Ask the Expert

On this page, we hosted a feature whereby hot rodders could ask a personal question of our Expert of the Month via e-mail. The Expert, most often a pioneer, would answer the question over the telephone to us, and we would then post an audio clip on this page (see below). Unfortunately, we have had to end the feature, primarily because most of the pioneers did not want to answer a question “off the cuff”, but wanted instead to think it through, write it out, and then read it. We felt we were asking too much of them. In addition, many questions we received were not about hot rod history or traditional builds, but more about a muscle car or street rod (or even a question better put to Click and Clack!). So we were forever writing e-mails to say, “sorry, we can’t ask them that one.”

At any rate, we now have a nice archive of questions, many answered by the pioneers themselves, and we hope you will find this fun and useful.

Thanks to all rodders who participated in Ask the Expert!

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Expert: Bill Burke

QUESTION

The purple paint on your #1 bellytanker from '48-'49 was that a custom mix paint or was it a standard auto paint, Ford? Chev? Other?

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QUESTION

After years of seeing trends come and go on the salt what keeps you coming back? What do you think is the next big thing for the speed trials? Do you think there is any such thing as an inexpensive flats racer anymore or has the competetion gotten too deep for the everyman?

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QUESTION

What are you working on for this upcoming Bonneville meet?

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QUESTION

G'day! Out of all the Bellytankers & Streamliners you built which is your favourite & why?

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