Day: 5

Custom Header Designs from Doug’s Headers

Way back in the dawn of hot rodding, exhaust headers were a make-your-own proposition. Through trial and error, you cut and welded pieces of tubing together to create headers for your Flathead Ford, Red Ram Hemi, Jimmy six, or that newfangled small block Chevy. Sometimes you got something that worked, and sometimes you didn’t. Times

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Big Carb Shootout: One Legendary Buick Tests Out Four Carburetors

[portfolio_slideshow id=4839]   Richard Lasseter made hot rod history way back in 1984 when his 1970 Buick Gran Sport Stage 1 automatic beat a Plymouth GTX Hemi four-speed in a shootout sponsored by Car Review magazine (now Muscle Car Review). When the tire smoke cleared, the Stage 1 455 had beat the Hemi with a

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