Published on 11-02-2010 11:48 AM
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HushMat, a leader in the automotive sound deadening and thermal insulation category, announces a new and improved Quiet Tape shop roll.
"This material offers the vehicle technician, installer or Do-It-Yourself customer a pliable, moldable and aggressive, single-sided tape to secure every wire or cable in their vehicle," Tim McCarthy, HushMat’s President, stated. "Quiet Tape is a very effective vibration damping (dampening) material for plastic trim panels."
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Published on 11-01-2010 12:29 PM
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If you'd like to replace the old worn out and pitted front door handles on your Chevelle restoration project, Greg's Automotive has the answer with these high quality 64 to 65 front door handle assemblies. Each handle will work for either 2 or 4 Door models.
These handles are made and assembled in the USA with the finest quality components available and include a show car quality chrome finish.
Also unlike other handles on the market, ours come complete with the push button assembly already installed, and they also include all the necessary gaskets and hardware and are Made to fit and made to last.
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November 12, 2010 — June 20, 2011. The Studebaker National Museum, in conjunction with the League of Retired Automobile Designers, presents a look at what a modern-day Studebaker might look like. Over fifty works created by members of the League of Retired Automobile Designers will be shown in the Museum’s AM General Atrium. The League is a group of automotive design veterans from Ford, General Motors, Chrysler, AMC, Studebaker and Packard and are devoting their years of design experience and talents to present their interpretations of what a 21st century Studebaker would be. The exhibit is being coordinated by former Studebaker and Ford designer Virgil Exner, Jr.
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Hooker Competition Headers offer the best value in the high performance header market. Designed for the value–conscious buyer who is running either a “stock” or “mildly–modified” engine, Hooker Competition Headers offer premium features at a very competitive price. Made of durable 16 gauge mild steel tubing, the Hooker Competition header design utilizes a long transition collector to reduce back pressure and increase exhaust flow. Follow along as the experts from Hooker show us how to install a set.
Throttle Position Kit for Electric Choke Carburetors. Running an electric choke Holley carburetor and having trouble figuring out how to get that new electronic overdrive transmission to work? Holley has a solution for you. Holley is proud to introduce the new TPS kit for electric choke carburetors. The TPS kit is designed to be used on electric choke equipped Holley Carburetors and is perfect for use with an electronic overdrive transmission such as a 4L60E or 4L80E and can also be used for data acquisition.
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CPP’s new Complete Rear Dual Adjustable Coil-Over Kit is designed to convert your 1963-72 Chevy truck to a corner carving, performance driving vehicle! Our kit includes our new Totally Tubular Trailing arms, coil over springs and dual adjustable coil over shocks and all the mounting hardware to make this rear suspension
Get that cool street rod stance and track proven performance for your 1963-87 Chevrolet C10 Truck! Our Complete Front Coil-Over Conversion Kits include dual-adjustable coil-over shocks, spanner wrench and bearing kit, our Totally Tubular™ upper and lower control arms, and all the mounting brackets and hardware for a simple bolt-on installation.
Sue Vanderbilt in a 1958 Cadillac Eldorado Seville “Baroness;" the show car that she styled for the Feminine Show. When you look back at General Motors’ rich design history, one of the most talented individuals, who made her career as part of GM’s vaunted Creative Design Team, was the late Suzanne E. Vanderbilt.
Vanderbilt was one of the original Damsels of Design – a group of eight, great talented female designers that the famed Harley Earl hired during the early days of the 1950s.
Throughout history, the Oldsmobile story has inspired many automotive historians with its rich and celebrated heritage which started right in Michigan’s capital city of Lansing.
I remember a particularly exciting year in 1978 when Oldsmobile introduced their new line of vehicles and automotive catalogues to the buying public. My first impression was that Oldsmobile was using 1978 to create a family-oriented lineup of new cars. The company used its advertising and marketing to highlight many traditional family values
The year 1966 was a great year for automotive sales in the U.S. Many car manufacturers were doing very well for the economy and in 1966 the average cost for a new Dodge vehicle sold for $ 2,280 and the price of gasoline for 32 cents a gallon.
The Chrysler Corporation was also doing very well within the automotive markets with its popular Dodge Dart models. The 1966 Dodge Dart models made their debut in Dodge dealerships on September 30, 1965.
Based on a 1956 Chevrolet 210 Sedan, this recently completed mild custom was built to showcase the timeless factory “Tri-Five” heritage. With a new GM Performance ZZ4 power plant backed by a factory-fresh GM 700R4 transmission, it is equipped with rack-and-pinion steering, four-wheel Wilwood disc
To ensure that Shelby American would have its 1966 GT350 models in dealerships when Ford released the new ‘66 Mustangs, Shelby ordered an additional 252 cars from Ford’s San Jose plant at the very end of 1965 production. These ‘change-over’ cars (often referred to as ‘carry-overs’) were essentially Shelby-spec ’65 GT350s, and received the same performance modifications,