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The Shop Truck: Why would I want exhaust headers?

February 6, 2014

Ever since we ran our exhaust replacement story in the fall, we've been asked (and have started debating) why exhaust headers are such a good thing, given the price, installation difficulties, and maintenance t...

Muscle Cars: Then and Now

Blast Magazine Newsroom

October 9, 2013

Muscle cars were starting to die out in the mid 1970s, and they were a distant memory by the 80s. The Mustang and Camaro bounced up and down in the car game throughout the 1990s and 2000s, and there were act...

The top 25 “Runner Up” cars

Paul Gluck

September 16, 2013

At this stage in the development of the Internet, we have all been subjected to lists. Specifically, the “Top random number movie and or TV and or animated cars list”. I know I have seen plenty of them. They ar...

The Shop Truck #7 — How to wash your engine bay

John M. Guilfoil

August 26, 2013

Corey expertly covers the air cleaner/carburetor and the distributor cap. Just go for it, right? Wrong. After our trip to Little Foreign Car Garage to see Skipper Hull went, well, swimmingly, we were adv...

The Shop Truck #6 — What’s that coming out from underneath..ohhhh crap…

John M. Guilfoil

August 24, 2013

Son of a bitch. Yeah...it overheated As Corey introduced earlier this week, Blast Cars visited the Little Foreign Car Garage in Waltham to catch up with my old friend Ken "Skipper" Hull, who has been in ...

The Shop Truck Update: Marvel Mystery Oil didn’t work for lifter tick

John M. Guilfoil

August 19, 2013

Obviously, not every product works exactly the same way for exactly the same problem. But, sadly, we have to report that Marvel Mystery Oil did not do the trick for our Chrysler LA 318 engine's lifter tick. ...

The Shop Truck #5 — Cleaning Out the Doors

John M. Guilfoil

August 14, 2013

This is Zep 505 cleaner. I love it. Car restoration is glamorous right? A guy gets his hands dirty, uses a ratchet and some wrenches, maybe gets cut a few times. Women in the area get turned on. (Or a wo...

The Shop Truck #4 — You hear that ticking? We think that’s a bad lifter

John M. Guilfoil

August 13, 2013

You hear that? Use your noggin to filter out the pulleys and the fan noise and you'll hear a rhythmic ticking. It's a dreaded sound that is often associated with faulty hydraulic lifters. In the video ...

The Shop Truck #3 — Status Report

John M. Guilfoil

August 8, 2013

Kevin had The Shop Truck for almost 90 days, and in that time he replaced a lot of parts and did way more work than he could ever have anticipated on a truck that is, as we both noted, shockingly clean. He run...

The Shop Truck #2 — Buying It

John M. Guilfoil

June 15, 2013

Let me tell you something you already know: Buying a car sucks. Shopping sucks. Dealing with salespeople really sucks. (The fake "supervisor" that the guy talks to, I mean, seriously?) Knowing that you're getti...

5 things I’ll do to my 2012 Dodge Charger (and 3 I won’t…)

John M. Guilfoil

March 8, 2012

Let's not get carried away here

Affordable safety

Sarah Mullins

November 26, 2009

A desire for quality and safety remain strong when purchasing a new vehicle these days despite our limited budgets. The sensible approach in the quest for economical and affordable safety has taken over in our ...

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