Month: March

Photo Gallery: 2016 Detroit Autorama Street Machines

Want a great big gallery of Detroit Autorama street machines? Well, you’ve come to the right place, because we have dozens of such pictures. Detroit Autorama is famous for its mammoth show floor, thousands of show cars, and attendance that numbers in the hundreds of thousands. We’ve spent the past week showing you the 2016

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The Waterless Option: Examining Waterless Coolant and Why It Might be Right for You

Since the 1930s, hot rodders and performance car enthusiasts have relied primarily on engine coolants made from a mix of ethylene glycol, water, and corrosion inhibitors. While these water-based coolants have done an admirable job of cooling, history shows they can be prone to overheating, boil-over, and after-boil conditions at high operating temperatures. In other words, traditional water-based coolants are

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Photo Gallery: Awesome Trucks from Detroit Autorama 2016

There are a million things to see at America’s premier indoor car show, and we did our best to see them all at the 2016 edition of the Detroit Autorama. We tried to point the camera at everything with wheels. Here are the trucks we encountered while doing so: [portfolio_slideshow id=51636]

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CHEV-XXL: Chris Redman’s 1966 Chevy Chevelle

It’s a great time to be a car guy. Cut a modest check to your local dealership and you can drive off the lot today in a brand new, 200 mile-per-hour behemoth, decked out with sumptuous leather, power everything, and a bumper-to-bumper warranty. So why on Earth would anyone invest all the time and garage

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Photo Gallery: Detroit Autorama 2016 Flexes Some Muscle

There isn’t just one good reason to visit the Detroit Autorama—the premier indoor car show in the United States. Many attendees eagerly await announcement of the presitgeous Ridler Award winner, and ooh and ahh over all of the Great 8 finalists. Maybe others prefer the classics, or the killer choppers, or the tricked-out, beefed-up trucks on

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Video: How to Measure For and Install a New Driveshaft with QA1

Do you want to know how to properly measure for and install a new driveshaft? Our friends QA1 and Summit Racing teamed up for this video which, using the QA1 REV Series Carbon Fiber Driveshaft as its subject, will give you the basic information you need to complete a driveshaft installation. Learn about the critical

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Photo Gallery: Rat Infestation at the 2016 Detroit Autorama

The Detroit Autorama may be best known for its Ridler Award. We showed you this year’s Ridler winner, Billy Thomas’ 1939 Oldsmobile, and the entire group of Great 8 finalists for the award. These incredible customs were worthy of every bit of attention they got, but they were only the tip of the proverbial iceberg in

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