For many years the community park in Macungie, PA has been the home of some of the larger classic car events in the Mid-Atlantic. One of our favorites is the Wheels of Time Street Rod show. This event brings in hundreds and hundreds of classic cars. Don’t let the term […]
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Skip The Search And Get A Head Start On Your 1940 Ford Coupe Resto Project!
The 1940 Ford Coupe has always been a popular car for restoration projects, ever since World War II veterans began turning them into hot rods by adding performance equipment to the car’s flathead V8 engine. But you no longer have to poke around in junkyards or barns looking for an […]
Bay One Customs Cameo SEMA Truck Build Candy Paint Job Sneak Peak
T.C. and crew have been very busy working on their Project Cameo Truck build for SEMA 2013 this year. We recently shared some DIY videos that TC put together with tips for spraying and clearing a candy paint job (view them here) on the center console for the truck and […]
Early Summer Project Pile House Update.
With the floor pans made up I decided to move outwards and tackle the rust in the door openings. The truck door sill on the drivers side was rotted away and the front of the door opening/jamb was rotted pretty bad. In fact the lower portion was almost non existent.
Bay One Customs Builds a 1958 Chevrolet Cameo Concept Truck for SEMA 2013
TC Penick and Bay One Customs are names you may start hearing more of very soon. We first introduced you to TC during our Interview and Feature of Kevin Tetz and his “Jaded” Mustang . TC and Bay One were the driving forces behind helping Kevin finish the car for […]
Street Rodder Road Tour 51 Ford Custom- More Metal Work, Filler, and sanding.. lots of it!
The crew at Honesty Charley and Street Rodder Magazine have been doing a great job of keeping the 2013 Road Tour car under wraps. We’ve been bugging them for a while for some teasers and they finally shot us a few photos to keep us enticed. As we mentioned in […]
We have a Brake Pedal and The Firewall Becomes Three Dimensional
In the last update I was working on cutting out metal to make the firewall and mocking up my new brake pedal setup from Speedway. Since then I’ve been pretty busy making something from nothing. I had to initially tackle how I was going to mount the brake booster and […]
Forming The Firewall and Gathering Steering and Braking Parts
After getting the old swiss cheese firewall removed from the truck I started making the new firewall for Project Pile House. I started by having one of our tech advisors Sean help me make a cardboard pattern. Once the pattern was made we scribed out the shape onto our metal […]
Hollywood Hot Rods- How To Chop a Mercury with help from Eastwood
By Jim Aust/Hollywood Hot Rods Every since the first sleek new 1949 Mercury hit the street crafty restylers have lusted after examples with the roof a bit lower than the factory offerings. Sam Barris was among the first to chop his own personal Mercury, and the process would be repeated […]