1929 Model A
Owner : Sam Foose
This Ford Model A Sedan built by Sam Foose is owned by Pete DeMaria. This is the first car to have a set of Pilot seats installed, they are covered in MB Tex vinyl as well as the rest of the car. The headliner is a one off with custom overhead console that incorporates the stereo and speakers. The dash has a soft covered panel to integrate the hard painted dash with the rich upholstery. The rear seat is also a one off built to provide the room these cars deserve. The carpet is German squareweave and the dash does have storage tray. Incredibly, there are 6x9 speakers in the rear quarter panels, this can only be done when the interior is thought out as a whole project. The color is Palomino with perforated inserts.
1929 Model A Roadster
Owners : Ken & Priscilla MacDonald of California Roadster Co.
This little Model A went from display body to show car in just a few seasons. Rich did this car to show a style of "kit" that could be had from California Roadster Co. The car features a mega size trunk, mega size leg-room and traditional styling. The car is covered in Mercedes Benz Tex vinyl, with matching perforated inserts. There is a tray under the dash for storage along with a radio and the carpet is bourbon loop Porsche. California Roadster Co is the west coast stocking dealer for Brookeville Steel Bodies, if you are looking for the best steel you can buy, give Ken & Priscilla a call @ (805-227-4969) & tell them you saw their car on our site, they are also dealers for many other parts and products involved with building your street rod or custom.
1930 Ford Model A
Owner: Steve Oaldridge
1931 Ford A Model Convertible
Owners : Bill and Bobbi Wilbanks
Gary Hopper is responsible for building this beautiful street rod. Along with a folding top and headliner, this car has a custom built seat, under dash stereo and full stereo system. British Everflex was used for this interior, and Haartz Stayfast G was used for the top. The trunk has removable floors for access to storage. There are window control switches and door handles underneath the custom armrests. If you get a chance to see this car, take it! Its subtle, but if you look long enough, you will see the many modifications this car has inside and out.
1931 Model A Vicky
Owner : Dan & Kathy Twente
Full Bore Custom 3/4 length console with stereo, speakers, dome light, and storage cubby's. Santana built dash over steel face. Fully dimensional door panels with interlocking armrest. More pictures coming soon.
1932 Ford Three Window Custom Hot Rod
Owner: Lane Rollins
1932 Australian Bodied Cabriolet
Owners : Willa and Dallas Paul
The owners let Rich go with no boundaries on the interior. First, Rich contracted Airpoint Precision to build a one-off billet dash insert, housing the gauges, indicators, and two storage compartments hidden behind doors (look for the split next to the gauges). High Octane Blue is the color of the interior, so they decided the dash should match. Dropping down to the package tray, Rich made a stainless steel "guard rail" for the lip of the tray, it wraps around the package tray for a "Deadmans Curve" look and disappears into the radio box. The under dash also conceals all required instruments for operation. The car came to Rich in primer, so he used that opportunity to mock up a waterfall style center console in foam and then called on Carl Neeley to work his fiberglass magic on the buck. While Rich was at it, he had Carl fiberglass the door tops to wrap into the Santana designed dash. Thank you to Carl Neeley of Glaspro (530) 333-2472.
1932 Roadster
Owners : Al & Sally Wong
This fine traditional '32 roadster was completed using MB Tex and FineTuft carpet. The top was made using a Wescott 'glass shell and covering it with Haartz Stayfast cloth.
1932 Steel Roadster
Owner :
This is a '32 steel roadster from Half Moon Bay, California. This roadster features MBtex vinyl covering custom Santana-built seats. German Velour Carpet was used in this car. It also features the newest "Hot Rod" stereo system supplied by Santana Interiors.
1932 Zipper
Owner : Kevin Vornhagen
This rod was completed just in time for the 1998 Grand National Roadster Show. Everything in this high tech interior was hand fabricated by Rich. It was covered in MB Tex vinyl. The console houses inset seat belts, extra gauges, and the stereo. It was a cover car in Street Rodder Magazine.
1933 Ford Three Window Coupe
Owner: Bob Scarlett
This '33 Three Window Coupe is about as bad as bad can get. Steel, Blown 454, Halibrand Quick-change, chopped by Marcel, and a stereo that has more headroom than the Tabernacle. This coupe has all leather, black suede headliner, and a TON of stereo. Did we mention that the stereo in this thing is awesome? The coolest part about the interior is that it looks traditional, but hidden inside is serious sound. The seat is custom Santana built bench, covered in Connelly black leather. The door panels are also covered in leather as well as the kicks, and rear quarters. The one piece suede headliner is pleated, but absorbs the road noise. The trunk was also treated to fine stitch work as well with some pretty trick work to hide batteries and other audio equipment.
