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Contents: Up Front – This Month On CarCraft.com (Go to our site for details on the Summer Nationals. Register early and finish your car. We’ll see you there); Front Man (It’s time for employee reviews. Doug, your column is my favorite page of the magazine); Readers’ Pages (Guess what? No first-gen Camaros in these pages. Oh, who are we kidding); Action!! (Remember the movie The Running Man? Fireball was the baddest of the bad guys); Straight Scoop (KFC’s chicken is now without trans fat. Where did it all go? Potholes, maybe?) Greasy Stuff – This Guy’s Garage (Would you have the gut to saw a Camaro in half lengthwise? We wouldn’t); Speed Shop (The latest and greatest from the aftermarket, plus a fountain-of-youth battery fix); Horsepower (With an aluminum block and custom cross-ram intake, there are big-bucks in this big-block. At 540 inches, big power too); Sleeper Small-Block (With crappy iron heads and a crappy intake, this big-inch stroker looks like a smog-era 305, but it smokes the competition); Rebuild An Electronic Quadrajet (Consumate recyclers that we are, we spared another Q-jet from the landfill. Think Al Gore will subscribe?); GM Steering Column Rehab (Woobly steering wheel? You can fix it with Locktite, two special tools, and a lot of patience); What’s Your Problem? (Do you want to fit a serpentine belt to your big-block? Smith shows you how) Fun Stuff – Krass & Bernie (We’re still waiting to meet girls who look like the ones Bernie hangs out with); Raphael Ordaz’s Turbo Mustang (A homemade turbo system in a Fox-body Mustang – this is the epitome of car crafting); Doug Eisberg’s ’69 Nova (Yeah, it’s got a big-block, but it hides its size very well); Tim Dolan’s ’69 Buick Skylark (We laughed at this car until we saw it pull the wheels. Who’s laughing now?); Paul Allen’s ’03 Mustang Cobra (Want to make more than 600 hp with one bolt-on? Buy a Cobra, buy a Whipple, and put the two together); Carl Casanova’s ’68 Camaro (Check out the homemade gauge cluster in the console. Oh yeah, the supercharged LS1 and T56 are pretty cool, too) Out Back – On The Rack (I used to hate tube socks til I saw page 100); Junkyard Crawl (Are we crazy or was this Javelin’s shifter handle designed by an NFL kicker?); Behind The Scenes (We went somewhere to watch some guys race. The cops even showed up, too); Rear View (We’ve been around since 1953. We’ve got vast archives to draw from)
Issue: August 2009
Condition: Very Good