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Shelbys Take Over the Las Vegas Strip
The Shelby Bash is all about having fun, in the spirit of Carroll Shelby, which at times borders on the mischievous. This seems to be the theme of each Shelby Bash, now in its 11th year, the first...
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2018 Piston Powered Auto-Rama: Pre-War Street Rods
Picture a big table covered with 1,000 ignition keys. If the 1,000 keys belonged to the approximately 1,000 vehicles participating in the 2018 Summit Racing Equipment I-X Piston Powered Auto-Rama,...
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Dodge Demon Front Frame Rail Repair and Inner Fender Replacement
Restoration is supposed to be about returning something to new or like new condition. It can be done in varying degrees depending on the level of perfection desired, but with some muscle cars it can...
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Assembled Piece by Piece, This 8-Year Build is Finally Complete
Ron Porter from Hudson, Florida, is a retired Marine contractor who specialized in building boat docks and boat lifts. When he was not modernizing elements in the maritime industry, he was enjoying his...
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Better Late Than Never: Breaking In A 10-year-Old Engine
Q. I’ve been redoing my 1941 Chevy pickup for the last 20 years. I have a completely fresh 283 with flat tappet TrickFlow heads and I’m getting ready to fire it. I put it together about 10 years ago...
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Rebuilding C3 Corvette Front Suspension
Once you leave the realm of a nut and bolt, numbers-matching, full-on restoration your options are many. Our ’68 Corvette falls into that category. A high-mileage, non–numbers-matching car, it is still...
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Inside the Full-Floating Rearend
Some technology that seems new is usually derived from older technology. The new Ford Coyote engine screams of the vintage 427 SOHC engines of the ’60s. Sometimes, technology or design is reused...
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Robert Anderson’s No Way No Hay Hauler 1940 Ford Pickup
It doesn’t matter if you hug trees or blow smoke out your tailpipe in the breeze—trucks have been and will continue to be a fixture in America for decades to come (mark my words, huggers, there’s a...
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Silver Sport Transmissions First to Offer 6-Speed Kit for Chrysler LX
Chrysler never offered a manual transmission for the Chrysler LX Platform which includes the Chrysler 300, Dodge Magnum, and Dodge Charger; Silver Sport Transmissions rectified this great injustice...
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Third Disc Is The Charm! New Clutch Holds Damn Near Anything!
Top Fuelers and NASCAR guys saw the light and began using multi-disc clutches decades ago. That’s because the design has a couple of very real advantages over single-disc clutches when it comes to...
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Ford Steering Coupler Replacement
Old trucks are not known for their cornering prowess. Their utilitarian nature was the very antithesis of high-performance handling, with wide steering wheels and broad steering ratios to make...
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Photo Exclusive: Bombs Away In Gainesville
In the wake of what had been an expensive pair of season-opening NHRA events for John Force Racing, it was hoped that Gainesville’s 49th Annual Amalie Oil Gatornationals would see a turn for the...
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A Timeless Wonder
Heads-up drag racing is a rough, tough gig that requires time, money, and the right components to stay on top. Racers are often chasing the trick of the week and building and rebuilding all pieces of...
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Scott’s Hotrods Moves Shop to Knoxville, Tennessee
It’s a long trek from the Southern California beach town of Oxnard to Knoxville, Tennessee, but Scott’s Hotrods ’N Customs is relocating its entire operation to Knoxville into a 20,000-square-foot...
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Furious Fords at the 49th Annual Mello Yellow Amalie NHRA Gatornationals
This past weekend the 2018 NHRA Mello Yellow drag racing tour moved east to Gainesville Raceway in Gainesville, Florida for the 49th Annual Amalie Gatornationals. NHRA national events get you up close...
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Pristine 1978 Corvette Pace Car
Some might look back at the late 1970s and think those were the saddest years for American sports cars and muscle cars. From a power perspective that might be true thanks to—in no small part—stringent...
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We remedy oil pump reliability in our Continental Tire Week to Wicked 2013...
When the Coyote engine hit the streets under the hood of the 2011 Mustang GT, to Mustang fans it was like the 2003-2004 Cobra’s second coming. Great power, excellent drivability, and responsive to...
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How to Prepare a Car for Fresh Paint
Like most things in life, creating a great paintjob involves hard work, education and experience. And like virtually everything in our universe, bodywork materials, tools and products are in a constant...
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Custom-Built, Big-Block-Powered 1970 Nova Street Beast
A great many of us coddle our special cars; that’s a fact. After all, they are exalted and quite likely become members of the immediate family. Some cultures hold that by any estimation nature as a...
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Ron Koehler’s 1985 Corvette Coupe
What inspires a man to build a fast ride and take to the road? Is it raw passion or wanderlust? Perhaps it’s the pulse-quickening excitement of brute acceleration on a vast stretch of American highway...
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