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Author Archive: Chad Reynolds

The Mongrel Project Is Getting Some Paint! Watch How To Paint The Engine Compartment, How Not To Paint A Cage, And Then How To Pain The Cage!

Sometimes stuff just doesn’t go right on a project car build. It’s just one of those things when you are talking about building something from scratch and with mostly one off and custom...

4 Teams, 4 Junkyard Trucks, $6,000, And 1 Week To Buy A Truck And Build It Into The Ultimate Off-Road Machine In Pursuit Of The $10,000 Prize.

The Horsepower Wars Junkyard Challenge presented by K&N is the ultimate test of 4 man teams in an effort to build the ultimate low buck off-road machine. Each team has been given $2,500 to buy a...

Want To Become A Carburetor Guru? Learn From The Guys That Build Them! Holley Announces New Holley Carburetor 101 Classes

Everyone seems to have EFI the brain in recent years, and we understand and love them for it, but carburetors are still way more plentiful in the hot rod and racing world and we still get asked about...

Roadtrippin: Exploring Our Favorite Closed Up Junkyard And Drooling Over A 1965 409 Impala SS

(Words and Photos by Scott Liggett) Whenever our buddy Liggett has a free moment he’s either working on his hot rods or exploring something cool and historical and car related. He has more...

This Might Be The Cleanest 1975 Monza Ever And It’s Already Small Block Powered!

Monzas and Vegas were some of the cooler little economy cars of the 1970s. Like Pintos and Mavericks at ford, the Monza and Vega served to move the masses with light weight and little engines that...

Here’s Our Final Drag Week 2019 Photo Gallery: Cecil County Photos From Joe Grippo To Enjoy

(Photos by Joe Grippo) Here you go folks! These are the last photos from Drag Week 2019. Drag Week has long been one of our favorite events, as we were on the first one and many since, and we love...

Here’s Our Last Gallery Of Photos From Mecum In Harrisburg – Hot Rods, Trucks, Memorabilia And Lots Of Cool Stuff We Wish We Owned!

(Photos by Joe Grippo) Mecum Auctions have been growing by leaps and bounds the past few years. In a time when automotive auction houses find themselves battling for the biggest and best collections,...

The Summernats City Cruise! Muscle Cars And Hot Rods That Aren’t Street Legal Get To Do This Just Once Per Year!

We take a lot of stuff for granted her in the States. We can drive a big tire car down the road anytime we want and blowers are okay on lots of stuff, etc. But in the land of Oz that is not always...

Holley Releases New Accessory Drive Upgrades for LT Gen V Engines! LT Swaps Just Got Easier Thanks To Alternator And Power Steering Mods.

Swapping late model LS and LT engines into hot rods and muscle cars is easier now than ever, but sometimes factory components just can’t fit where we need them to in some of the older...

This Two-Door Tahoe Would Be An Epic Daily Driver, You Never Find Them This Clean

Two-Door Tahoes are something you don’t see every day. I still think of them as a “Blazer” and wish that is what Chevrolet had called them, but regardless of the name they are cool...

More Drag Week Bonus Photos: We Bring You More Cool Stuff From Cecil County

(Photos by Joe Grippo) Drag Week has long been one of our favorite events, as we were on the first one and many since, and we love running photos from the event’s many stops. When Grippo decided to...

Junkyard Tour, Race Cars, Hot Rods, Trucks, And More Cool Stuff From Fleming’s Pumpkin Run

(Photos by Joe Grippo) If you missed our previous photos from Fleming’s show, then click the link below to see them too. This is a great photo gallery of awesome stuff that we really can’t wait...

More Muscle Cars, Hot Rods, Classics, And Trucks From The Mecum Auction In Harrisburg

(Photos by Joe Grippo) Mecum Auctions have been growing by leaps and bounds the past few years. In a time when automotive auction houses find themselves battling for the biggest and best collections,...

More Never Before Seen Photos From Fleming’s Pumpkin Run – Race Cars, Junkyard Stuff, Trucks, Muscle, And More.

(Photos by Joe Grippo) If you missed our previous photos from Fleming’s show, then click the link below to see them too. This is a great photo gallery of awesome stuff that we really...