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1950 Oldsmobile 88 - SSBC Kingpin Kits

One advantage to building a rod or custom from a late-'40s or early '50s vehicle is that most American automakers had developed more

Nerf Bars - Tips & Tricks

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Build A High-Tech Driver

Frankly we’re tired of hearing it. Rodders with prize-winning high-tech cars explaining why they can’t drive them, and guys with low-budget street weaponry belly-aching that the high-end cars are unstreetable. Both arguments are equally bogus, and we more

Y-Block Revisited

Quick, make a mental list of famous Ford V-8s. The flathead’s a no-brainer, and so are the side-oiler 427 and Cammer. Then there’s the Cleveland, FE big-blocks, Boss 302…. The list goes on. But we’ll guess only the most die-hard Blue Oval f more

Hemi Help

Chrysler’s first hemispherical-headed V-8 engines seemed light-years ahead of the competition when introduced for the ’51 models, and stayed on the leading edge of performance into the ’60s. But by the mid-’60s, the new 426 Hemi made the ea more

Pinstriping Ideas

Pinstriping has been around longer than most of us realize. It’s a decorative art form that dates back beyond the horse-drawn buggy days. Ornamental hand-striping was last factory-applied on an American car in the late ’30s. By the mid-’40s it w more

Tips and Tricks

Rough Riders Bottoming out is not only aggravating and jarring, it’s a not-too-subtle sign of an improperly set up coilover suspension. According to Gary Heidt at Heidt’s Hot Rod Shop, who knows a few things about independent front suspension, botto more

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