Hemmings Find of the Day – 1948 Chevrolet Fleetmaster

A well-done woodie is always a treat to see and will always be considered rare, both because so few were made (compared to their steel-bodied counterparts) and because so few survived the years. The accessories added to this 1948 Chevrolet Fleetmaster for sale on Hemmings.com may give it a bit of an overdone look, but […]

Honor, Virtue, Character, Bravery

In the time period covered by this book, kids believed in heroes. So did lots of adults. The subjects of their adulation viewed their status in the world as a responsibility that had to be met every single day. This is the story of one such relationship between a Phoenix kid and a sensationally good […]

Quick and Less Dirty Undercoating Removal

The nastiest job I’ve had to tackle while reworking my Chevy pickup? Digging the old undercoating from the floorboards, the transfer case and the transmission. A lot of people go the heat-it-with-the-torch and scrape it route. I tried that initially, but the smoke and the burns (from the occasional piece of smoldering tar on the […]