It was just after 3:30am when my phone rang. I stared at it for a moment and then hit the green button and said nothing. Three-thirty in the morning is not a late hour for some people, but they are usually not the sane ones. People that work the lines at the darkest hour of [...]
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One Insane Tech Week
Posted on May 1st, 2013 by Ryan
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Project 38: Blower Top
When I first started building my ’38 coupe, the original intention was to go racing. In fact, I was pretty far along building a race car when I decided to transition the build into a street car. So far along, that once the car was finished it still had a race car DNA – namely, [...]
Which Way To The Street Rod Nats?
I’ve looked down upon electronic ignitions for years… They way I saw it is that if conventional points systems worked then, they should work just fine now. But it’s more than just being a loyal soldier – there is a certain level of security in the simplicity of points that fancy electronic ignitions just can’t [...]
Chopping A Fat Ford
In the 1952 issue of “How To Build Hot Rods” the publishers used six full page spreads to discuss the art of chopping a 1936 Ford 5-window. To be honest, the copy of the article isn’t the most readable. And frankly, the end result (pictured above) isn’t the best profile I’ve seen from a chopped ’36 [...]
Tech Week: We Have Winners!
I was gonna write an investigative piece on the perils of tech week success and the doom that many past winners have faced, but I decided that might be a bit inappropriate given the circumstances. We do, after all, have some brand new winners on our hands and I’d hate to get in their minds [...]
Tech Week: VOTE NOW!
Alright fellas… The biggest tech week we’ve ever held is now over and it’s time to cast your votes. In the past, we’ve limited the voting to 10 nominations. This time, there are no limitations and you have over 30 tech articles to sift through and vote on. Good luck with that… It isn’t gonna [...]
Road Trip!
Ryan’s ‘Rivera Junkie’ post had me laughing out loud and thinking seriously at the same time: Driving a totally new-to-you car, that you don’t know at all, thousands of miles back home. Sure, most of us have done it at one time or another… But your never fully at ease that first time out on [...]
The Biggest Tech Week Ever
I’ve been dodging Shane from Baileigh Industrial for a few weeks now. He’s been wanting to create some kind of a “tech week spectacle,” but I just didn’t know if I could stomach his abuse so soon after the H.A.M.B. Drags. My knee caps and thumbs still haven’t completely recovered from our last meeting and [...]
Fear the Yoder!
I remember going to Bobby Walden’s shop party one year after the Grand Nationals and admiring the gigantic power hammer over in the corner. Up to that point I had never year of a Yoder, or realized what an amazing tool it really is. The old original Yoder power hammers are rather hard to come [...]
