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Category Archive: Car Features, CHEVY, CHEVY, Hack of the Week, MISC, OTHER, Project Cars, TECH, Tech Stories, Videos

$3,500 Build: Casey Tries The 1951 Chevy Body On The Blazer Chassis. Will It All Fit?

In the last video, Casey was asking all of us viewers what we thought he should do moving forward since he may have chosen the wrong chassis for this build. With 95% of the viewers telling him to...

Don’t Have A Bead Roller But Want To Form A Beaded Panel? Here’s How To Hammer Form One In Your Shop With Standard Tools

If you have ever wanted to build a beaded panel for a project, then you know that very often the bead roller is the way to go. Of course it depends on what kind of beads you are trying to make, but...

This Homemade Welding Fixture Table Is Awesome, And Includes Killer Storage For Your Garage

I’ve featured plenty of welding and fixture table builds here on the site, because I’m a welder and LOVE a good workbench, welding table, or fixture table. Since I’m always on the...

LS Swap Cruise Control Made Simple! Use Factory Parts To Add Cruise Control To Your LS Swapped Ride

Cruise control is a nice thing to have in your car or truck, but it isn’t always easy to do in your hot rod or truck that has had a late-model engine swap. For years we’ve used the Dakota...

$3,500 Build: Can You Build A Chopped, Bagged, And Chassis Swapped 1954 Chevrolet For Just $3,500? Watch This!

When Casey said he was going to build an F100 Ford for $1,000 total, most folks thought he was crazy but he pulled it off. So after that project was done he wanted to get started on this 1954...

How To Make Patch Panels You Can’t Buy New: How To Fix That Spot In The Trunk Right Behind The Wheel Tub

With all the restoration parts available today for muscle cars and classics of all kinds, we still sometimes come across damage that can’t easily be fixed with what is available. Or, there...

The F-Bomb Project Keeps Coming Together. All The Pieces Are Starting To Be Connected And It’s Looking Killer.

This project is super cool, not only because it is going to look cool when done, but also because the methods used to build it seem really hard but actually are very simple and straightforward if you...

VW Tech: How To Pull The Body Off A VW Beetle And Then Bolt In A New Pan

VW Beetles are some of the coolest little cars every made, and are beloved by people all over the world. Besides being cool, cute, economical, and fun, they are also super simple and easy to work on...

Stop Wasting Material: These Three Tips For TIG Welding Joints Will Save You Material And Some Headaches

Practice, practice, practice. I tell people all the time that the only way to get good at welding is to turn on the machine and start practicing. Whether it is TIG, Arc, or MIG welding, the best way...

TIG Welding Stainless To Aluminum? Wait What? How To Bond The Two Like You’ve Never Seen Before

When it comes to tig welding, you pretty much can’t argue with 6061.com because the dude is a master and laying down strong and sexy tig welds. The projects are always fun, the techniques cool,...

Simple, Cool, And Effective Mobile Welding Table Project You Can Do At Home!

You know I have an affinity for welding tables and fixture tables around here and this is a super cool one that you can build at home no problem. It’s being built with some scrap stuff as...

An Electric Subaru Brat? Okay, This Is An Electric Vehicle Swap We Think Might Be Real Fun!

The idea of taking a gas or diesel-powered car and making it electric intrigues me. I think it would be a fun project and have been thinking about a few different fun cars to do the conversion on. Of...

Using A Cement Mixer To Clean A Gas Tank: Edd China’s Workshop Diaries Might Be Going Off The Deep End

A cement mixer? Hmmmm. Think about it and it starts to make some sense, especially if you watched the last episode where Edd was trying to get the rust out of the Range Rover gas tank. He put a bunch...

Barn Find Startup: Here’s What Happens When A Car Guy Just Can’t Stop Himself From Getting Something Old Running

All the “Will It Run” videos that have become so popular lately have spilled over into all kinds of stuff, and they certainly are fun to watch. I’ve been involved in making...