Red Dirt Rodz’s latest creation- The Kontinental
In 1938, Edsel Ford asked Ford designer Bob Gregorie to design and build a custom car. This car would be Edsel’s personal conveyance. Edsel wanted some specific [...]
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Making a Shaping Block
Content provided by: Chris Fleming For those of us car and motorcycle builders who have been building and restoring for years, there isn’t much in the world of wrenching [...]
Getting Started: Sheet metal
Unless you buy a brand new body from Year One, Goodmark, or any number of catalog restoration houses, you will likely face body panel and sheet metal repairs on some level. [...]
We Break for Brakes: Recreating Broken Taillights with Polyurethane Casting
Unless you are building a 32 Ford or a ’69 Camaro, chances are you have run into a broken part that nobody reproduces. While you can repair many things, certain objects [...]
Factory-Fresh: How Fiberglass Bodies Are Built
If you’re not familiar with factory five racing get ready to be impressed. Factory Five was founded in 1995 and is the world’s largest manufacturer of component [...]
Quarter-Pounder
Inheriting a project from another person sometimes means getting to fix things that had been glazed over. Such is the case with this 1965 Mustang coupe. This particular [...]
Factory-Fresh: How Fiberglass Bodies Are Built
If you’re not familiar with factory five racing get ready to be impressed. Factory Five was founded in 1995 and is the world’s largest manufacturer of component [...]
Sheet Music: Working with Sheet Metal and Autobody
So you managed to finally take delivery of that new project car, or maybe just decided the rust was getting too far gone to let it slide any further, either way, you [...]
How To Install Custom Gauges- 1971 Buick GS Gauge Upgrade
In the 1960s and ‘70s, most cars were limited on engine monitoring devices. Most muscle cars were lucky to get a tachometer, which you had to pay for. Some higher-end [...]