Classic Car Tips & Techniques
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1:49No-Drip Brake Bleeder
Early cars used mechanical means of activating the car’s brakes, whether the brakes were cable operated or metal rods and levers. These systems proved very effective when properly adjusted. But there were limitations to these early systems and they notoriously required a fair amount of effort to stop a car. All of that changed when…
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0:59No-Cost Axle Puller
You can never have enough tools, but if you’ve been restoring cars long enough you have most of what you need. But for those starting out or building cars on a limited budget the key to building cars is to make the most of what you do have. This same scenario applies when you are…
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4:32Getting Started with Body Restoration
No one is born with the skills to restore a Classic Car, but rather they are gained over trial and time. But there’s no argument we all started in the same place. Mark Simpson discusses with Terry Wright what it takes to get started in the hobby and be successful at it. It begins with…
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4:521956 Ford F100 Built in Memory “For Dad”
Sentiment. It can be a good reason and sometimes a bad reason for restoring a classic car, and over the years I’ve seen countless examples of both. The bad is when a loved one passes away before their dream car project has been completed, but the project requires intensive amounts of work to complete yet…
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8:17Father/Son Classic Car Projects
Every classic car enthusiast has a story of their connection to the hobby, and for many, the story begins at home assisting their father or an older sibling making car repairs or modifications. There is no shortage of father/mother and son/daughter duos at many classic car events, and in large part, these traditions are what…
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7:451941 Ford Convertible Custom Street Rod
What is a street rod? There are many opinions as to what a street rod really is, and there are those that draw hard lines between street rods, hot rods, and customs—but why get bogged down in the semantics? For many years, die-hard street rodders considered any modified car that had removable front and rear…
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4:01Grampa’s 1929 Model A Hot Rod
Since the birth of the automobile in the late 1800s, car owners have sought to make cars go faster. This led to stripping away any unwanted weight including fenders, running boards, seats, etc. and increasing the engines performance. This quest for speed gave birth to what we know today as the Hot Rod. Fords were…
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7:05MHRA Rod Shop – Car Repair
The Michigan Hot Rod Association is an alliance of seven car clubs; one of their missions is to help fellow car enthusiasts get running again when the unthinkable happens and their car breaks down while attending an event they are at. This volunteer group of dedicated car guys have been helping get rides on the…
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4:15Back to the 50s Car Show
For nearly as long as there have been cars, there have been car shows. Many of the earliest car shows were held so manufacturers could debut their latest models to the public. But as the love affair between the public and their automobiles grew, so did the desire for owners to personalize their cars to…
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