I’m not a country music fan, but I did grow up in the ‘80s. In fact, I was 10 when Kenny Rogers starred in the TV movie The Gambler. As a result, I still have etched in my brain the title song’s hooky chorus, which played in heavy rotation for […]
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What Do These Car Pictures Say To You?
If you really know your classic American cars, you’ll want to see if you can identify any of the cars in two photographs that appear in the blog on the Hemmings web site (link below). It’s not as easy as it sounds, because the pictures were taken in a Philadelphia […]
John Findra: The “Anti”-Restorer!- Custom Built Model Cars
Auto enthusiast John Findra doesn’t work on real cars. He’s a model builder, and much of his business comes from customers who’d like custom model replicas of their favorite old cars. But for fun, he builds classic car models and then “un-restores” them! “Underhauling”, as opposed to overhauling. John says […]
Customizing a Chevy Corvair Van Bumper to Fit Project PileHouse
PileHouse is starting to shape up and we can now envision what the truck will someday look like when it’s “done”. But I still felt that the front end needed “something more”. After staring at it over lunch one day, I decided that the truck needed a custom bumper to […]
Running Board Fabrication, A Front Bumper, and an Engine
In one of our last small updates we hinted at the running board project I had started on Project Pilehouse. Fast forward a little and we have just about completed the passenger side running board, complete with the outer skin we formed with the Eastwood Bead Roller, Electric Metal Cutting […]
How did it come to this? If the junkyard cars could talk.
I’ve been going to junkyards for years and years. In fact it is one of my favorite past times. There is nothing like the feeling of scoring THE part you needed for your project at the junkyard. It also feels good saving some of these parts from their demise in […]