Learn to fully restore your musclecar's vinyl dashpad.
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Applying a Professional-Grade Epoxy Floor Coating Has Never Been More Straightforward Than With the UCoat It System.
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The Bare-Bones Basics On Getting Started With An Affordable Mig Welder.
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Forget Custom-Fabbed Jaguar and Corvette Setups; Bolt-in Independent Rear Suspensions for Musclecars Are Now a Phone Call Away.
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We Know You Guys Can Spin Wrenches And Bend Metal With The Best Of Them. Maybe You'd Like To Do It In The Big Show For Glory And Big Bucks In Nascar. Here's How You Can Break In.
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Air Suspensions Have Hit Mainstream Hot Rodding. We Explain Everything You Need To Know About Them.
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Ready To Put Some Sub-Ambient Air In Your Ride? Here's Everything You Need To Know About Air Conditioning And What's Out There For Your Car.
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Mark Sanchez's '83 Mustang convertible has been around the block and then some. Serving as a test mule for Advanced Engineering West, Sanchez's high-tech Ford engine swap and ECM reprogramming business, the well-worn ride has seen everything from carbureted 5.
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It's time to reach beneith the surface to see what is really hiding under that old paint on your ride. Find out which method is best for you as we delve into the many methods you can do to take it down to bare metal.
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How To Drop A 5.7L Hemi Crate Motor And An A-518 Overdrive Automatic Into A Classica-Body.
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Finding Out What It Takes To Stuff An LS7 Crate Motor In An Early Camaro, Dry-Sump And All.
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In part 6 of Hot Rod's Ultimate Get to Paint and Body we show you the correct way to sand, prime and pick the best paint for your car.
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The tough part is over. Last month's installment in our Paint & Body series covered the application of topcoats-color, clear, special effects-over prepped and primered sheetmetal. Getting the right results from the spray gun is probably the job that intimidate
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This is the first of a ten part series that we'll be covering over the next few months. We'll go through it all. In this installment we as the tough questions that you need to ask yourself.
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Part 3 of Hot Rod Magazine's Ultimate Guide to Paint and Body. This time, we go over dent removal and how to manipulate metal.
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In part 4 of Hot Rod's Ultimate Paint and Body Guide, we're waging war on rust!
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Part 5 of Hot Rod's Ultimate Guide to Paint and Body: Building a Better Body Through Proper Panel Alignment.
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Freiburger figured he'd won the lottery when he scored a nearly mint, rust-free '73 Ventura parts car for 300 skins. Other than a heavy shunt in the rear that totaled this once-fine ride, the original V-8 Pontiac represented the mother lode of parts and pieces
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How They Make It: Coker TiresHarold Coker started Coker Tire Co. in 1958 with the goal of providing rare and obsolete vintage tires to antique car collectors. By 1974, it had evolved into primarily a BFGoodrich dealership with a small division for the vintag
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You Really Can Build a Cobra From Scratch. Factory Five and Muscle Car Restorations Shows How.
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In most parts of the country, when you flip the calendar page over to October, the "car" season is officially done. Race tracks close, cruise spots roll up their sidewalks, and all the nice cars go into hibernation. Conveniently, I moved from L.A. to Detroit t
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Every month, nearly every hands-on car magazine, this one included, runs at least one illustration from a professional designer showing a new project either under construction or under consideration. Pro builders hire these pro designers to help them conceptua
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Even Mopar guys seem to relegate 318 small-blocks to one of two fates: leaving 'em running happily bone-stock in beaters or tossing 'em in the dumpster after an engine swap. Sadly, the most ubiquitous LA engine has always been viewed as the useless punk of the
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Plunging below the 3,000-pound weight barrier has always been a critical goal for those wanting quicker e.t's at the strip...
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Springs, shocks, antisway bars, wheels, tires: That's what usually comes to mind when we think "handling"...
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