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Monthly Archives: November 2013

59 Chevy Truck sway bars

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Good evening Classic car lovers! Since I’ve been driving our 59 Chevy, I’ve noticed when going around corners/curves, the truck tends to lean a bit, or body roll. So, I purchased a set of sway bars (front and rear) for the old truck from Performance Online.     The price for front and rear sway […]

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Aprilia RS250 Race bike (past bike)

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OK, back to reminiscing again:(  Back in 2004, I was experimenting with race bikes, or in my case, track bikes. Even though I had my race license and had the number 298, I had only raced officially twice in my life, I came in last:(  But I was out there baby! yeah!   The Aprilia […]

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HF Paint Shaker (pneumatic)

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  HI Classic Car enthusiast fans! Just a short mention of my new, now used, Harbor Freight Tools paint shaker!  I had a gallon can of 2k primer that had sat on a shelf, and it had a slight leak, so I took it to the paint store where I buy my automotive paints to […]

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2002 Honda CRV air conditioning repair

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  Hi! Dne’ here;) Though this ’02 Honda CR-v isn’t a classic, I felt compelled to put this repair on Classic Cars and Tools because there are many people out there having problems with this particular AC system(including yours truly), mainly due to the HS110R scroll AC compressor blowing up!   Recently we purchased our […]

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Geo Tracker paint job

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Hi Gang! I took a little time and labor to give my ’97 Geo Tracker a “face lift”! After spending great deal of time on the mechanical aspects of making it reliable, it was time to make it look fresh again. It’s had some years of neglect (not by me!) and lots of whiskey bumps, […]

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