Laying paint is a pretty simple idea when you think about it. You spray your desired color over something and let it dry and live happily ever after right? Well that may be true if you’re painting a dog house, mailbox, or fencepost! It takes a little more than that […]
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Perfectly Powder Coated Wheels- 10 Tips to Make Your Wheels Look Great
It’s a known fact that a set of wheels can make or break a car. We’ve seen some of the biggest “junkers” become legendary with a nice set of wheels and a ride height adjustment. The opposite can happen when you have a nicely restored vehicle that has dirty, beat-up, […]
Make it Fit- Building and Modifying a Custom Aluminum Radiator With the TIG 200
In the world of building modified cars, you have to be willing to think outside the box to make different parts jive when building a car. Whether it’s notching the frame to lower a vehicle, rolling the fenders to fit oversized wheels/tires, or fitting an upgraded radiator to cool that […]
Drop the ratchet, grab a brewski and enjoy the show!- Overhaulin’ TV Show Returns
Uh oh…now I’ll have less time to work on cars, because I’ll be watching OVERHAULIN’ instead! Maybe you heard that all-new editions of the Velocity network’s definitive car restoration series will be returning October 2, with design expert Chip Foose again hosting the show. If you’re a resto nut (why […]
Pull Dents and Saving Money- Eastwood MIG Stud Welding Kit
Since the beginning of automotive time, fixing body damage and pulling dents has been a necessary task. Unless you’re one of the lucky few that scored a pristine barn-find, your going to have to pull some dents and repair some battle scars on your project vehicle. Sure you could just […]
Chopping the top on a 1950 Dodge Pick-up – Eastwood’s Project Pile House- Part 1
One of the next big projects planned for Project Pile House is performing a mild chop and smooth job on the cab and roof. We started the process in a previous post where we showed you How to Shave and Smooth Unneeded Holes in the bed and cab. Today we […]
How to Make a Custom Running Board From Scratch- Project Pilehouse Edition
In one of our last posts we gave you some sneak peaks of the custom running board project we’ve been working on for Project Pilehouse. During the process we documented the full build and shared some of our secrets to help you build a similar project yourself for cheap. After […]
Customizing a Chevy Corvair Van Bumper to Fit Project PileHouse
PileHouse is starting to shape up and we can now envision what the truck will someday look like when it’s “done”. But I still felt that the front end needed “something more”. After staring at it over lunch one day, I decided that the truck needed a custom bumper to […]
Jaded- The Story of Kevin Tetz’s ’66 Mustang Project
Jaded…… yes I am, and so is the name of my car. It’s a 1966 Mustang Coupe 6 cylinder, three speed trans, 4 lug turd that was rescued from the tin-worms to be the mule for many technical articles for car magazines over the years since 2003.