Remember your high school car? Who doesn't? If you grew up in the '80s or '90s, you might have had a car just like this '72 Chevelle, or like most of us, you might have been driving total junk. We're older now and way out of school, but sometimes we wonder what our high-school beater could have been had we known more about cars. In the spirit of nostalgia, we are going to hammer this car into an awesome cruiser in one weekend. It's not going to be a high-dollar build. Instead, we are going to add only one swap-meet speed part and use the rattle can and some simple ideas to make the car cool. Then we are going to cruise it around and fix stuff when it falls off.. To join us, visit CarCraft.com/Chevelle on January 10, and watch the action live.
Read more: http://www.carcraft.com/index.html#ixzz1izNvMQ46
HOT ROD Goes Drifting With Vaughn Gittin Jr. 's RTR-X
Mike Finnegan takes a ride with Vaughn Gittin Jr. in two of his badass Mustang drift cars! One of them is the 1969 Mustang Fastback caled RTR-X, an all-new Dynacorn body powered by a Motec-injected Boss 302 Coyote.
GENERAL LEE VS THE BANDIT TRANS AM - BEST CAR CHASE EVER !!!
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Here it is...Two of the most famous cars of all time in a an all out car chase!
No matter which car is your favorite, everyone wins with this feature video shot in the Arkansas countryside with A REAL GENERAL LEE.
Crank up your speakers and enjoy!
Special thanks to Mark Osborne of Southern Coating & Nameplate, Inc. ( http://www.southerncoating.com/contact.html ) for letting us beat the crud out of his cars and his wife for making us some of the best Southern fried chicken we've ever had!
Look for this story on the cover of the November 2011 issue of Hot Rod Magazine...buy two or three copies, seriously it's that good!
Video Shot and Edited by Jason Lewis (autoedit@sbcglobal.net)
HOT ROD/Car Craft Magazine 9/11 Cruise and Cacklefest
HOT ROD and Car Craft magazines host a cruise at the Automobile Driving Museum in El Segundo, California, on the last Friday of every month (schedule changes during holidays). At this special one, John Ewald brought two vintage Top Fuel dragsters to fire up on nitro for a little cacklefest.
RatRodTV Episode 11. View at ratrodtv.com
Special Television Event. Steve Darnell's 31 Ford Bio-Diesel build form start to finish. Steve, Deeter, Danny, Aaron and Justin tackle the project and complete the build in two weeks!
Fire, leaks and weak steel, it's all here. Enjoy
The Restoration of my 1972 Chevelle
From start to finish to drive!!!!! It was my first car, paid $300 for it in 1992, invested $42,000 and it was finished in 1996! I still have it today!!
Release The Draguar! Building a Blown Jaguar Rat Rod - Roadkill Episode 7
On this episode of Roadkill, Freiburger and Finnegan do unspeakable things to a '74 Jaguar XJ12, one of about 4,700 made. Namely, they cut a giant hole in the hood and install a Weiand 6-71 Supercharger and twin Holley carburetors on the 350ci Chevy V8 that was already installed in the car when it was purchased for $1,000. But things can never be easy, so the Supercharger installation is staged in the parking lot of Gotelli Speed Shop in South San Francisco. Then the duo hits the road, making their way to Sacramento Raceway, where they can finally unleash "The Draguar" at the strip.
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'66 Buick Back From The Dead! - HOT ROD Unlimited Episode 5
On this episode of HOT ROD Unlimited, we raise a '66 Buick from the dead. After spending 33 years sitting outside in the desert, the broken down Buick Special is revived by David Freiburger and Mike Finnegan of HOT ROD and Rick Pewe of 4-Wheel & Off-Road magazine.
Rick's mother bought the car when it was near new and parked it when the transmission failed in 1978. In 2011, the guys spent two and a half days wrenching on the car, with the hopes of driving it home from Phoenix to Los Angeles. Come along for the ride and see what happens!
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Extreme Elco Engine Swap! - Roadkill Episode 4
On this episode of Roadkill, David Freiburger, Mike Finnegan and a carsick dog drive a '69 El Camino 500 miles from home (on seven cylinders) to change an engine in the parking lot of Summit Racing.
The story goes that Finnegan's wife's grandfather bought this1969 Chevy El
Camino brand new, and it's been passed down through the family, finally to
her. It's a solid car, and the suspension has been hopped up, but the
all-original 350 engine was smoking like a freight train. That didn't stop
the guys from limping it from Los Angeles, California to Sparks, Nevada,
where Summit Racing has a fully-stocked warehouse.
Summit sells every speed part and replacement part on Earth, including the 420hp, 383ci crate engine, so the logic was that the guys would save time on the engine swap because they could walk right into the store instead of driving to a parts store multiple times, as they would have back home.
So how long will it take a couple gearheads to change an engine outside in a snow flurry? Will the EPA shut them down before they can finish? And what happens when you let a carsick dog ride shotgun? Watch to find out!
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How-To Tear Down a Chevy 350 V8 Small Block Engine
Chris Duke from Motorz TV http://www.motorz.tv shows you how to tear down a junk yard small block Chevy 350 engine to prepare it for rebuild.
Show notes: http://www.motorz.tv/small-block-teardown/
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Watch the complete Chevy 350 engine rebuild series:
1. Tear Down: http://youtu.be/LZO1fWVxN4c
2. Machine Shop: http://youtu.be/e3r3wRBoXkk
3. Bottom End: http://youtu.be/gfrYWKi78zc
4. Top End: http://youtu.be/g46s-Vr4Br0
5. Finale: http://youtu.be/mvJNMN-oP68
Hot Rod Time Machine: Old vs New
Just How Good Were the Good Ol' Days? To find out, we've gathered three modern high-spec ponycars and matched them with their glory days ancestors. We're pitting a 2011 Camaro SS against the '69 Camaro SS396 that inspired its design; a 2011 Challenger SRT8 meets the '70 Challenger it so faithfully resembles; and a freshly minted Shelby Mustang GT500 convertible meets its '69 forebear.
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Shot by: Jim Gleason and Gordon Green
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1973 Chevrolet Chevelle: Bank Robber's Special -- BIG MUSCLE
For its season finale BIG MUSCLE heads to the mean streets of Trenton, NJ to meet up with Sean Rich and his road warrior style 1973 Chevrolet Chevelle. This particular car was constructed with the idea that if one needed a getaway vehicle for which to rob a bank in, well then... this would be the perfect candidate. This is not some big dollar, no holds barred super car, but a ride built by its owner for the purpose of putting a smile on his face every time the key was turned.
Lowriders Vs Hot Rods - The Downshift Episode 8
On this episode of The Downshift, come walk the aisles of the 2012 Western Grand Nationals with HOT ROD's David Freiburger and Lowrider legend Joe Ray, as they discuss the hottest trends in retro, hot rods, lowriders, rat rods, rockabillies, street rodders, greaser customizers and more.
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