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Project Car Diaries: When Upgrading an Old Car’s Brakes Turns Dangerous
Hank O'Hop On top of painting my 1969 Dodge Charger project and getting its engine in shape, I’d made a series of brake upgrades to the car. Last year I installed a Right Stuff power brake conversion....
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Project Car Diaries: Slapping KC Hilites on My Honda Civic Was a Great Idea
Andrew P. Collins If your car was built before 2010, and/or didn’t come with LED headlights, adding some quality auxiliary lights would probably be a huge upgrade for late-night zoomies whether we’re...
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Project Car Diaries: My Engine-Cleaning Techniques for Sensitive Old Cars
Andrew P. Collins My Mitsubishi Montero has had a fun year of hauling dogs and camping around New York’s Hudson Valley. Now that cold weather is here and snow is a reality soon, I’m pulling it off the...
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Project Car Diaries: Here Are the Cars We’re Resolving To Work on in 2024
Maddox Kay, Andrew Collins We’re now weeks into 2024, and that pesky New Year’s resolution to make smarter financial choices is officially out the window. Thank God. Welcome back to Project Car...
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Project Car Diaries: My ’69 Charger Gets Big Diff Energy and LSD Goodness
Hank O'Hop Since it entered my family in the 1980s, the weakest link of my 1969 Dodge Charger has been its 8-1/4-inch differential. That rear end was meant to be used behind small V8s like the 318...
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Project Car Diaries: I Wasn’t Sure How To Mount My Fancy New Bumper so I Just...
Andrew P. Collins This dude I’m in a car club with, Adam, once blew my mind with an off-hand comment: “I like wrenching on my cars more than driving them.” He had good stuff, too (a BMW and two...
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Project Car Diaries: The Weeks-Long Hell of Making My JDM Evo Minivan Pass...
James Gilboy I thought the hardest part about registering my 1996 Mitsubishi Chariot Resort Runner GT would be the 2,800-mile drive home. Instead, it turned out to be the easy part when my catalytic...
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Project Car Diaries: Testing Many Methods for Keeping Mice out of My BMW
Andrew P. Collins Mice can wreck cars by gnawing on critical hoses or wires, doing major damage that’s tricky to track down. Vehicles that spend a lot of time parked, like our precious projects, are...
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My Volvo V70 R Feels Younger After Fresh Spark Plugs and an Engine Mount
Maddox Kay My daily-driver 2005 Volvo V70 R has been dependable, despite its 185,000-mile odometer reading and age. It’s never broken down or left me stranded, and outside of oil changes I’ve replaced...
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My 1966 Ford Dump Truck Is Still Sputtering Along, but I Want It To Sing
Caleb Jacobs I would not call my 1966 Ford dump truck unreliable. I love it too much to say that. What I will say is that in my four years of ownership, I’ve never quite solved its fuel problems....
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