Today was extremely busy at the show, word has spread about our Popular Mechanics Editors Choice Award and they were all checking out the new products we have in the pipeline. Overall it seems like everyone was very impressed and we are excited to launch it all to the public […]
Tag: Hot Rod
Eastwood SEMA 2011 Show Day Three
Day Four at SEMA 2011 and man is this place packed! We really hope that the turnout at the show this year is a reflection of how on-the-rise the automotive market is, especially customs and restos. Today we had Kevin Tetz from Trucks! stop by and we let him have […]
Building Cab Mounts
After getting the cab mount brackets welded to the cab on Pile-House, we next had to decide what height the cab would sit at. After raising and lowering the cab and chassis to get an idea of what the optimum ride height would be, we found we had to make […]
Project Pile-House is getting lower!
Today we spent a little more time on project Pile-House. We got the cab and front fenders off of the blocks and sitting down on the chassis. This gives me an idea of about where the rolling ride height will be going down the road. From here we will fab […]
Test Fitting and Aligning Body Panels Part 2
Today we got some more time to work on centering the front wheels in the fenders and also getting some more body panels test fitted. It’s nice to see it starting to “look” like a truck again. Given everything is just sitting on blocks, but it’s nice to visualize. The […]
First Cab Mock-Up
With all of my other projects I have going on at once, I haven’t had much time to make progress on Project Pile-House. But, this past weekend I got a free Saturday morning and a set of extra hands to help, so we went to town on making some big […]
Eastwood Visits Source Interlink’s El Segundo office!
Last Thursday you may have read about our trip to the Irvine headquarters for Source Interlink, home of some of your favorite auto magazines. Well on Friday we visited their relatively new El Segundo office. We were lucky enough to get to show off some of our newest upcoming products […]
Eastwood visits Source Interlink in LA!
For anyone not familiar with Source Interlink, they publish some of the largest automotive magazines out there. I could bet you have read or bought a number of them before. Everything from Car Craft, Hot Rod, Street Rodder, Classic Trucks, Popular Hotrodding, to LowRider, Mini Truckin, Eurotuner, Import Tuner, etc. […]
How did it come to this? If the junkyard cars could talk.
I’ve been going to junkyards for years and years. In fact it is one of my favorite past times. There is nothing like the feeling of scoring THE part you needed for your project at the junkyard. It also feels good saving some of these parts from their demise in […]