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“Are you that guy that makes the videos?”
Yep, thats me!
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Interior Upgrades…
The interior of our Hornet was pretty dated; call it late 1990’s tech? It had APC seats, a funky steering wheel, and a sort of checkerboard pseudo carbon fiber pattern sticker on much of the trim. And don’t forget the bright yellow 1 ball shifter knob! Before PowerTour in 2022 I ditched the goofy shift…
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Ultimate Power Tour Upgrade: 22 Gallon EFI Fuel Tank
I’m pretty proud of myself for this one – having seen a number of people have to deal with the nightmare of a fuel-pump failure while on the road, and knowing that there is no scenario where I’d want to drop the tank on the side of the road, I concocted the idea of putting…
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Removing the front suspension and cross member…
The time has come to remove the tired original AMC suspension and replace with with the ControlFreak IFS with rack and pinion steering and Viking coilovers. To say the suspension on this car was in need of attenion would be an understatement. We originally lowered the car by cutting the coils, and the shocks have…
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Modifying Fuel Tank for Holley Sniper EFI
If you’ve followed my videos for a while, you’ll know that we’ve struggled with a leaking fuel tank on the Hornet for years. At some point something dented the tank, causing a crack and leak any time we put more than half a tank in it. On PowerTour in 2022 just outside of Memphis my…
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ProCar Rally 1000 Seats for our 1973 AMC Hornet
As part of the rebuild of our 1973 AMC Hornet I finally decided to ditch the old seats in favor of ProCar by Scat Rally 1000 seats and I could not be happier! Unfortunately the brackets our our car were out of stock, so I went with the ProCar universal kit and had it welded…
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AMC Hornet Front Bumper – From Junkyard to Brand New in a Week!
My latest project for #dumptruckhornet has been to get the “new” front bumper ready to install on the car. When the car was originally built by Jack Pennington he compressed the absorbers to recess the bumper into the fenders and removed all of the bumper bolts to clean up the look. I wanted to do…
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Retrofitting LED Projectors & Grille Restoration
I’ve been working on our 1973 AMC Hornet, known as the #dumptruckhornet quite a bit in preparation for the Power Tour 2023 – this video is is my process for modifying the factory headlight buckets to accept LED projector headlights from . I also fixed some broken tabs and repainted the replacement grille that an…
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Back from the frame shop! Tons of parts ordered – HRPT2023 Goal!
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Taking Apart Hornet After Hit By A Dump Truck on PowerTour 2022
I was FINALLY able to start working on the Hornet – after months of waiting while working out the numbers I finally signed some stuff this week that has me motivated to start working on the car. I’m so excited to have gotten a few hours in the shop to start the tear down of…
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Finally brought our AMC Hornet Home From PowerTour 2022 – Accident Update…
On the first leg of the 2022 Hot Rod Power Tour our 1973 AMC Hornet was hit by a dumpdruck – we made lemonade out of lemons, hammered and pulled out what we could, and finished the tour, collecting signatures on the damaged parts along the way. By the end of PowerTour I was totally…
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