Inspiration.
Or impact, encouragement, guidance—any way you define it, the lives we lead and the paths we take can be thoroughly directed by the people responsible for bringing us into this world.
Our parents are usually our first and foremost leaders in life, starting at birth and typically continuing even after they’ve leftus. They look over us and care for us, and it’s their daily directive that helps shape our lives. That’s why many of us follow our parents in so many ways, including our chosen careers and also our favorite daily diversions. Love of the automotive hobby is one of those qualities that’s commonly passed down from parent to child, and it’s typical to see sons and daughters follow their parents into the garage and learn from them what their parents taught them a generation earlier.
Nick Maneri Sr. and his son, Nick Jr., are from Mays Landing, New Jersey. Young Nick grew up under his father’s hot-rodding tutelage, learning the basics of auto mechanics by watching his dad wrench on one of the several hot rods he’s owned since his teens. “When I was little, I remember my dad’s Model A in my grandmother’s garage,” Nick Jr. says. “At that time, he also had a ’51 Victoria. I rode in that car and a ’35 cabriolet he still has. I was probably about 8 when he brought the Model A back home and pulled the body offto redo the car again. By that time, I was getting old enough to help out.”
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What Is Pro Street?
You know it when you see it.
Pro Street in Pure Vision
Builder Steve Strope weighs in on the Pro Street look and what he would build today.
THE GAS ERA LIVES ON
These vintage race cars chart the evolution of technology in the early days of drag racing.
MOTOR HEAD FOR LIFE
Scott Sullivan is one of the original Pro Street pioneers. He still builds cars today out of a small shop in Dayton, Ohio.
BRINGING BACK PRO STREET!
David Freiburger and Roadkill Garage built a Pro Street Nova.
SWEET ASPIRATIONS
Jerry and Matthew Sweet added an 800ci Pro Stock mountain motor to chase HOT ROD Drag Week's Pro Street NA Record.
Making Bad Decisions Badder
Bradley Gray's 1970 Nova is a Hybrid! It's a streetable Funny Car.
ART PROJECT
This Rad Rides by Troy-built '63 split-window Corvette went from restaurant prop to ripping up the street!
WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
THE PRO STREET ERA PEAKED IN THE '80S. ARE WE IN THE BEGINNING OF A RESURGENCE?
Making Connections
Project T-top Coupe: We install a Terminator X Max for big power.