1933 Ford Roadster
Owner(s) : Phil Green & Al Megenity
Rich Santana features include modified, race-type bucket seating and Auto Meter gauges.
1933 Ford Roadster
Owner : Rich Boyd
If this roadster looks familiar, it's because it's been in Rod & Custom magazine more than a few times. This car belongs to Rich Boyd of Primedia fame. It has been the subject of many build articles and was a feature in Hot Rod magazine. The top was featured in a top article in R&C and after relocating to the gold country, Rich finished the car in time for the Grand National Roadster Show in '99. Boyd belongs to the LA Roadsters club and has enjoyed many miles in this car. It includes a custom covered dash, rumble seat, and interior covered in Mercedes Tex vinyl and Mercedes velour carpet. The inserts on the panels and seat are from perforated matching vinyl. These pictures are also showing the hand-built, removable, foldable top covered in Stayfast material. The light weight bows are hand formed from aluminum tube. The top collapses for easy storage in the trunk.
1933 Phantom Phaeton
Owner : Bob Meyer
This '33 Phantom Phaeton belonging to Bob Meyer of Salt Lake City, is completely covered in leather. This show car includes sculpted leather floors and a custom Santana-built lift off top.
1933 Ford Pickup
Owner: Mike Cooper
Mike Cooper spent seven years transforming his 1933 Ford pickup into a one-of-a-kind wild rod known as The Tubester. Chopped, channeled, and scooped, The Tubester took on an identity of its own when Mike created a custom header exhaust system like no other. Twisted tubes spill out of a 355ci Chevy 4 bolt V-8 with a 6-71 Teflon-lined blower, Carter 650-cfm carburetor and custom billet aluminum air intake, to mention only a few of the incredible modifications Mike has made to the engine compartment. Taking a look at the dashboard, truck bed and flooring one can only wonder how Mike managed to harness all that creativity before taking it all out on The Tubester! Customized to house radiators and engine cooling fans, the truck bed is covered by a ventilated floor of wooden tubes perfectly formed and molded to match the lines of the bed. What a perfect balance to the tangled tubes of the front end.
Interior is tanned leather.
And if you are wondering if The Tubester sounds as loud as it looks….the answer is YES!
Full story at wildrods.com
1934 Chevy Sedan
Owned by : Gary Rasche
This 1934 Chevrolet Sedan was built by Mike DiMatteo of DiMatteo's Street Rods in Santa Rosa, Ca. Mike took this car from graffiti night prince to Car Show King with outstanding chrome work underneath, to full tilt chromed, blown, detailed to the max small block Chevy. The under side of the car is completely chromed and the graphics match those on the outside. Mike also built this car to be driven, which is what Gary does anytime he can. Full Custom Built : Recessed door handles, window switch hidden under armrest. Window moldings removed and smoothed into panels. Custom made dash with Santana dash insert. Hand built overhead console houses stereo and speakers. Underdash cover has A/C vents and controls. Hard headliner with asymmetrical designs. Santana custom wraparound rear seat. Reworked front Camaro seats (not shown). EVERYTHING BUILT FROM SCRATCH!!
1934 Roadster
Owner : Bob Reiger
This rod features authentic horn back alligator skin inserts and leather. It also has squareweave carpet. Rich completely designed and built the wrap around dash and cockpit roll.
1934 Ford Sedan
Owner: Gary Hopper
This rod has tons of underdash panel work which is a Santana specialty. It also has a 10.5 inch monitor in the headliner. This car has tons of stereo sound. Reworked GM buckets and a Santana rear seat make this a comfortable ride.
1934 Ford Tudor Sedan
We finished this car in 2002!! These shots were taken last October 2012!! The new owner Bob Fulton is getting ready to enjoy tons more miles on this steel sedan. Originally built by Chuck Lombardo of California Street Rods, rebuilt by Carl Musser back in '02, it's all steel with a blown 350. Nice car, thanks for the opportunity to reacquaint with the job. It's always nice to see your work through the years.
