While our editors traverse the country to find the best content for those magazines, we find other oddities related to the old-car hobby that we really had no place for - until now. With this blog, we're giving you a behind-the-scenes look at what we see and what we do during the course of putting out some of the finest automotive magazines you'll ever read.
Not every flashy restomod or custom looks as neat and tidy under the skin as it does at 20 feet. The reality of the situation is that builders sometimes take shortcuts, owners more often than not have limited budgets or time constraints, and there's a million ways to hide the sins of backyard engineering under metal flake paint and leather upholstery and hope nobody notices.
As Mike Bello of Bello's Kustoms noted, he's not usually tasked with straightening out such cob-jobs -- rather, he's far more talented as a metalshaper and at altering a car's silhouette -- but we're glad he took on the job of fixing everything wrong with a street-rodded 1950 Chevrolet pickup, because he dives into those sins and shortcuts, explains the rationalization behind them, then shows how to improve on what's there. Brakes took priority here, of course, but it's an ongoing series covering fuel, air ride, and more.
