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Babe Restored
By Mike Thies
While I have always celebrated cars and motorcycles of all kinds, it is natural to have favorites. I fell in love with Porsches on the Interstate years ago when I was passed by a 356 Speedster! This was a number of years before the tragic accident that took James Dean’s life in a…
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Blog on “The Battery Man” by Marilyn Pearlman
Steve Ashby, founder and co-owner of The Battery Man, loves to go to car shows, including a recent one in Biloxi, Mississippi. Twenty-five years ago, he and his partner, wife Brenda, bought the company when it was still called Jiffy Jump Atlanta and moved it from Lilburn to Marietta, Georgia. Steve and his family—including manager Steve Jr. --especially like serving the hot rod…
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A Bite of History – by Mike Thies
The RestoMod
There’s a sweet spot between keeping a car original and making it your own, and that’s where the restomod lives. It’s the perfect handshake between yesterday’s design and today’s technology. You keep the classic lines, the chrome, and that unmistakable old-school personality, but you update what counts. Underneath…
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A Bite of History – by Mike Thies
If the hot rod was about shine and polish, the rat rod was about grit and guts. These weren’t built for trophies or perfection, they were built to run, to rattle, and to raise a little dust. The idea came from guys who were tired of trailer queens and six-figure show cars. They dug through junkyards, swapped parts in driveways, and welded with whatever they had. A true rat rod looked like it might’ve been found behind an old barn,…
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