Selecting the best aftermarket steering wheel for your car’s interior design. Story: Jim McGowan, Photos Courtesy GT Performance The two most “in your face” parts of your classic vehicle are the instrument cluster and even closer to you, your steering…
Cuffing Bars
Protecting our bars with Bar Cuffs Story/Photos: T-Bone I seem to always find something new at the swap meet. And today was no different. I met Adam Ewles who invented Bar Cuffs. A simple table and banner grabbed my attention…
Ride Along the Mother Road
Have you made the trip? Photos provided by Bob Walton and Sal Santoro, Story/Book Review by T-Bone In the Fall of 1994 I took the train from Southern California to Albany NY. The job was to ride with Billy in…
Our Shop Truck Breathes Better
Installing an AEM Brute Force Air Induction System. Pics/Story: T-Bone Check out the video at BlacktopTV! This is the first in a series of articles to come this year where we update our shop truck into The Blacktop Bruiser. First…
Three Generation Build
This is one of those incredible stories that we love to share. Story: T-Bone, Build Photos: Sapers Family, Finish Photos: T-Bone It all started early one Saturday morning at Donut Derelicts. Right in front of the donut shop was a…
Futurliner #3 Progress
Rust in Peace?? Kindig-It Design says No!! Photos and Story provided by Kindig-it Design In 1939, the GM Parade of Progress consisted of 12 first generation Futurliners, 8 Streamliners, 24 trucks, 19 passenger car units, 2 Army trucks (for the…
The Hand-Psycho Project
The Latest from Shocker Choppers Garage Photos/Story by T-Bone It all started when Billy said: “Hey Pop’s I want to build something that will help me work out my arms and shoulders. What do you think of this?” as he…
Larry Wood’s Garage Tour
A Peak Inside Famed Hot Wheels Designer, Larry Wood’s Garage Photos/Story: T-Bone Merciful So Cal member and cool pinstriper Stubby set up a tour for us at Elwood’s Garage in Long Beach. It was a great sunny Sunday morning in…
The Whee-Tee Project
From the Crew at Con2R The project started when one of my crew came into the office towing a very cool Radio Flyer wagon that had been dropped and set up with a straight axle up front. As we…
Bart Shoots the Grand National Roadster Show for Blacktop!
Photos by Bart Alan Mitchell
American Powertrain’s Hydraulic Clutch
Whether you are installing a traditional 4-Speed or a modern 5 or 6-Speed, getting the clutch working is always a big step. Now you can skip the clunky old mechanical linkage and install a Hydramax hydraulic clutch system from American…
David Mann Chopperfest 2012
Old and New Share the Grass Photos/Story by T-Bone A bunch of baggers. That’s what we noticed at this year’s David Mann Chopperfest. Certainly there were some cool chops and bobs, but we noticed a bunch more twinkie bags this…
GM’s Futurliner #3 Comes to Kindig-it Design for Restoration
This story is the beginning of a new series sent to us by Sherri Candland from Kindig-It Designs in Salt Lake City. Kindig-It has been awarded the restoration of GM’s Futurliner #3 and we will follow the progress with Sherri’s…
Vehicle Graphics
Story/Photo: T-Bone I know a lot of you are like us and have a shop truck to get parts or use as your daily driver. You can personalize your vehicle with your company name or any other graphic you design,…
Tite-Reach Extension Wrench
A Shocker Choppers Garage Product Test Feature While at the SEMA Show we had to pick up this tool for the Shocker Choppers Garage. Tite-Reach is a chain driven 1:1 ratio socket extension. They offer two different offerings, a professional…