1935 Woodie
Owned by: Art Fortin
This 1935 Ford Woodie belongs to Art Fortin of Gilroy. Covered in leather, the stock seat was reworked with foam, and made to fit today's drivers. The rear seats also only use the stock frame and have also been reworked in foam, this new technology lasts longer and feels better than Henry's idea seventy years ago. The carpet is tan German square weave and the top is blue harrtz stayfast. The underside of the dash is standard Santana featuring courtesy light, power port and misc. switches. Thanks to Art for keeping this Woodie really nice after so many miles.
1936 Ford Four Door
Owner: Sam and Tina Santagelo
This car has a custom Santana one piece rear seat, Mazda fronts, double opening console lids, and modified GM headliner console. The builder built the center console and Rich covered it in MBTex Parchment vinyl. The seats and panels also have perforated inserts. The trunk is covered in tan trunk lining.
1937 Chevrolet Cabriolet
MB Tex vinyl with German Velour carpet. Rich custom built the rear luggage compartments to house tools, and CD changer. Rich also built his standard underdash tray with courtesy lights. Also put into play are Santana Interiors exclusive door handles. Rich also hand built the chrome strips in the trunk as well as the custom trunk false wall to house the wiring.
1937 Ford Cabrio
Owner(s) : Rick & Nanci Smedley
This all steel 37 Cabrio belongs to Rick & Nanci Smedley of Lodi. This car has a custom built fold down rear seat to accommodate the owners wheelchair. Also an underdash panel houses the stereo, switches, a/c and has a storage shelf. The car was covered in tweed and vinyl. The carpet is Mercedes velour, and the fiberglass top is covered in Hartzz Stayfast canvas. Rich made the window and opening from scratch to the owners desire. The trunk is covered in carpet. Special thanks to Carl Neeley for the fiberglass work on the top.
1937 Chevy
Owners : Tom & Cheryl Lincoln
This car has so many bitchin' little things we did to it. We won the Manuel Arteche award at the Sacramento Autorama in '03 with the car, that is the most outstanding interior of the show. Hand formed aluminum mesh, hand built aluminum molding, 72 inch long dome light in upper console, purple/blue mood lighting, kick ass stereo. This car was a four month project at my shop. We even removed his vent windows in the doors and installed one piece CURVED glass, cut from the front windshield of a full size Blazer. New wheels, 110 volt lighting circuit for the indoor shows, new digital readouts, one-off air-ride gauge switch cluster, integrated third brake light in the rear window molding. You get the idea. We're taking this car down to Pomona for the Grand National Roadster show Jan. 22 to run for the interior award there. Then we'll take it to the Detroit Autorama, that's the big dog.
1937 Ford Sedan
Owner : Ray Shields
This is a good example of a quality interior completed with a budget in mind. It features tweed and cut pile carpet. And as with most of Rich's work it features many custom built touches through out.
1937 Ford Phaeton
Owner: Rick Plato
This car was purchased needing some TLC and Rick shipped it to Mike of DiMatteo's Street Rods in Santa Rosa, Ca. Mike did some motor mods, suspension upgrades and decided to have Santana's redo the out dated tweed interior. Rich used the original T-Bird seats and custom built a rear seat to match. The panels were also given the upgrade treatment as well as the trunk and headliner. The material used were OEM vinyl and German Squareweave carpeting. A new stereo was also thrown in to make this ride a customer favorite. If you're ever in the Bay Area, keep an eye out for the Dentist with the big smile, that's Rick.
1938 Chevy 4 door sedan
Owner : John Marsceline
Prime example of "Working with a budget". Hard headliner with matching visors. Re-worked stock seats. Custom made rear armrests. Trunk covered in trunk lining with spare tire cover. This car took approximately 2 1/2 weeks!!
1939 Ford Deluxe Convertible
Owner(s): Brent & Stephanie Schieder
Dominator Motorsports built this '39 convertible for the 2004 Detroit Autorama. We built custom door sills, custom bulkhead, one off billet trim and covered the Recaro seats in buckskin leather. Included in some of the trick stuff is the Santana made custom gas, brake and dimmer pedals.
Also take a good look at the valve covers. The owner didn’t have a plan for the valve covers, so at the last minute, we built custom fiberglass covers and covered them in leather.
Also, Carl Brouhard worked his magic on the engine cover with his airbrush mastery to match the inside chrome trim. That’s a first!! Leather covered valve covers….
Rich stitched up the Recaro seats and interior trim pieces in tan leather with perforated leather inserts. Rich completed the trim with German wool carpets on the floors and in the trunk.
