Marco Diaz call us asap! We have news on the Merc! Looking forward to hearing from you!
August, 2008
Welcome,
and thank you for taking a look around! Hope you enjoy our new look as the old site was in dire need of refreshing! Ryan Cochran from the Jalopy Journal designed these wonderful pages, now i just have to upload all the content! Wow! i wish the shop would slow down so i could catch up! Please be patient as i load the projects and magazine articles and try to get the site up to speed! The first magazine feature was over 17 years ago, so i only have over 100 magazine articles to scan resize, build new pages for and upload. I doubt it will ever be a complete chronicle, but we'll do our best to follow all the press they get from all around the world.
Also, i'll be adding new Salinas Boys shirts and caps to the store soon!
You can now get all your hot Salinas boys gear at Dotseth Speed & Performance shop at 865 Abbott Street in Salinas, CA! It will help you meet chicks!
Motorbooks Publications has just released the "Cole Foster and Salinas Boys Customs" hardback book! You will be able to order a signed copy on our site soon! Get one for yourself or your favorite Hot Rodder!
Please email me if you have any ideas or pictures you would like to share! Especially if you have added one of the Cole Foster tanks to your bike! Thank you again and enjoy!
sincerely,
susan foster
May, 2007
It has been busy around here.... The Boys took Bob Timmermind's 32 Ford out of the Pumpkin patch it was sitting in to a now classic Hot Rod! New rolling chassis, chevy crate engine, all new interior and black sateen paint (by Saul) finish his new ride! He and his lovely wife Claudia were so excited to drive it to their first car show. Bob has owned this car for over 30 years and this is the first time he has drove it!
Cole and Salinas Boys have been featured in 3 books so far this year with a hard back book of his own coming out this summer by Motorbooks.
"Hot Rod & Custom Chronicle" by Thom Taylor, The book features Cole's Ol Blue 54 Custom Chevy , a now timeless classic. Along with other timeless classics such as the ZZ Tops Eliminator, Chip Foose Grand Master sedan and the So-Cal Roadster
"Hot Rod Kings" by Kevin Thompson - venture into the shops of all-steel apostles
Hot Rod Kings takes the reader into the lives and garages of 11 of today’s most highly respected hot rod builders and customizers. Cole Foster, Scott Mugford, The Kennedy Brothers, Mercury Charlie, Sean Johnstun, Keith Tardel, Rudy Rodriguez, Mike Smith, Jimmy White, and Gary Howard are all consummate craftsmen, pouring their substantial skills and knowledge into many of the tightest traditionally styled hot rods and custom cars you’ll see anywhere. No billet trailer trash or TV studio garages here. Photographer David Perry and writer Kevin Thomson spent time with each of the featured builders to bring you the inside stories of where these men came from, what inspires them, and what their day-to-days are truly all about. Perry’s photography of the subjects’ shop operations and cars in progress, as well as some of the finished rods, is accompanied by the jumping and knowledgeable prose of Kevin “BoBo Tech” Thomson, resulting in a tasty slice of the true hot rod way of life.
Also, "Rockin' Down the Highway" by Paul Grushkin features Rock Stars and their cars and as you know Cole has built a few of those! http://rockindownthehighway.com/