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A Lifelong Passion for Cars: Why It Makes Me the Ideal Partner for Customers For as long as I can remember, cars have been more than just a means of transportation to me; they’ve been a passion, an obsession, and a key part of my life’s story. F...

Facebook Marketplace has become one of the most popular platforms for buying and selling items, from second-hand furniture to electronics, clothing, and even vehicles. Its user-friendly interface, integration with Facebook’s social network, and vas...

How do you determine your car’s worth? Every seller who starts to think about selling their car must ask themselves, “What’s my car worth?” There are many tools and resources out there to try and gauge the value of your car including Hagerty...

Selling a vehicle is a lot of work – and it SHOULD BE a lot of work. I have bought, restored, and sold several vehicles before, and for every vehicle I was selling, I put a lot of effort into showcasing the work that I had done on it so that a buye...

What is a Corvette Z06? It all started back in 1962, when Zora Arkus-Duntov proposed the idea of continuing to produce performance parts for the Corvette to support private racing teams without officially supporting them.  GM had withdrawn from rac...

What is the most popular Chevy truck ever made? We’re not 100% sure, but we think it’s likely the 1973-1987 Rounded Line.  It’s a confusing line of trucks.  Not only was it in production for a huge length of time, but when the pickups receiv...

What is a Mustang Mach 1? It all started in 1969, with the introduction of the new Mach 1.  Here was a performance-oriented Mustang designed and engineered to look and perform with the best-of-the-best 1969 had to offer – cars like the Pontiac GT...

If you’ve read some of my restoration articles, you’ll know that I did the bodywork on most of the cars. I’ve often been asked about how I usually go about this process. There are certainly different ways of doing bodywork and the steps taken h...

Coming from a small family construction company with a loyal customer base, one of many things we were taught first and foremost was Customer Service.  Absolutely no business will survive without the customer.  Satisfied customers will usually retu...

There are a lot of folks out there that are intimidated by electricity, let alone the automobile electrical system. To bring some clarity to the mystery, let’s dive right into the basics. What are the main components of a car electrical system? H...

The year was 1976, I was 13 and for some unforeseen reason my father decided to do one of those infamous father-son projects.  Early on a Saturday morning, we piled in the truck with the trailer in tow and headed to the small town of Akron in the e...

Interestingly, while there are plenty of people who still snub the notion of a kit car, there are seemingly more motoring enthusiasts roaming the planet today who appreciate them.  What began in the 1950s with people scouring junkyards for frames or...