NSRA National Field Director’s Rides
Antique Poly, then Firebird Red and later Viper Red, switched to Bright Alcohol Metallic and with blue added you have its current paint scheme. The highway flyer runs Extreme-built Chevy 355 power backed up by a 700R4, the Nova front subframe that started it all, a ’68 Nova rear with 3:08 gears on parallel leafs, Billet Specialties wheels and a tan leather interior.
Charlie and Janie’s original ’40 Chevy coupe is still kicking around with over 320,000 miles on the odometer. Purchased as a basket-case driver, it’s been rebuilt many times and usually repainted each time. In primer when purchased, it first went
Charlie and Janey stories is when one of their friends asked why they had their picture in so many maga- zines and Charlie replied: “If you go lots of places and do stuff, you get in the magazine, and that’s also how I became your National Field Director.” In 2004 North Central Division Director Mike Chrispyn became an NSRA Event Director and Charlie moved into his Division Director position (IL, IN, KY, MI, OH, WV, and WI). Once Charlie was in charge, he found out he not only loved meeting all his NSRA family, but he also really enjoyed finding the right guy for the right job and soon realized the better people you know the better your choices. Charlie and Janie kept going to tons of Divisional events and promoting rodding in America’s heartland and decided after 30 years of sitting unloved, the Charlie was not a fan of the ‘Little Piggy Pink’ paint when he bought this ’57 Chevy so it was completely blown apart and put back together using an Extreme small-block Chevy backed up by a 700R4. This was the car that Charlie had wanted
old Model A was ready to be built, but before then, there was one more promotion coming. Many remember former National Field Director, the late Jake Moran, and upon his passing Tom Wilkerson became the National Field Director for a couple of years before joining the ranks of Event Director. In 2014 Charlie took over for Tom and he hasn’t looked back since. In an effort to get to know everyone everywhere, all the different loca- tions, and keep up on how rodding is progressing the National Field Director makes most of the shows nationwide every year and that’s when rod- ders all over the country get to meet Charlie and Janie. All that travel is awesome, but way more impressive when you see that Janie had a stroke about ten years before the promotion and needs a me to shoot for the feature as his latest build, but the timing didn’t work out. Currently, Charlie is building a ’34 Ford five-window coupe with 383 power, a Pete & Jake’s chassis along with all the good stuff.
68 MAY 2026
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