“My father in law had owned this 1932 Ford five window street rod for the past 40 something years.About 10 years ago he started the process of doing a frame off restoration to this car when his wife was diagnosed with cancer. He put the street rod project aside and […]
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Mike U., Eastwood Tech Advisor- What Makes Us Tick
Do you have any projects going right now? What are you building, restoring, or a job you are tackling next? my 32 Ford High boy. It’s currently in Eastwood Gray Urethane Primer that I sprayed with the Eastwood Concours Paint Gun and the interior is covered in Eastwood Thermo-coustic.
SEMA 2012- Eastwood Company Part 3 Coverage
Traditionally a lot of show cars, especially SEMA cars were known to be mostly all “show” and not a car you could drive on the street or the track. Many people even joke that these cars never see the road and are even pushed on and off the trailer (some […]
SEMA 2012- Eastwood Company Part 1 Coverage
Today is the first official day of the 2012 SEMA Show and we are as excited as ever. Walking through the first few rows of the hottest cars, trucks and bikes tell us that the automotive hobby is as strong as ever. We spent day one walking around spotting out […]
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 […]
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 […]
2012 Street Rodder 40 Ford Road Tour Car Debuted
The last time we checked in on the Street Rodder 40 Ford build, the crew at Hollywood Hot Rods was putting the final touches on the car and tuning the engine. Recently Street Rodder debuted the car at the Hollywood Hot Rods headquarters in Burbank, CA. They kept the guests […]
Street Rodder Road Tour 1940 Ford Nearing Completion- reassembling a 1940 Ford
The last time we checked in with Street Rodder and Hollywood Hot Rods the paint on the body was still wet. Since then they’ve been busy getting the car ready for the first leg of the Street Rodder Road Tour and it’s unveiling this weekend. We got these sneak peeks […]