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It’s happening: new Honda CRX replacement parts

Second-gen Honda CRX or Civic need a replacement bumper cover, bumper lamp or hood? A company called FF Motion has you covered–with more parts in the works.

How one fan restored a crashed F1 race car

Can a crashed F1 car really be brought back to racing condition–and without the nearly unlimited resources of an F1 team?

Watch us turn this pile of parts into a rare vintage racer

Did you know we're in the middle of restoring a one-of-30 Elva Mk VI–that's also a long-lost Sebring 12-Hour entry?

How To Find Your Next Project Car—and Finish It, Too

Looking for your next—or perhaps first—project car, but don’t know where to start?

Have You Met One of Our Most Ambitious Projects to Date?

Sure, it was a complete basket case, but we like a challenge.

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Restoration articles

Electronics & Electrical Systems: How to wire a car from scratch

Wiring a car from scratch doesn’t have to be a daunting project.

Electronics & Electrical Systems: Troubleshooting 101: Basic steps when your car won't start

Sometimes a simple, methodical approach can bring that dead car back to life.

Shop Work: How to easily diagnose common automotive electrical problems

Have some spark outside of your engine block? Here's how to fix that.

Shop Work: 10 tips that will make your engine rebuild a success

Rebuilding an engine? Here are 10 tips to ensure it all goes right.

Shop Work: How to solve common electrical issues with only a test light

In building the Miata-powered MGB GT pictured, we mated the MG’s wiring harness to the Miata’s engine-management loom using nothing more than a test light.

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Restoration project car updates

Maintaining and repairing an air-cooled 911? Easier than you think.

The Porsche coasted to a stop–silently, without any warning. No glowing lights on the dash. Yes, plenty of gas in the tank. 

I was returning from a PCA get-together at …

Making our Corvette safer to drive with a few minor fixes

The first thing that needed fixing on our 1965 Corvette was the leaking caliper. Generally we would do these in pairs, but as the rest had recently been …

Constructing a seat mount for our Elva's freshly-made passenger seat

After finishing the fiberglass portion of our Elva’s passenger seat, we still needed to build an upper seat bracket.

We took a …

Fabricating an Elva passenger seat–by replicating the driver seat

Why did we build a passenger seat for our Elva sports racer?

Because that’s what the racing rules of the day required.

A related quote, in fact, from the SCCA’s …

Well, our Elva’s new clutch system would require some fabrication

So, our new clutch hydraulic system? We ran into a snag.

You see, the ideal place for the clutch slave cylinder mount on the transaxle was already occupied by …

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