Every year I’m still amazed at how many hidden “gems” there are in the show. You could walk rows and rows of products, models and through thousands of people, and suddenly you turn a corner and there is a beautiful car tucked in a booth. It’s almost like a treasure […]
Tag: Hot Rod
Now that it’s almost a classic, insure it!
You may not have spent a lot of money to get that old rust heap of a clunker in the first place, but once you finally turn it into a classic restoration masterpiece, you’ll definitely want to insure it properly. Problem is, adding it to your regular car insurance policy […]
Chopping The Top On A 1950 Dodge Pick-Up – Eastwood’s Project Pile House- Part 2
Time and money seem to always be the deciding factor in how long a project takes to complete. After preparing Pile House for a chop my time ran thin and it took longer for me to get to cutting the roof than I’d like; but I’m sure everyone can relate […]
John Findra: The “Anti”-Restorer!- Custom Built Model Cars
Auto enthusiast John Findra doesn’t work on real cars. He’s a model builder, and much of his business comes from customers who’d like custom model replicas of their favorite old cars. But for fun, he builds classic car models and then “un-restores” them! “Underhauling”, as opposed to overhauling. John says […]
The Eastwood Customer Parking Lot- Blast From The Past “Shadow Rod”
We often brag about how great our local automotive enthusiast scene really is, but we are really lucky to have our retail outlet here at the Eastwood headquarters so we get to see in-progress and finished vehicles rolling through the lot on a daily basis. The other day I wandered […]
Remembering 9/11 through Moving Art
11 years ago our country was devastated by the acts of terrorism that occurred on 9/11/01. By now many of us have begun to heal, but the memory of that day will always remain. Some great people over the years have done many different things to remember those who passed. […]
Did you celebrate “Friday the 13th”?
If you’re not too superstitious, and you’re an Eastwood customer, you probably celebrated Friday, July 13, 2012, as “Collector Car Appreciation Day”. That day was designated by the SEMA (Specialty Equipment Market Association) Action Network, and was celebrated throughout the month of July with events in 38 states, two Canadian […]
Disassembling A Chevy 350 Small Block V8 (SBC) With Eastwood Tools
We’re always elbow deep in projects here at Eastwood, and while tearing down an original 350 SBC (small block v8 Chevy engine) we decided to document the process. Since the engine had never been apart before, we decided it would be a great test for our Eastwood Air Tools and […]
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 […]