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Motor City Rumblers

You might say their favorite gear is reverse. These hot-rod groupies seek to resuscitate a car scene that nearly flatlined in the late ’80s. The Rumblers Car Club, founded in 1996 by Roger Miret, a vocalist for the punk/metalcore band Agnostic Front, claims members from Albuquerque, N.M., to Hamburg, Germany, to New York and, of course, Detroit. Last summer, local members gathered outside Midtown’s Majestic Theatre, where the cars were clearly part of a carefully cultivated persona.

Photographs by Joshua Kristal

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Top Left: Tim Ankenbrandt of Maumee, Ohio, and fellow members tinker with a 1952 Ford F-100. Hot rods and Rust Belt emblems are the attractions of the day.

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