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Curt Six submitted a new blog post: Details You Can't Un-See [IMG] The devil is in the details. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We all know that when you...
Curt Six submitted a new blog post: Kustomville 2026 [IMG] Kustomville USA is this weekend, and I won’t be there. I know I’m missing out on...
Curt Six submitted a new blog post: Modifying a Survivor: Are They Really Off Limits? [IMG] Thirty years ago, it was Us and Them—hot rodders...
Curt Six submitted a new blog post: Why Print Matters: The Electroline Diaries [IMG] Of all the hot rod and custom references crowding my...
Curt Six submitted a new blog post: Love for the Hardtops: Chevrolet's 1953-54 Bel Air [IMG] Over the weekend I rediscovered this image of a...
Curt Six submitted a new blog post: Garlits Versus Everyone [IMG] February, 1959. In response to the NHRA’s infamous nitro ban, the Smokers...
Curt Six submitted a new blog post: Rods & Customs in the MTV Era [IMG] Hot rods and rock and roll have been inextricably linked since the...
Curt Six submitted a new blog post: Why Print Matters: Hop Up Issue Four [IMG] There’s simply no quit in Hop Up magazine. Born in August of...
Curt Six submitted a new blog post: One Night in Town [IMG] This post was going to be called “One Night in Texas” because these photos were...
Curt Six submitted a new blog post: Drunk Willie and the Naivety of Youth [IMG] Sometimes I miss the carelessness and naivety of youth. My...
Curt Six submitted a new blog post: Why Print Matters: Kustomland [IMG] The mid- to late-’50s was a glorious time for custom cars. During the...
Curt Six submitted a new blog post: Preserving History in the AI Age [IMG] The subject of Artificial Intelligence is a hornet’s nest I have no...
Curt Six submitted a new blog post: The Last Drag Strip in America [IMG] Sometimes you find the true soul of hot rodding when you least expect...
Curt Six submitted a new blog post: Sharpest Tool in the Shed [IMG] Vintage tools are no different than vintage cars or guitars. They feel...
Curt Six submitted a new blog post: A Shoebox Mystery? [IMG] This post is going to go one of two ways. One, it could bring to light a largely...
Curt Six submitted a new blog post: Why Print Matters: Hot Rod Deluxe #1 [IMG] I love print. Hot rod books and magazines have fueled my brain...
Curt Six submitted a new blog post: Bad Customs, Good Intentions [IMG] There’s a longstanding tradition that your first post on the HAMB be an...
Does anyone have any photos of how they’ve run their exhaust tubing to make their Bellflower tips functional? One of my cars is at the exhaust...
I’m trying to remove the porthole trim/hood latch mechanism from my ‘41 Buick. [ATTACH] There are two studs with 3/8” nuts on them at the very...
The gauges in my '41 Buick were cosmetically shot, and I was able to piece together two pretty decent sets to replace them. The '41 gauges (the...
I've mounted a Mustang-style fuel tank in the trunk of my '41 Buick (and yes, I'm fully welding in a firewall between the trunk and the cabin). I...
I’m trying to remove the windshield wiper assembly from my ‘41 Buick so I can remove the dash for paint, plate the wiper towers and replace the...
This '36 Ford custom just popped up on Randy Bianchi Jr.'s Instagram feed and it kinda blew my mind (sorry for the screenshot photos with the...
I found a really neat set of early-'40s taillight bezels and lenses. The only thing is they've got the brand logo molded into the glass. Is there...
[ATTACH] A while back I took my ’41 Buick Super to @Cody Walls shop, Traditional Metalcraft, and we spent the week chopping the top and taking a...
I'm working out a Vintage Air system for my straight eight (a '49 248 in my '41 Super). I know I need to keep as much air flowing across that boat...
New One-Shot on an old window. Lettering's on the back of the glass. 24" x 20" overall size. Make a cool wall hanger. Or bondo mixing station....
For you guys who've built bumper guard taillights, how did you attach the lenses to the guard? Are they mechanically fastened somehow, or did you...
Early '33-'38 flathead generator with dual sheave pulley. Asking $150 obo plus shipping. DM with questions/offers. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Dual sheave generator pulley for flathead. It's the kind that threads onto the shaft. See pics and DM me with questions or offers. Asking $185 obo...
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