Category Archive: Sideways
Sideways With Rodney Prouty: How To Build A Thirty Five Thousand Dollar Car, By Spending Fifty Thousand!
(Text by Rodney Prouty, Photos By Rodney Prouty and Suzy Bauter) So, you’ve decided you want a hot rod? You start scanning the internet for ideas and opportunities. You start scouring the forums...
Sideways With Rodney Prouty: Why You Should Let Your Girlfriend Hang Out With Your Mistress
(Words and Photos by Rodney Prouty) Why You Should Let Your Girlfriend Hang Out With Your Mistress I should be clear: I don’t actually have a mistress. At least not a traditional mistress, that is....
Sideways With Rodney Prouty: So You Want To Get Sponsored? Can You Afford It?
Afford being sponsored? This isn’t making much sense. Or is it. Read the latest from Rodney Prouty on the topic of sponsorship. It will make you think. (Words and Photos by Rodney Prouty) So...
Sideways with Rodney Prouty: Remember Where You Came From
(Words and Photos by Rodney Prouty) Every day I walk into work at a speed shop where I see black and white images of our racing legacy. We have tattered old posters of racing events at historic...
Sideways With Rodney Prouty: Who is “That Guy”? Wait, I Know, I Know…
Every week or two Rodney Prouty sends us his next edition of Sideways and we love them all. Great stories from a regular Joe hot rodder who races his daily driver ’68 Camaro as often as...
Sideways, With Rodney Prouty: Being The Underdog May Be A Handicap, But Rodney Doesn’t Show It
Sideways, with Rodney Prouty, shows the trials and tribulations of a regular working stiff who built his car on his budget, drives it every day, and races it as often as he can. Oh and did I mention...
Sideways, With Rodney Prouty: I Knew What I Wanted Before I Knew What I Wanted…
In this edition of Sideways, Rodney addresses the fact that he knew what he wanted out of his hot rod even before there was a name for it. Just like all of us, he built a car in his mind based on...
Sideways, With Rodney Prouty: But It Was Cheap! Oh Those Famous Last Words…
In the last installment of Sideways, with Rodney Prouty, Rodney brought us to the present with some inspiring words about a driving school that he had recently attended. In this installment of...
Sideways, with Rodney Prouty: An Average Hot Rodders Adventures In Car Building And Racing
The first Sideways, with Rodney Prouty, got great feedback and Rodney is really cranking on these things because we already have another in the can for next week. Read on. As always with Rodney,...
Sideways, With Rodney Prouty: An Average Hot Rodders Adventures In Car Building And Racing
Rodney Prouty is our hero. He works at one of the most prestigious speed shops on the west coast, drives a bitchin ’68 Camaro every day, races said Camaro on the weekends, and does it all on a...