This ’66 was supposed to have been built decades ago. A partial definition of a “period piece” is something, especially a work of art, that dates from or evokes a historical period. Car people would just call it “old school”. In other words, it’s been done like it used to be “back in the day”….

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Salvaging rare original Chrysler quarters for this museum quality resto. The word “restore” has a lot of different meanings for different people. In the context of restoring classic muscle cars, restore can range from something as simple as basic rust repair and new paint up to what used to be known as a “frame off”…

MCR hand fabricates an aluminum version of a T/A shaker. One of the significant differences between a factory stock restoration and a custom build (on any level) is that whenever there is a departure from the original design there is always the possibility that that departure could affect other areas of the build. In other…

Purchased new, driven, stored and now new again. Even those that are not car guys have one from their youth that has great memories attached to it. It could have been a hot rod of some type or an old beater from your grandmother but it still played a part in your life as you…

Mark Ehlen- MCR Staff If you ask the typical car enthusiast what is the most difficult part of any restoration project, probably 9 out of 10 would say the paint job. The more informed would likely go deeper and say the body work under the paint is more important because without a good foundation for…

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Getting the body ready for the shiny stuff This is where things start to begin to get really serious. Not to say that the previous steps haven’t been. As was mentioned in part 6, the metalwork is the foundation for everything after that but no panels are perfect. As good as the aftermarket panels are,…

Mark Ehlen- MCR Staff The major decisions have been made. The level of restoration has been chosen. The car is at MCR and its turn has come. The beginning of your dream starts today. This is really going to happen; it is happening. The first step of any restoration is evaluation, disassembly and then chemical…

Mark Ehlen- MCR Staff While virtually all of the cars MCR builds are run on the dyno to fully test and tune all their systems for correct function, relatively few get dyno tested at the beginning of the resto. That is simply because very few of them show up in running/driving condition. Most of those…