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What's the best tall tale story you've heard at a car show, at the watering hole, etc about how fast/awesome/rare/expensive thier car/engine is? Example: This here is a rare 260 out of a 64 Cobra with racing history. I found it down in Mexico being used to stir paint in a paint factory. I...

Used to seal up bare metal like aluminum, copper, etc and keep it from corroding and discoloring. I used it on my aluminum speedster this weekend - really cool stuff. You wipe it on with a cloth diaper and it dries in about a minute leaving a clear coating, kinda like a satin clear. Its not...

I've read that you can put a flat clear over a regular glossy paint job and it will flatten it (not sure if true). Is the opposite true? Can take a car painted with a satin clear, scuff and shoot glossy clear to make the paint glossy? Looking at a car that has very nice satin black paint, but...

It's already 100+ every day here, so a little dash fan simply won't do. I grabbed a 12 elec fan from Pep Boys and put it on a wood base. Throws a ton of air at you and really helps. Of course its loud, but so is the car...

I haven't worked on this speedster in awhile but now it's time to finish it up. It really needs a split V windshield, like a Duval type. The body is my design, so there isn't an off-the-shelf frame that will fit it. Any ideas of what to use? I was thinking small C channel, maybe 1/4"...

Another new show that was on for the first time this week, I think on Velocity. Looks pretty cool, at least the first show was. Watch the first season before they run out of material and start staging "barn finds"!

Talk about off topic! I bought a used 2005 F150 and the A/C recirculate function doesn't seem to work. A/c is cooling but when you press the recirc button, nothing happens. I just want to find where the actuator is and replace or just manually rig recirculation door in the recirc mode, as...

Has anyone ever tried lollipop baffles in thier zoomies? I know bikers put them in thier drag pipes to cut down the noise and increase back pressure. I have conventional motorcycle baffles in my zoomies but its still too dang loud and gives me an earache at low rpms, cruising around town...

Not sure what is wrong with me, but I can't stop putting motors on perfectly good bicycles. Here's one I had built a couple years ago, but got frustrated with my crude belt drive system, so I took it apart and put it away. Pulled it out last week and decided to convert it to chain drive...

I have a bad lifter in my Ford 200 6 banger in the speedster. It collapses after the engine gets warm and ticks like crazy. I've never had to this before - are there any tips? Do you need to soak the lifters in oil before installing? Need any special tools, like a magnet to get them out...

Took the '30 out this afternoon and all of a sudden started running terribly. Misfiring randomly on all cylinders. Engine is a stock Ford 351 with a brand new Summit Racing HEI and brand new Edlebrock 600 Performer. Less than 20 miles on each. It happened all of a sudden so makes me thing...

Got the frame & body painted and I like it, but it's pretty plain. Once I paint the wheels and get the center caps on it will help...but what to do about the body? Wheels and some interior pieces will be gold. So I'm thinking some black & gold pinstripes? I'd like to paint the beltline gold...

Arrgg, I hate painting! Ok, so on to my question: My model A body has some kind of grey sandable filler primer on it. Not sure what kind but was told it was a decent 2 part type. I've also used some Duplicolor filler primer on my bondo work in places. I have some single-stage urethane PPG...

I picked up some PPG Shopline "direct gloss" single-stage paint yesterday. I'm going with a flat white. The paint chick said she couldn't tell me how much flattener to use b/c she had never done a flat white. If it was flat black, she could tell me. I do not comprehend why the color matters...

Looking for ideas for something to seperate the chassis from the body on my model A project. As it is, the body sits direcly on the chassis and would squeak as they flexed. Speedway sells a roll of rubber tape for this purpose, but it's $50 a roll. Has to be something cheaper that I'm not...

I've sort of been hiding this build, not sure why. Partly too lazy to take pics, but partly b/c it's basically the opposite of the current arse-in-the-dirt and chopped to death look of most rods these days, so not sure how many will be interested. Much more of a 60s style. Here's where I'm...

I'm struggling with what to paint my latest Model A sedan project (build thread coming at some point). It's currently primer gray, which I hate. It needs plenty of hours of detailed body work to get it good enough to paint, but in the meantime, I need to change the color and seal it from...

So I dropped by the Advance Auto to get some carb cleaner, other odds & ends. There are 3 people working and 3 customers in the store. Of course 1 guy is in the back tapping on the computer who refuses to help anyone in front. Customer 1 after 101 questions decides to get a battery...and of...

I'm always amazed at the mess I can make in the garage on a day off. This 351 is going into my latest project. Build thread on that coming soon. Another rusty '77 Cougar is off to the great scrap heap in the sky!

I have a nice (i hope) boxed perimeter frame on the way and need to figure out what kind of rear suspension to use this time. I'm going for an old school hi-boy look this time with no rear Z. Kinda like the attached pic but not quite that high in the air. Since the car will be high, the rear...