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1. MGB with a Mk1 Supra Drivetrain

Sunday, 28 February 2016 Content / engineswapdepot.com / MGB with a Mk1 Supra Drivetrain

MGB with a Mk1 Supra Drivetrain | Lorne Fritz is an accomplished mechanic, business owner, and racer. He has owned and operated a British sports car restoration shop called Sports Car Haven in Danville, Pennsylvania for over 40 years. He also ...
... the car sat for several years until Lorne found the perfect recipient. That opportunity appeared when Lorne found a MGB that was going to be scrapped because it was not feasible to restore. After the body was stripped and sand blasted Lorne ...

2. east coast attacks

Saturday, 28 November 2015 Content / lowtechblog.blogspot.com / east coast attacks

... this was the only way he could get his favorite year Ford, so he had to bite the bullet. In order to prevent the body from falling apart while getting sandblasted, he built an inner structure. When he got it back from the blaster, Jason started ...
east coast attacks | Since the early days of hot rodding, the media have played an important role in spreading the gospel of hopped-up jalopies and turning a pretty much local phenomenon into a nationwide movement. Every month and all over the ...

3. east coast style

Saturday, 28 November 2015 Content / lowtechblog.blogspot.com / east coast style

... this was the only way he could get his favorite year Ford, so he had to bite the bullet. In order to prevent the body from falling apart while getting sandblasted, he built an inner structure. When he got it back from the blaster, Jason started ...
east coast style | Since the early days of hot rodding, the media have played an important role in spreading the gospel of hopped-up jalopies and turning a pretty much local phenomenon into a nationwide movement. Every month and all over the ...

4. beast from the east

Monday, 22 September 2014 Content / lowtechblog.blogspot.com / beast from the east

... year Ford. When he got the '34 body back from the blaster, Jason started reconstructing the missing sheet metal from the bottom up. There was no floor anymore so he decided to channel the body over the frame. The roof was left unchopped in true ...
beast from the east | It's not just that I have a soft spot for 1980s hard rock album titles. But this car truly is an East Coast build, even though it now resides in Southern California and is owned by Matt Kimmel and his buddy Isaac Bowser. ...

5. Sound-Check, radical14 (5)-1555

Monday, 15 September 2014 Content / radical-mag.com / Sound-Check, radical14 (5)-1555

Sound-Check, radical14 (5)-1555 | radical14 (5)Noch nicht erstelltZur Einstimmung empfehlen wir einen Text, den wir kürzlich auf der sehr geschätzten «PS-Welt» veröffentlichen durften. Lesen Sie: hier. Sehen Sie den folgenden Text als Fortsetzung, ...

6. don montgomery

Tuesday, 10 September 2013 Content / lowtechblog.blogspot.com / don montgomery

... get an awful lot of that… I had a blast doing these books. During all those years, I met so many people and I made a lot of correspondence all over the world… particularly with people from Australia, England, Sweden, and also a few from places ...
... September 2013 that I got the chance to visit Don Montgomery at his house in Fallbrook, California. Don, did you take many pictures back in the day? »No, I didn’t take a lot of pictures. In the late 1940s and the early 1950s, hardly ...

7. Ferrari F40 LM Restoration

Tuesday, 06 August 2013 Content / build-threads.com / Ferrari F40 LM Restoration

... bottom of the destruction phase. Here she is, down to basics, shortly to be masked up and off to the sand blasters who will strip off all the old chassis paint so we can get back to bare metal, prime and recoat in the correct Michelotto silver. ...
... it accordingly. So, we have stripped her down to almost a bare shell, and the aim is to upgrade all areas to full spec whilst leaving the engine as it raced, and we are lucky in that Michelotto has agreed to supply us with parts, specifically ...

8. Project 510: FMIC + more (pt 4)

Wednesday, 20 March 2013 Content / build-threads.com / Project 510: FMIC + more (pt 4)

... form of black paint was the fuel rail. I painted this in a metalic grey colour called ‘cast alloy’. Satin black was the colour choice for the throttle body. Throttle body pieces all cleaned up, including the butterfly. You can ...
... attached my old flexible hoses to the thermostat housing and the lower engine outlet and then blasted water through the cooling system, to flush out all the old nasty stuff that was sitting in there and any dust that might have made it’s ...

9. jack's 1932 coupe

Monday, 21 November 2011 Content / lowtechblog.blogspot.com / jack's 1932 coupe

... The car already looks fast just sitting there, but the image of seeing it blasting down the highway alongside of our rental burnt deep into our minds. Good times!Original: LOWTECH :: traditional hot rods and customs | 2011-11 | Marc Wöltinger ...
jack's 1932 coupe | Baby it's cold outside. Let me dig through the boxes of photos from last summer and see what I can find. Wow, this looks nice. A hot rod in the warm southern california sun. The car obviously is a 1932 coupe with a flathead ...

10. DIY/How-To: Wrinkle texture paint

Wednesday, 10 August 2011 Content / build-threads.com / DIY/How-To: Wrinkle texture paint

... than others, this has happened to me in the past and resulted in me blasting the item with heat out of pure frustration (this approach does not work!). After the third coat has had some time to dry, you can see the texture starting to form. ...
DIY/How-To: Wrinkle texture paint | Wrinkle finish, texture finish, wrinkle coat, hammer finish, crinkle finish, whatever you want to call it, it’s a fickle creature. Desired by many, but frustrating to get it right. Personally I’ve ...