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Different Types Of Fuel Lines And When To Use Them
Fuel Lines 101 Our big V8 engines love to use up some fossil fuel. Getting that fire juice from the tank to the engine needs

What You Need To Know About Engine Swaps
Engine Swapping Your Classic Car Swapping the engine in your classic isn’t a new idea. People have been engine swapping since these cars were new!

How To Adjust Your Hurst Shifter Linkage
Adjusting Your Hurst Shifter Aftermarket parts such as Headers, Cragars, and Sun-Tach were all highly popular and sought after in the ’60s and ’70s. Another

How To Pick A Performance Exhaust
Picking A Performance Exhaust Picking out a performance exhaust system can be, well, exhausting. There are almost endless options and how do you choose? Do

The History Of Louis Chevrolet
Louis Chevrolet and How Chevrolet Motors Started Chevrolet is a household name all over the world. Automotive manufacture that has been making cars for well

How To Prevent Rust
Rust, Rust, Go Away…How To Prevent Rust In the classic car world, rust is a dirty four letter word. Rust has caused endless amounts of

Choosing The Best Radiator For Your Car!
What’s The Best Radiator? Brass, Aluminum, or Copper? Top flow or side flow? Single, Dual, or Triple pass? If you’re confused with all the options

Perks Of A Performance Exhaust!
Four Reasons To Upgrade Your Exhaust One of the best things about a classic car is its performance exhaust system. We all love the horsepower

Modern Upgrades For Classic Cars
Upgrading Your Classic Car With Modern Touches There’s nothing like driving a classic car. You can feel the vibration of the engine, hear the exhaust

Top Five Reasons To Buy A Classic Car Before 2030
Buy A Classic Now – While You Can! Here are Five Reasons Why: There’s no time like the present for a classic car right? You’d

How To Bleed LS Cooling Systems
Bleeding An LS Cooling System The Right Way You’ve been working hard on LS swapping your classic and you’re getting so close to firing up

1985 Buick Parts and Restoration Information
1985 Buick VINS, Production Numbers, Fact and Figures Trying to decode your 1985 Buick VIN to find out where it was made, or exactly what

1984 Buick Parts and Restoration Information
1984 Buick VINS, Production Numbers, Fact and Figures Trying to decode your 1984 Buick VIN to find out where it was made, or exactly what

What Does SS Mean In Cars?
What SS or Super Sport Really Means SS, or Super Sport is synonymous with performance. However, SS didn’t always mean that. Let’s take a look

How To Install Drum Brakes
Installing Drum Brakes Is it time to rebuild your drum brakes? If you’re building your classic on a budget, or want it exactly as it

1983 Buick Parts and Restoration Information
1983 Buick VINS, Production Numbers, Fact and Figures Trying to decode your 1983 Buick VIN to find out where it was made, or exactly what

A-BODY SUSPENSION BROKEN DOWN AND EXPLAINED
UMI Performance: A-body Applications In the realm of Pro Touring, a single chassis reigns supreme. The heavy hitting F-bodies dominate the aftermarket with a massive

Why Do 1969-1972 Nova’s Have Offset Motor Mounts?
Offset Motor Mounts On 1969-1972 Nova’s and 1969 Camaro’s With the right motor mounts, installing a Small-Block, Big-Block, or even an LS engine into your

Easily Remove Your Steering Wheel!
How To Remove Your Steering Wheel and Horn Removing your steering wheel is going to happen during the restoration of your ride. You might be

How To Roll Your Fenders
How To Roll Your Fenders There are a few different ways to roll your fenders to create more space. We all know that wider tires

How To Install A Torque Converter
How To Install A Torque Converter In Your Ride Installing a torque converter is a fairly straightforward job. The tricky part is that you have

A and G Body Differences From 1969-1988
Differences Between General Motors A and G Body What are the differences between the GM A and G body platforms? For most people, the GM

Obsolete Car Companies and What Killed Them
Car Companies That Are Obsolete And What Caused It Since the inception of cars as we know them, there have been quite a few obsolete

Dixco Hood Tachometers
The History of Dixco Hood Tachometers One of the absolutely coolest accessories you could have back in the 60s and 70s was a hood tachometer.