View full story at streetrodderweb.com
1940 Chevy Coupe
Owner : Bill Bull
This '40 features MB Tex vinyl with Mercedes carpet and custom built front seat on a Glide frame. The rear seat was custom built to match along with the panels.
1940 Ford Convertible Deluxe
Owner : Lee Sicard
Custom built seats covered with MB Tex vinyl on stock frames. The carpet is German squareweave with Dynamat underlay for sound deadening. Custom trunk with spare tire cover. Top made from scratch with Stayfast Canvas, bows were powder coated to match paint scheme. Underdash panel contains stereo, A/C ducts, and hidden ashtrays.
1941 Ford pickup
Owner(s) : Bert & Anne Delvillano
This '41 Ford Pickup was a unique challenge given the "stretch" cab design (by Greg Barker). Unlike most Ford pick ups, we created a smooth "new car" transition from the dash to the door panels. Rich designed a unique storage system under the front seats, including CD changer, speakers, 2 drawers, and 2 additional storage compartments.
1950 Oldsmobile
Owner(s): Cliff and Terri Cortwright
Cliff loves to drive his cars, so we did a very traditional 50's 60's style tuck 'n' roll interior in MBTex vinyl. We used the original trim stainless and rebuilt the seats with new foam. This car also has a one piece headliner. This Oldsmobile Rocket 88 is a very nice driver and the Cortwrights will put tons of miles on her, you can bet on that!
1951 Mercury
Owner(s) : Mike & Bev Morales
Full Custom Built : MB Tex vinyl - FINE TUFT Velour Carpeting - floating console from dash to rear seat with flip-up storage in front and rear - opera light under console - steering wheel and dash covered to match - false trunk wall for storage and stereo components - 10 speaker sound system with 10 cd changer.
Built by: Roseville Rod & Custom.
2001 Sacramento AutoRama Winner of: BEST INTERIOR IN A CUSTOM & the MANUEL ARTECHE MEMORIAL AWARD for BEST INTERIOR OF SHOW!!
1955 Chevrolet Bel Air Convertible
Owners: Rick and Kerry Walker
This was an original Indy Pace Car. Rick went full bore with Paul Newman chassis, ZZ430 (b'day present from Kerry) and 6 spd trans. The interior is all blue Mercedes Vinyl with perforated inserts and a light touch of lighter blue to tie in the exterior colors. The seats are modified Pontiac and the rear is custom Santana seat work. The stereo also installed by Rich is Alpine unit and Arc Audio everything else. The trunk also received the full on treatment with pocket doors and a false wall that is standard in most Santana Interior jobs. The Haartz Stayfast top is a custom production unit from EZ On. The dash has been fitted with an underdash panel to cover all the wires and A/C unit. This car has won many interior awards including the Cayucas Peoples Choice. Thanks Rick for all your support. This rod was in the August 2008 Classic Chevy Magazine. CHECK IT OUT!!
1955 Chevy
Owner: Gene Garrison
1955 T-Bird
Owners : Fred & Cindy Capellas
This is what happens when a customer wants high-tech seating in a traditional car. Rich removed the stock bench seat and replaced it with custom built buckets that are ergonomically updated, but have a traditional look. He also hand built the console which flows from behind the seats down between them, ending in a custom fabricated aluminum trim plate, housing machined turned stainless steel to match the door panels. The console also has a hinged armrest, as well as the new double cup holder and storage under the armrest. Covered in matching material, the panel behind the seats house a killer sound system. This goes to show that all that is seen might deceive you.
1956 Chevy Stepside
Owner(s): John & Cheryl Agnew
MB Tex vinyl with perforated inserts, hot rod headliner, modified Monarch seats (wider & shorter). Squareweave carpet, rear package tray over gas tank and full underdash paneling.
This couple won the Poker Run 2000 with 3 Queens!! Congrats!!
This rod won "BEST INTERIOR" at the Grand National Roadster Show in San Mateo, CA!!
1956 Ford F100
Owner(s): Ted & Celeta Bond
This rod features a newer stock seat from a Chevy Suburban, custom door panels, and headliner fabricated by Rich. Rich used gray leather and Mercedes carpet in this truck.
