Painting a car is one of the most misunderstood parts of our hobby. It can be a daunting process to sand off the paint on your car, but it’s one of those jobs that things must get worse to get better.
Tag: Rust Repair
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.
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 […]
Stretching the truck bed of PileHouse
When we last mentioned how we were lengthening the bed of PileHouse we had just cut the bed apart and braced it to fabricate the new panels. This was not an easy task, but it was made much easier after the project had spawned some new prototype products. Many of […]
Pollock Auto Restoration- Vintage Automotive History in our backyard
Some of the best craftsmanship often times comes from the shops and builders that aren’t bragging at every cruise-in, swap meet, car show, and local bar. They are too busy cranking out quality pieces of automotive art and let their work speak for itself. This is exactly the way things […]
Eastwood Has a new Project – 1989 Mustang LX 5.0 Project Car
We regularly brag about the fact that we test, design, and dream up new products in-house here at Eastwood. Testing products requires a good rotation of test vehicles and we’ve had a number of wrecks we’ve used in the past. Recently the “powers-that-be” agreed that we should buy a new […]
The Top Tip to Make Seamless Sheet Metal Repairs
Replacing door skins, quarter panels, and other patch panels can take a lot of practice to get perfect. We have found that there are a few little tips to make a seamless repair much easier. My favorite is the use of a “backing strip” to connect the new and old […]
Lower Door Skin Restoration
We are currently working on restoring the lower inner and outer door skins on Pile House. Man; these things were bad! We will be doing a full video tech feature on it here shortly. We also will be featuring the process on our February catalog cover! Stay tuned! Here are […]
Somewhere to Lay the Cab
Now that we are back from SEMA, I’ve gotten a big kick in the butt to get some real progress done on Project Pile House. I saw a ton of cool rods out in Vegas, and it helped me gather some ideas and inspiration for this project. So this week […]