The Supermatic 6L80E Transmission
The Supermatic 6L80E Transmission In 2006 General Motors released their newest automatic transmission, the six-speed automatic that represented the latest and greatest. It was only

Secrets Of The El Camino: Revealed!
Things You Didn’t Know About The El Camino! The El Camino is a true American icon. Even though they shared platforms with their A-Body and

Adding A Console In Your Classic Chevy
Adding A Console To Your Ride Adding a console to your classic Chevelle, Camaro or Nova is not a hard process with the right pieces

How To Adjust Your Clutch Linkage
Clutch Adjustment Made Easy Engaging and disengaging the clutch is as simple as pushing in the pedal – if everything is working properly. In order

Banning Internal Combustion Engines?
Gasoline Engines Banned In 2035 Governor Gavin Newsom of California announced that all new passenger vehicles to be zero-emission by 2035. This would effectively ban

The Good Ol’ Days: How People Ordered Parts
The Good Ol’ Days With a click of a button from your phone, you can have your car parts delivered tomorrow – or even the

How Electronic and Points Ignition Works
Charging Up Your Ignition With Electronic Ignition One of the best upgrades you can do to your classic is to switch from points to electronic

Brake Pad Compounds: Putting A Stop To It
Good, Better, Best: Which Brake Pad Do You Need? Anytime you walk into your local auto parts store for a set of brake pads, you

Holley: A Complete History
History of Holley Holley, the massive powerhouse it is, wasn’t always that way. Today Holley is an international company that owns around 70 different brands/companies

Why Do LS Engines Have Steam Tubes?
Why LS Engines Have Steam Tubes And Why You Need Them! Why do LS engines have steam tubes, do you need them, and do you

Small Block Chevy Identification Guide
Identifying Small Block Chevy Engines The Small Block Chevrolet engine is one of, if not the most successful engines of all times. Released in the

History Of The TH400 Transmission
TH400 History, Facts, and Figures The Turbo 400 Transmission, or TH400 Transmission debuted in General Motors cars in 1964. The first year it was used

1982 Buick Parts and Restoration Information
1982 Buick VINS, Production Numbers, Fact and Figures Trying to decode your 1982 Buick VIN to find out where it was made, or exactly what

1981 Buick Parts and Restoration Information
1981 Buick VINS, Production Numbers, Fact and Figures Trying to decode your 1981 Buick VIN to find out where it was made, or exactly what

1980 Buick Parts and Restoration Information
1980 Buick VINS, Production Numbers, Fact and Figures The 1980 Buicks started off the decade with style! Read all about the different Buicks that were

1979 Buick Parts and Restoration Information
1979 Buick VINS, Production Numbers, Facts and Figures 1979 Buick VIN Breakdown Vehicle Identification Number – VIN The Buick VIN number for 1979 had 13
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1964-72 Chevelle & El Camino and 1970-1972 Monte Carlo
1967-1969 Camaro
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- VHX Instrument Installation – 1967 and 1968 Camaro systems
- VHX Instrument Installation – 1969 Camaro systems
- VHX Instrument Installation – 1970-1981 Camaro
- VFD3 Gauge Kit (Vacuum Fluorescent Digital Dashboard) Installation and Operation Manual
- PAC-1300A – Retained Accessory With Dome And Headlight Control
- GSS-2000 – Universal Gear Shift Sender
- VHX Instrument Installation – 1964-1965 Chevelle, Malibu, & El Camino
- VHX Instrument Installation – 1966-1967 Chevelle, Malibu and El Camino
- VHX Instrument Installation – 1968 Chevelle/El Camino Systems
- VHX Instrument Installation – 1969 Chevrolet Chevelle, El Camino and Malibu
- VHX Instrument Installation – 1970-1972 Chevy Chevelle & El Camino (SS-Style Dash)
- VHX Instrument Installation – 1978-88 Chevy El Camino/GMC Caballero, 78-83 Chevy Malibu
- VFD3 Gauge Kit (Vacuum Fluorescent Digital Dashboard) Installation and Operation Manual
- PAC-1300A – Retained Accessory With Dome And Headlight Control
- GSS-2000 – Universal Gear Shift Sender
- VHX Instrument Installation- 1963-165 Chevy Nova
- VHX Instrument Installation- 1962 Nova with use of 1963-1965 Bezel
- VHX Instrument Installation – 1966-1967 Chevy Nova
- VFD3 Gauge Kit (Vacuum Fluorescent Digital Dashboard) Installation and Operation Manual
- PAC-1300A – Retained Accessory With Dome And Headlight Control
- GSS-2000 – Universal Gear Shift Sender