Classic Car Road Tests Articles

Goodyear Wrangler SilentArmor Pro Grade Tires

When the subject of customizing a brand-new truck comes up around the offices of Custom Classic Trucks, the topic takes on an entirely different direction than what most people might think. Sure, we are concerned about looking cool as much as the next guy, but more

Kit Car Test Event - We Test 'Em

If you're going to test kit cars, you should hire KIT CAR's co-workers to organize the event. Never before have we had to attend so many meetings. We were beginning to think that maybe the KIT CAR Performance Day wasn't worth all the effort it entailed to pull more

1935 Chevrolet With ABS Power Brake - Ready, Set, Stop - Rod and Custom

Everybody on the road is a reckless maniac, hurrying to get someplace, chatting on a cell phone, and oblivious to the presence of hot rods. If you're going to mix it up with that kind of traffic, you need to make sure your rod is equipped with up-to-date brakes. Four-wheel discs are a good start, bu more

1932 Ford Sedan vs. 1934 Chevy Coupe - High Noon

As the kid pulled into the pits, he spotted his rival, an older gent with weathered features and white hair, sitting back in a chair biding his time. The young buck slouched down a little lower in his black bucket, peered through the mail slots of his chopped more

The Kit Car Challenge

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Slam Dance

The more we run cars on the unforgiving asphalt dragstrips, the more it becomes clear that tuning is the key to performance perfection. We burn up a ton of space in this magazine waving the horsepower flag. But there’s also another form of power—the more

Zetec-Powered Birkin Series Three

There’s nothing like wringing out an agile kit car on a real racetrack. There I was, blasting around a road circuit in a midnight-blue Birkin propelled by a hot Ford Zetec twincam, and having a wonderful time—it’s a tough job, but someone’s more

Go! Whoa!

If you think about it, that’s what performance is all about. It’s old school now to have a car that leaves as though it were launched off the U.S.S. Enterprise but stops like a dump truck full of sand. In search of the ultimate go-whoa machine, Chevy more

Xtremely Cool

Until this year, you could never have used the words extreme and S10 in the same sentence. The S10 has always been Chevy's little mini-truck workhorse, shining as a diminutive version of Chevy's fullsize trucks. Since 1982, the S10 has always just been there. more