classic car repair tips
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7:51LED Upgrade for Mustang Headlights
There’s little doubt about the benefits of LEDs for brighter and more dependable lighting, and thankfully this technology has found its way into the classic car market. While taillights and marker lights were the first to make the conversion to LEDs, these days nearly every bulb on most cars is replaceable with LEDs. Headlights were…
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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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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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5:58United Pacific LED Mirrors and Light Bezels
We’ve long been a big fan of United Pacific’s great line of LED lighting solutions, from intensely bright LED headlights to trick sequential tail lights, but did you know they also offer classic car trim and body panels too. When our good friend Shawn mentioned he wanted to add some of their state-of-the-art LED side…
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17:59Cleaning Fuel System: Bringing a Car Out of Long-Term Storage
Oftentimes when a classic car is put into storage, it isn’t done so properly. Rather than prepare the car to sit unused, it simply stopped being driven by the owner. This usually means the battery is still in place, the fluids are dirty and the fuel tank is partially full. To bring any car out…
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17:23Battery Care: Bringing a Car Out of Long-Term Storage
Improperly preparing your car for storage can lead to problems when taking it out after sitting unused for an extended period of time. Problems with batteries are common, as most classic cars came originally equipped with flooded lead-acid batteries that continue to “out gas” even while stored. These acid vapors can deteriorate lead terminals, weaken…
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3:20Water Pump Packing: Bringing a Car Out of Long-Term Storage
We’ve all come to expect that various components on our classic cars require routine maintenance, but on early classic cars the maintenance schedule includes several items we’ve come to take for granted on more modern classics. One item that requires more care on older classics is the water pump. These early water pumps worked well…
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7:33Ford and Mustang Roundup Part 2
Dennis Gage continues his quest to check out nearly 1,000 cars attending the All Ford and Mustang Roundup Show in Silver Springs, Florida. Tom Tate’s 1975 Ford Mustang II 2+2 stood out from the crowd and Gage needed to examine it just a little more. Originally this great little car was owned by a street…
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17:25Dash Wiring and Circuit Boards
Many car enthusiasts don’t give their wiring or electrical system a second thought, that is until it fails. On the other hand nothing makes a classic car owners heart sink faster than having their car dead on the side of the road. Mark Simpson joins Bob Wilson of RJ Restorations as they dig in and…
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