Celebrating Dan Gurney’s Life In Pictures
This recount of Dan Gurney could go on for a novel. How can one stop talking about a man so highly regarded as a racing driver, innovator, engineer, and legend? Spraying champagne after his Le Mans...
View ArticleWeek To Wicked 2013 Mustang: Day 4
We’re well past the mid-point of our Continental Tires Presents Mustang360 Week To Wicked build, and we started day four by mounting the factory front fascia with the ROUSH updates, which included the...
View ArticleThe Roadkill Fleet Goes to the Zip Tie Drags!
They kind of have to, since it is their event after all! If you’re heading to the Roadkill Zip Tie drags this weekend, you’ll get to see some of your favorite automotive celebrities of the internet in...
View ArticleHorsepower Wars — Who Had the Most at the Detroit Auto Show?
You can’t go wrong buying a muscle car these days. The Big Three are all boxing with engines that’d make the mountain motors of the 60s blush with relentless horsepower and torque combined with...
View ArticleIgnition Timing Is Free HP. Here’s How To Get The Most!
Ignition curves are the key to creating optimal performance. Ignition timing is easily the single most important tuning adjustment on an internal combustion engine and yet the concept of ignition...
View ArticleTwo Sons Restored their Late Father’s 1972 Cutlass in his Honor.
This Radiant Green ‘72 Cutlass was originally ordered by a father and is now owned by his sons, and serves as their tribute to him. Look up the word “Cutlass” in a dictionary and you’ll find it defined...
View ArticleImmaculate 1965 Pro Street Corvette
It’s not his fault. Mike Veeder hails from a hard-core Corvette clan that was so much so that he can’t remember any other cars being there besides Corvettes. He says that dad, Ozzie, was his...
View ArticleWeek to Wicked: Day 5
It’s been a long week that ran late into the nights during our Continental Tire Presents Mustang360 Week To Wicked build, where we took a stock 2013 Mustang GT and transformed it into a high...
View ArticleProfessor Hammer: Straightening a Wrinkled Panel
The wrinkle in this panel can be corrected with a little “love” from a hammer and dolly. Q. Thanks for your previous help with my Model T coupe. When I bought the car, it came with an extra set of...
View ArticleCoyote Power Part 2, Our Ford Performance Power Module Install
Since we introduced the Ford Performance Parts Coyote Power Module package we’ve been busy installing a 5.0L Coyote V-8 and 6R80 automatic transmission in a fat Ford, specifically a 1941 woodie. We’ve...
View ArticleSTREET RODDER Presents New Products to Change Your Old Ways Favorably
Aeromotive Brushless is Beautiful Aeromotive, a marketer of premium quality fuel delivery systems and components, introduces the company’s first series of brushless fuel pumps. Designed specifically...
View ArticleAccessories for Your Chevy LT1
It’s a brave new performance world out there and technology’s getting a big push from engines like GM’s new Gen V gasoline direct injected (GDI) engines. STREET RODDER has jumped head first to offer up...
View ArticleHistoric High and Mighty 1950 Plymouth Gasser is Still a Street/Strip Warrior
Eye of the Beholder Primitive. You know the neighborhood car guy. Chances are, you are the neighborhood car guy. The one who’s asked for advice on what car to buy, or what that strange noise is coming...
View ArticleBackyard Built, This 1970 Chevelle was Made to be Driven Hard
If you spent a lot of money on a car, would you even drive it? Would you just trailer it everywhere, or would you thrash the hell out of it? Over the course of 10 years, Robert Ortega has slowly...
View Article392 Chrysler Hemi Build and Dyno Test: How Does the Whale Motor Respond to...
Fire Power Flirtations In a 1952 presentation to the Society of Automotive Engineers titled “New Horizons in Engine Design,” Chrysler Engine Design Chief James Zeder wrote, “The power of an engine...
View ArticleCar Craft’s List of the 27 Coolest Things at the 2018 Mecum Auction in Kissimmee
In the background, the hammer falls Wayne Schemekle’s unrestored 1970 Boss 302 Cougar Eliminator sold for $121,000 Cars of every shape and size show up at collector auctions, and there were more than...
View ArticleUpgrade Your GM Charging System with A One-Wire Alternator
The charging system of your Chevy is a vital piece of the reliability puzzle, and if you’re relying on a crusty original alternator you might be on borrowed time. The fact of the matter is an original...
View ArticleHistoric Englishtown Raceway Park Shuts Down Drag Racing
The drag racing world was dealt a devastating blow with the announcement that Old Bridge Township Raceway Park in New Jersey will no longer host drag racing on its iconic quarter- or eighth-mile drag...
View ArticleHappy New Year, Mecum! Kissimmee Collector Car Auction Sees $96.6 Million in...
The hammer falls, the auctioneer yells, “SOLD! SOLD! SOLD!” and everybody is happy. This year Mecum’s Kissimmee auction featured more than 3,000 vehicles, with more than 2,200 of them sold over a...
View ArticleModernizing Old Halibrands & American Racing Wheels
There’s an almost universal truth in the world of obsolete parts: the sweetness of a deal is sometimes inversely proportional to the utility of the score. That manifold you found for $100 fits Desotos...
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