The Lokar/Street Rodder Road Tour '34 Ford

Precision Hot Rods Builds A Three-Window Coupe For the 2020 Road Tour

- Ron Ceridono

When Street Rodder magazine introduced the Road Tour program in 1996, the goal was to prove a street rod built almost exclusively with aftermarket components could be fun to drive as well as safe and reliable. Lobeck’s Hot Rod Shop in Cleveland, Ohio built the car for that first event. It was a blue 1934 Ford three-window coupe with white racing stripes and came to be known as The Skunk. The coupe racked up more than 24,000 miles in its first summer on the road. Since that inaugural event, a new Road Tour car has been built each year with total mileage now in excess of 500,000 miles, proving our original premise was valid.

For the 2020 Lokar/Street Rodder Road Tour, a program now in its 25th year, we returned to our roots and commissioned Precision Hot Rods and Fabrication in Macedonia, Ohio, to build a contemporary version of that first ’34 Ford coupe. Precision’s partners, Danny Tesar and Larry Brunkala have long been known for creating exceptional street rods, in fact, Tesar and painter Mark Mindzora worked on the first Road Tour coupe.