By Rob Fortier – Hotrod.com – Photo: Robert McGaffin.
In stark style contrast to what some may still refer to as “donks” (don’t know where the name originated, so I can’t begin to imagine what it actually refers to …), our hobby has seen a recent resurgence in what many of us here used to refer to as “custom rods”—i.e., performance-minded ’50s and ’60s fullsizers. Charley Lillard’s 1965 Buick Riviera is the perfect example of that rodding resurgence.
