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Distributor Test Machines Make a Comeback

By Paul Crowe

King Electronics D16 Distributor Tester

Working on that American muscle car back in the 60s, you didn't have a computer diagnostic port where the car told you what was wrong, if you thought the ignition might be an issue, you checked the plugs, the points, the distributor cap and all of the associated wiring. Maybe you changed the springs on the centrifugal advance to change the curve, hoping to get the best from … [Read more...]

Zippo Car – Another Great American Productmobile

By Paul Crowe

Zippo Car - a 1947 Chrysler Saratoga productmobile built for the Zippo Manufacturing Company in Bradford, PA

Ask someone to name a car redesigned to look like a company's primary product and I'm guessing most will think of the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile, but the idea of building "productmobiles" to act as a marketing and goodwill ambassador wasn't confined to weiners. Back in 1947, Zippo Manufacturing built the Zippo Car to look like a pair of the company's world famous Zippo Windproof … [Read more...]

ICEngineWorks Exhaust Header Modeling Blocks – Make Custom Headers Like a Pro

By Paul Crowe

Exhaust header mockup using icengineworks modeling blocks

The original Ford GT40, had a pretty sweet exhaust system appropriately called a "basket of snakes" reflecting the intertwined tubes running over the engine and out the back. Some of us look at a system like that and our first thought is of the time and frustration involved putting it together for the first time. ICEngineWorks might have made their day a little easier and if … [Read more...]

Drive American Muscle? Buy American Made Parts

By Paul Crowe

American Muscle needs American Made parts

When you fire up that vintage Mustang or Camaro, do you ever think about where it came from? Do you even briefly remember the long decades of American auto industrial dominance? Slide behind the wheel of your Plymouth GTX and look out over the hood and imagine the world of the late 1960s. Did you ever envision the huge shuttered buildings where cars used to be built, back when … [Read more...]

WeatherTech by MacNeil Automotive Now Made in America – Let’s See More of This

By Paul Crowe

WeatherTech now Made in America

There's an interesting multi-page advertisement running in most of the auto magazines this month, it's for MacNeil Automotive Products, the company that makes WeatherTech floor mats, cargo liners and window deflectors. In the ad, David MacNeil, the founder and CEO of the company talks about a new manufacturing expansion they're doing in Bolingbrook, Illinois. He's decided to … [Read more...]

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