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This Reimagined Ford F-100 is a Classy Lady Built With Fire and Attitude
Rob Campbell doesn’t remember a day of his life growing up where there wasn’t a family owned Ford truck sitting in the driveway. “My dad was always a big Ford fan, and with the exception of a 30-day...
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Super Stoppers for 1957 Fords
Stopping and steering: the two most important things on any street rod. Happily, both systems have made great strides over the years and continue to improve. A quick look at how brakes have improved...
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Gorgeous Pro Touring-Style 1957 Chevy Bel Air Hand-Me-Down
The speed bug is impartial to age, but there are certainly no known inoculations. Some of us contract the infection shortly after earning our driver’s licenses. Others, years after that. Then there are...
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Wiring in the Modern Age
Automotive wiring. Years ago it was a mystery to many and a task that would strike fear in the hearts of hot rodders. Today that fear has subsided thanks to the advent of high-quality wiring kits from...
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This Stunning 1949 Cadillac Custom is Street Rodder’s 2017 Street Rod of the...
For many years, the NSRA Street Rod Nationals in Louisville has been one of the events designated for the STREET RODDER Top 100 awards. Last year we decided to do something different by including the...
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Disc Brakes with 14-inch Wheels and More Vintage Mustang Tech Questions and...
Disc Brakes with 14-inch Wheels I have a 1965 Mustang hardtop with a 289 and four-speed transmission that I am wanting to do a disc brake swap on. My question is what disc brake kit or setup will allow...
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Mach 1 Restoration Brings Father and Daughters Together
As the longest continually built domestic performance car, the Ford Mustang has millions of fans. Some love every year of production, while other, shall we say, more fickle fans only like a certain...
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Love it or Hate it, this ‘Bagged Hellcat Runs 9s
Todd Fullford’s Mopar rap sheet doesn’t include the usual suspects. Rather than a photo album peppered with vintage A-, B-, or E-body muscle, Fullford’s Mopar alphabet started with K…as in Lee...
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New Vintage Air Louvers Will Blow You Away!
Air conditioning and classic cars no longer mix like oil and water. Granted, there’s always going to be a bit of parasitic loss in power when driving an A/C compressor, but it’s a loss that is...
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High Velocity Heads’ Incredible Shrinking Combustion Chambers
New Super C heads from HVH can be a real advantage for flat-top piston classes looking for additional compression. There are tons of classes in the oval track racing world that require flat-top...
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A Phantom 1955 Imperial Convertible Wins the Triple Crown
Check the production numbers for 1955 Chrysler Imperials. The total, including two-door hardtops, four-door hardtops, four-door sedans, and four-door limousines, is 11,430. The number for Imperial...
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The Going Thing: A Peek Inside Mustang Marketing in the 1960s on Display at...
When Wes Eisenschenk from CarTech, Inc. approached me to write a book on how different automakers marketed high performance in the 1960s, I felt there was an opportunity to produce something different...
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We Test It! Hooker’s LS Engine Turbo Exhaust Manifolds
No matter how many times we test them, it still amazes us how easy it is to make power with GM’s LS series of engines. Even something as ordinary as a high-mileage 5.3L will respond to boost, and do so...
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How to Wet Sand and Polish New Paint for a Show-Perfect Shine.
You’ve done it: you put in the effort, did the research, and practiced enough with your new paint gun to lay out a nice looking paint job. There were no real problems, and your buddies are now patting...
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Upgrading Your Barn Find, Part 2
When we found our 1946 Chevy pickup it had spent plenty of time languishing in a barn, only to be recently discovered by Scott Roth, co-owner of The Auto Shoppe in South Burlington, Vermont. Covered in...
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Imagine Buying an N.O.S. Buick GS Bumper and Getting a Running 1970 Buick GS...
“I couldn’t believe it when the guy called me,” Jason Cook says. More than 10 years had passed since he left a note for the owner to call him if he ever wanted to sell his 1970 Buick GS 455. Fifty...
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How to add Subframe Connectors to your Fourth-Gen Firebird or Camaro and Why...
The task of any suspension system is to control body movement. When developing a passenger vehicle, chassis engineers strive to provide occupants with a balance of predictable handling and ride...
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Unique, Big-Block–Powered 1965 Chevelle Street Machine
Of all the things people say about their cars, the one that stands out as most common is: “I always wanted a …” It’s because we build the cars that we like. Or at least we build the ones that we like...
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Building the Ultimate Sleeper: Plain-Jane 1963 Ford 300 With a 427 SOHC Motor...
Rick Thayer grew up in a small town in the picturesque hills of central New Hampshire, one of those places where you know everyone and everyone knows you. Rick loved growing up there and over the years...
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How To Rebuild your Five-Leaf and Turn it into a Hemi Type Suspension for...
We don’t care what the Brand Xers say, we know the vintage Mopar suspension system (torsion bars and leaf springs) works quite well when set up properly. When adding big doses of power (like our ’65...
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