1957 Wagon
Owner: Matt Moscato
This wagon is definitely a nice driver. The car was a basket case when Matt bought it and he has done a great job putting it back together. Covered in MB Tex black vinyl and factory grey GM cloth, this car has enough traditional trim on the inside to keep the cars theme on track. However, notice the pleated section on the panels, it has a little kick to make the design stand out a little more. Thank you to Matt for being patient and letting us take the time on the car. The car also has a one piece headliner molded into the front and the rear.
1960 Chevrolet Corvette
Owner: John and Carol DeVry
This Vette was built by the late Rick Leonard of Special Interest Auto's of Oregon. The car has all late model Vette suspension and an LS1 motor. The interior was designed to enhance the upgraded performance angle as well. Santana hand built the dash, console and bucket seats. Also on the list was to scratch build all the trunk panels and door panels. The interior is covered in MB Tex vinyl and uses German Squareweave carpeting. The top is a production EZ On top made from Haartz Stayfast cloth. Rich had Carl Brouhard custom paint the grab handle coving to match the engine valve covers. Although the dash looks like a stock Vette dash, when placed side by side, there is a huge difference in style. The custom built door panels are also one off items from Santana Interiors. The car also sports a rockin' stereo installed by Santana's.
1961 Pontiac Catalina
Owner(s): Dan & Kathi Twente
Re-worked stock seats, custom covered dash pad. Santana armrests with underpulls. Speakers built into kick panels. Trunk covered in trunk lining with false wall. MB Tex vinyl with perforated inserts. Charcoal square weave carpet.
1962 Chevy Bel Air
Owner(s): Jim Ward
On the inside, nearly four boxes of sound deadening material were used to help keep noise to a minimum. Rich did this interior with a beautiful mix of modern thinking and classic design. Believe it or not the front bench is actually the factory frame with custom padding and covered in German vinyl.
View full story at superchevy.com
1969 Mecury Cougar
Owned by: Ray and Jane Wesner
Ray always wanted to build a car in his youth, and decided there was no better time than the present. So off he went to build a unique and stand out hot rod. Big Bock Ford power, lots of IT, mini tubbed, bagged all four corners, and discs all around. The car has subtle treatments on the outside and the interior matches the theme. Rich started out with stock front seat frames, but made all new foam and built the rear seat to match. Even with a narrowed rear end, Rich was able to get 7 more inches width than the stock rear seat, due to rear panel design and execution. The console also has a stock look, but has been highly modified to house window switches and air system. It also has a storage area under the custom armrest. The material used is MB Tex vinyl and German Squareweave carpet. That same material was used in the trunk as well. Rich had custom machined pieces made for the fuel lid and horn button by Excalibur Machine in Diamond Springs, Ca. The high point of this car for the owners, besides driving the wheels off it, was being invited to the 2008 Fresno Autorama by Blackie Gejian while at the '08 Sacramento Autorama.
1969 Chevy Camaro
This rod features, BMW vinyl covering Santana-built dash, door panels, and rear cargo area. The seats are modified BMW seats.
1969 Chevy Chevelle
Owner: Chuck Hanhan
MB Tex vinyl upholstery, FINE TUFT carpet, sculptured headliner, custom trunk lining with false wall, Santana custom console, saddle stitched dash, modified Honda front seats, and Santana custom rear seat.
'93 Chevy Dually
Owner: Cliff Mattis
This is what can be done when the owner allows an artist to let his creativity express itself.
All leather custom built interior.
INTERIOR AWARDS FROM EVERYWHERE!!
'03 Chevy Crew Cab
Owner: Jake Windham
Here is a sport truck with a little hot rod in it. Freestyle motocrosser Jake Windham contracted Rich to zip out his truck in time for the 03 SEMA show. Here's what a week at Rich's shop got him. The inserts of the seats and doors were replaced with maroon suede, embroidered with the Santana logo. The hand grab and upper console were also treated to the suede treatment. Rich also installed two video screens into the headrests, and if you look closely you might be able to spot the video screen in the rearview mirror. Sport truck owners are now starting to get the idea that you need more than a stereo guy to make your truck interior look kick ass! Just look for the logo, and you'll find award winning quality and detail.
DuPont Domintor
Owner(s): Dominator Motorsports (Oakley, CA), Leonard Lopez and Tommy Enca.
You can't have ho-hum threads when the rest of the rod is so advanced! Rich Santana (Diamond Springs, CA) took the job, creating seats using mahogany (with steel bracing), then covering and saddle-stitched custom-dyed leather in a wrap-around method that foresakes traditional sideseams or skirting. Cover Car for Street Rodder.
