What Happens When You Take a Six-Cylinder Maverick, Put EFI on It, and Then Hose It Down With Tons of Spray? Laughs Beyond Measure, Wicked-Cool Launches, and One Really Big Bang.
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'70 Mach 1This real '70 R code Mach 1 originally delivered with a 428ci Cobra Jet and the Drag Pack option is the subject of Tom
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This is one of many car-mag stories that have been done a million times. But the thing is, the concept of what's a bargain and the cars that fit the definition continue to change. There was a time when Hot Rod told you to go buy a '70 Barracuda and turn it int
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Oh yes! It’s nice. The steering wheel we installed on Toby’s Makeover car doesn’t have a bad angle. Now we’ve got guys leaning way inside the car to get a better look. With one little step we’ve made a huge leap in drive-in eye glue, a
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By now you know why we are here, if you don’t then read Mustang Makeover Part I and come back.
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We met Tobias Geye (Toby) in our own back yard and immediately noticed the ultra-straight body and near-perfect paint on his ’69 Mach 1. We also noticed the 15x10-inch steel Street Stars, weird offset, too-tall ride height, and other wrongish details that
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Since its last feature in the December ’95 issue, the Budget Beater has been out accumulating more than 15,000 miles of road duty. In that time, some changes have been made to the car in an effort to make it ride better, more dependable, run quicker, and
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Driving project cars, regardless of condition, is perhaps the most rewarding aspect of owning them, but it’s not easy keeping middle-aged iron on the road. While tooling our ’62 Ford Galaxie 500 XL to the office, we counted no less than 15 bushing-
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The SplitFire Performance V roadster was bolted together the last time we saw it but needed a substantial amount of fine-tuning. The final assembly, paint, polishing of chromed components, coating of nonchromed pieces, and interior took more than a month. Spli
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Last month, we kicked off the buildup of SplitFire’s off-the-shelf wunderkind, and this month we continue the mayhem. Take a look at the details and hang around for the last installment next month, when we put the final touches on this sweet street roadst
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Project Freeway Fats is a ’39 Ford Tudor sedan. In this series of build-up stories, we’re detailing the fabrication, restoration and assembly of the car using some of the top builders in the country as sources. Many of the build-up techniques involve
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Project Freeway Fats is a ’39 Ford Tudor sedan. In this series of build-up stories, we’re detailing the fabrication, restoration and assembly of the car using some of the top builders in the country as sources. Many of the build-up techniques involve
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Project Freeway Fats is a ’39 Ford Tudor sedan. In this series of build-up stories, we’re detailing the fabrication, restoration and assembly of the car using some of the top builders in the country as sources. Many of the build-up techniques involve
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Project Freeway Fats is a ’39 Ford Tudor sedan. In this series of build-up stories, we’re detailing the fabrication, restoration and assembly of the car using some of the top builders in the country as sources. Many of the build-up techniques involve
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Project Freeway Fats is a ’39 Ford Tudor sedan. In this series of build-up stories, we’re detailing the fabrication, restoration and assembly of the car using some of the top builders in the country as sources. Many of the build-up techniques involve
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Project Freeway Fats is a ’39 Ford Tudor sedan. In this series of build-up stories, we’re detailing the fabrication, restoration and assembly of the car using some of the top builders in the country as sources. Many of the build-up techniques involve
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Project Freeway Fats is a ’39 Ford Tudor sedan. In this series of build-up stories, we’re detailing the fabrication, restoration and assembly of the car using some of the top builders in the country as sources. Many of the build-up techniques involve
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Project Freeway Fats is a ’39 Ford Tudor sedan. In this series of build-up stories, we’re detailing the fabrication, restoration and assembly of the car using some of the top builders in the country as sources. Many of the build-up techniques involve
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Project Freeway Fats is a ’39 Ford Tudor sedan. In this series of build-up stories, we’re detailing the fabrication, restoration and assembly of the car using some of the top builders in the country as sources. Many of the build-up techniques involve
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In the automobile’s earliest days, frames consisted of nothing more than a couple of straight rails and two or three crossmembers. In contrast, most of today’s cars are built using unibody construction, in which the body itself serves as the basic pl
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Street rodding may allow greater individual expression than any other form of hot rodding. The range of raw material itself gives a huge panorama from which to choose. A builder may select a ’23 T-bucket or a ’48 Chevy two-door, a ’32 highboy ro
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