at Willys-Overland. The deal came with the stipulation that the Stranahans must make Toledo their home.
Description: Rodman Edward Serling was an American screenwriter and television producer best known for his live television dramas of the 1950s and his anthology television series The Twilight Zone. Serling was active in politics, both on and off the screen, and helped form television industry standards.
Description: The Ansen Automotive company traces its roots to a machinist named Louis Senter, a California native and machinist's mate in the Navy during World War II. Louis opened Senter Engineering with his brother in Los Angeles, where they worked on custom machining for hot rodders. The Senter brothers found another partner in engine building specialist Jack Andrews in 1947, and the trio combined their last names to re-christen the business Ansen Automotive Engineering. The new firm developed many go-fast parts as well as began building dry lakes racers, midgets and drag racers in-house. Ansen Automotive speed shop was also where Louis developed complete engines that were popular with racecar drivers, moonshiners and the revenue agents chasing them.
Description: A rat rod is a style of hot rod or custom car that, in most cases, imitates (or exaggerates) the early hot rods of the 1940s, 1950s, and early-1960s. The style is not to be confused with the somewhat closely related "traditional" hot rod, which is an accurate re-creation or period-correct restoration of a hot rod from the same era. Most rat rods appear "unfinished", regardless of their status, as only the vehicle's bare essentials are driven. These are built to drive, not exclusively for show.
Description: What do you get when you mash up hot rods and monsters? In 1980, the answer would have been Weird Wheels trading card stickers. Featuring a checklist of colorful creations along the lines of the late '60s Odd Rods cards, the set blends Kustom Kulture with matinée horror. The cards themselves have monsters and other creatures driving absurdly customized cars, trucks, and motorcycles. As cool as the cards looked, they came out at a time when the Kustom Kulture was well past its peak, and the set flopped, but that doesn't mean they're still not cool! This one features the 'Hot Rabbit' in his triple drive wheel hot hatch from card #2.
Description: A special collection of American classic cars, hot rods, muscle cars, street rods, monster trucks, pickup trucks, low riders, 4WDs, and a cool chopper, 51 highly detailed full color cartoon illustrations all in one graphic.
Hot Rods, Muscle Cars, Street Rods, Trucks and Motorcycle Madness! Mug
by hobrath
$13 $18
Description: The A100 is a range of compact vans and cab over trucks were made from 1964 to 1970 in the United States and Canada. These vans are without question a vanner favorite and this retro gasser inspired design shows the 'Kalifornia Wagon' A100 with a 426 Hemi mounted midship gettin' some on the way to the beach to catch some tasty waves.
Description: American thirties style hot rod with cool red paint and custom classic hotrod flames, chopped roof, big tires and chrome rims.
Classic Bold Red Custom Street Rod Car with Yellow and Orange Hotrod Flames Mug
by hobrath
$13 $18
