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Do-It-Yourself Wheel Alignment
Did you know can align your car in your driveway? All you need are a few simple tools and a little patience. Using strings to set the alignment on your car is a quick and dirty method to get you down...
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GALLERY: Majeski Spins and Wins at Dells Falloween
A late-race tangle kept Ty Majeski from visiting Victory Lane in the 2016 edition of the Dells Raceway Park Falloween event. This year almost brought the same fate. However, fortune would be on the...
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Childhood Memories Lead to Modern Fun
So many things determine the purchase of that one special vehicle in your life; not every vehicle is a perfect fit. When you find it, however, you know immediately. Childhood memories of the family’s...
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Very Rare 1970 Mercury Cougar Boss Eliminator May Be the Finest Unrestored...
Maybe if Mercury had simply called its Boss 302–powered Cougar a Boss 302, production would have totaled more than 638 units in 1969 and 1970. Mercury made 169 after production started in mid-1969 and...
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Reader’s Ride: 1974 Nova
I bought my 1974 Nova five years ago. It has the original 350 engine with 52,000 miles, an automatic, and factory air. Bodywork and a repaint were done in 2015, and the car is now an SS clone. I put on...
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Raul Torres’ transformed 1999 New Edge Mustang is a South Florida Terror
You may have heard the term “China White.” For the purposes of Raul Torres’s story, let’s just say it means a kind of addiction. An addiction that Raul Torres has had for Mustangs since 1993. In fact,...
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Rare Find: 1970 Ford Mustang Boss 302 Hiding in Plain Sight in a Plater’s Shop
Bob Perkins first saw this Bright Yellow 1970 Boss 302 Mustang more than 20 years ago in a storage shed at his plater’s house. He says, “His name is Mike Wagner. He moved the car down to his plating...
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Prevent breakage and improve performance with this S550 Billet Rear Shock...
If you’re looking for a quick and easy modification you can do at home, take a look at Steeda’s billet shock mount for the S550 (2015-present) Ford Mustang. The rear upper shock mount is located behind...
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Krass & Bernie: Who Ripped off Who?
Uh oh! Do we need to have our lawyers look into this? The guys think one of our shows ripped off their way of life. A show called Roadswill gets Krass and Bernie all riled up. The post Krass &...
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How to Adjust Brake Bias
We have often talked of the need for brake bias adjusting. We need for the bias adjuster to be centered when we have the correct amount of braking force in the front verses the rear. There are several...
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Subtly Spectacular 1963 Split-Window Corvette
The 1963 model year saw the very first complete remodel of America’s most iconic sports car: the Corvette. The C2, as us Corvette enthusiasts like to refer to it, was a complete overhaul and a huge...
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HOT ROD Anything: “Loco” the Drag Racing Belt Sander
Two Lanes of Plywood Mayhem Those bleak Northeastern winters will make people do strange (and frankly, awesome) things. Case in point: Heads-up belt-sander racing! This is John Ellsworth’s “Loco,” a...
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We Must Get The Younger Generation Into Cars, NOW!
I’ve said this before, but the automotive aftermarket industry and Mustang world in particular, is on the precipice of a serious problem. As we hardcore loyalists to the Ford Blue Oval, and especially,...
View ArticleAn Electric Corvette in Your Future … E-Ray
All of us at some point in our collective lives have uttered the expression “The future is now.” Well, the future is now. While there will be plenty of “futures” to come, the one that I am speaking...
View ArticleThe Faces of Drag Week 2017
POWERED BY DODGE AND BROUGHT TO YOU BY GEAR VENDORS Exhaustion, triumph, desperation, gratitude—a quick walk through the lanes of HOT ROD Drag Week will show you the tip of the iceberg on how people’s...
View ArticleEngine-Swap Stumbles
Taa-daa! This is a column I’ve been dying to write for nearly two years. I pictured it with triumphant fanfare; the hero returns to the city, the dragon vanquished, the 1970 Challenger runs again with...
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Krass & Bernie: A New Car Class Is Created!
The guys are getting ready for Musclepalooza, but don’t have a body to put on the beautiful chassis Bernie has put together. Looking around the garage, they might be able to cobble something together...
View ArticleSwipe Candy: Cacklecars and Fuel Funnies from SoCal’s Cruisin’ Grand
Seventeen years ago, Steve Waldron came up with the idea of blocking off several blocks of downtown Escondido, California for a car show and with the help of friends in the local business community,...
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10-Second 1963 Plymouth: The PERFECT Mix Of Street & Strip!
When Elwood Engle arrived at Chrysler in December 1961, it wasn’t a minute too soon. Dodge and Plymouth were hemorrhaging sales to Ford and GM as a result of the recently outdated “forward look” style...
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The ARP/Street Rodder Sherm’s Plating Surf’s Up Tour Part 1
For the last eight years or so we have wrapped up the Road Tour summers with the Sherm’s Custom Plating Road Tour in California. Sherm’s owner Gary Matranga and partners Art Holman and Dave Dougherty...
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