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Buyer’s Guide: A Basic Guide to Choosing a Car/Truck Cover

A good car or truck cover is essential for winter storage. For many of us, though, the need for good vehicle covers extends beyond the winter months. We’re looking to protect our rides from spring pollen, summer sunshine, fall leaves (and falling acorns). And we may not have the garage or garage space to provide

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Thanks #24: An Overdue Tip of the Cap to the Great Jeff Gordon

NASCAR was almost exclusively a southern thing. Something we Yanks watched and enjoyed, but could always tell wasn’t really for us. It was full of Southern accents, good ol’ boys, and associated symbolically with the tobacco industry and Confederate flag. And then Jeff Gordon happened. A little pretty boy from California with no discernible Southern drawl.

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Mailbag: Waking up a Sluggish Small Block

Q: I have a 1963 Chevy II that I am fixing up. It has a 350 small block bored .030-inch over with a 383 stroker crankshaft, 5.7-inch connecting rods, and forged flat top pistons that spec out to 11:1 compression with 64cc heads. However, the heads I used are 58cc camelback heads that were supposedly rebuilt

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