Content about 1988

June 18, 2012
Automatic to Manual Pedal Conversion

 

To convert from an AOD to a five-speed, you’ll need infrastructure in the form of a brake/clutch pedal assembly for it all to work together. You can approach this change a couple of ways. You can swap in just the clutch pedal and safety switch, or you can change out the entire pedal assembly with one from a donor car. Both involve some work, but both can be done in your garage without special tools.

June 18, 2012
Dragon Chaser

 

Riding a wingspan roughly as wide as a 10-story building is high, the U-2 pilot, insulated in a full pressurized flight suit and astronaut-like helmet, grips the stick and makes a final check on his alignment with the runway. The Lockheed spyplane is in the final seconds of a long, high-altitude recon mission overflying volatile hotspots to see what the bad guys have been up to lately.

June 15, 2012
10-Hole Transformation

 

As with vintage muscle cars, for many 5.0-powered Fox Mustangs the factory wheels were often the first things to go. Why run a set of 15x7-inch 10-holes or turbines when you could spring for a set of 16-inch ponies, Weld Draglites, or 17-inch Cobra Rs? And as for five-lug conversions — well, you can say goodbye to your four-bolt factory rims forever.

As a result, for many years, turbines and 10-holes were sold, junked, or dumped in the back of the garage with the pile of other unwanted parts.

January 26, 2012
Seat Re-Seat

Nothing makes an interior look nastier than stained, saggy, sticky, split, smelly seats. Yucksville.