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Eastwood has been the trusted source of automotive restoration tools and supplies for more than 30 years. It has always been the place to go whenever the home hobbyist needed to fix a body panel or treat a rusty frame. Adding to that product lineup is the new MaxxPower brand of engine accessories...

You have a lot of time to think when you're mowing an acre of grass, and during yesterday's lawn adventure the mind wandered to what I was going to blog about today, and I came up with the idea of doing a vehicle of the month review kind of thing. I couldn't decide on what car or truck to do first, then it hit me... well it was the low hanging branch of an Austrian Pine that I didn't pay attention to, but it drove the idea for my May's vehicle into my skull...

The economy may be in recovery mode, and the automotive industry may be waiting for a jump start, but according to the Chicago Tribune, auctions of classic cars are drawing record crowds across the nation. "We simply refuse to participate in the recession," said Dana Mecum, chief executive officer of Mecum Auto Auction. Entering the weekend, 63 percent of the vehicles were sold, according to Tom Christmann, Mecum's marketing manager...

I was poking around conceptcarz.com this morning and ran across this 1949 Chevrolet GK Styleline Deluxe. Production of the Chevrolet Styleline began in 1949. It was considered to be among the best-looking GM products produced...

Another blast from the past, from that era when you could tell what a car was at a glance. We're sort of getting back towards that now on the styling side, but for a while there not only was it hard to tell what year a car was, sometimes it was hard to identify the make when everything looked like a Taurus of a different size. This is a 1975 Chevrolet Caprice Classic convertible, Chevy's last big convertible...

So you think you know your cars? If you love a challenge, you should visit the Mystery Car Pix discussion on our Automotive News forum. As of this writing there are just about 17,000 posts in the discussion with plenty of photos of vehicles to test yourslf on...

Dear Dub, I've always wanted a classic sports car and now a friend of mine is offering me an MG at a great price. Am I lucky or what? Douglas Corrigan At times like this I'm reminded of one of the sonnets from the Bard of Bay Two...

There's been a lot of talk about the housing bubble and the credit crunch. Looks like we've had a bit of a bubble in the pricing of classic cars as well. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the fallout from the credit crunch and housing market turmoil has reached the garages of classic car collectors...

So there I was, watching a bit of TV before making a road trip to my daughter's basketball game, when an infomercial comes on for an inversion therapy system. You know the deal. Suspend yourself upside down and fix your back...

There were two auctions this weekend that showed the two extremes of the car hobby. First was the Barrett-Jackson auction from Scottsdale, Arizona. The cars coming across the block there were amazing in their quality and, for some, their price...