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Video: Installing YearOne & Auto Custom Carpets Made Easy

Kevin Shaw

July 19, 2023

Our kit came to us from Auto Custom Carpets – or ACC to most of us – through our friends at YearOne. While we had gone a darker shade previously, the factory color for our ...

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Brakes & Suspension

Gallery: Project Brazen ’69 Charger Gets Baer SS4+ Front Discs

Chris Holley

January 18, 2023

Many car enthusiasts get the go-fast part of the performance build completed, or at least in the works, long before tackling how to stop safely. The vintage muscle cars often had front drum brakes, which ...

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Brazen – '69 Dodge Charger

Gallery: Project Brazen Gets A Gear Vendors Under/Overdrive

Kent Will

November 28, 2022

Three gears and a 1:1 final drive ratio just don’t cut it anymore. At the same time, it’s gotten more and more difficult to find an automatic transmission that both physically fits and holds up ...

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Brazen – '69 Dodge Charger

Gallery: Brazen Gets Plate Light, Glove Box Lock, and Passenger ...

Chris Holley

October 4, 2022

Project vehicles never really reach a completion point, so when an owner states, “I am adding the final touches,” know there will be many more to come. Often, a final touch means replacing factory mechanisms ...

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Brazen – '69 Dodge Charger

Project Brazen Update: TCI Diablo Shifter Upgrade; Meguiar’s 1-Step Paint ...

Kevin Shaw

September 3, 2020

Needless to say, 2020 has not gone according to plan for pretty much everything and everyone. What we had planned for Mopar Connection’s first project car – “Brazen” – our ’69 Dodge Charger [FYI, it’s ...

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Brazen – '69 Dodge Charger

Gallery: Brazen Charger Tail Panel Restoration, Organisol Repaint & New ...

Kevin Shaw

January 31, 2020

Fixing old mistakes can be as much of a part of building a project car as the building itself. Many of these machines are half a century old, and over the course of that lifespan, ...

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Brazen – '69 Dodge Charger

Gallery: Diagnosing Less Common Causes For Starter Failures With Powermaster

Kevin Shaw

November 1, 2017

Here’s the deal: in the last two years, Mopar Connection‘s long term “Brazen” project ’69 Dodge Charger R/T has consistently devoured starter motors; and not just one or two, but six of ’em. The damage ...

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Show Coverage

Gallery: 2017 Chip Foose Edition Braselton Bash at Year One

Kevin Shaw

September 21, 2017

Earlier that week, Hurricane Irma was supposed to bulldoze western Florida clean like a dry erase board. Thankfully – and miraculously – the single-strongest Category 5 hurricane on record deflated to a Category 2 right ...

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Brazen – '69 Dodge Charger

Gallery: Wicked Wedge of The South 535ci Stroker Top End ...

Kevin Shaw

April 20, 2015

To be fair, calling our stump-pulling torque-monster of a 535 cubic inch 440 Wedge a “junkyard build” would be partially, if not completely, an outright lie. Although we did fish our low mileage, HP-casting 440 ...

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Brazen – '69 Dodge Charger

Gallery: Wicked Wedge of The South 535ci Stroker Bottom End ...

Kevin Shaw

March 10, 2015

Horsepower versus torque. It’s a battle as old as Ford versus Chevy (because factoring Mopar into the argument isn’t even a question). When it came time to outline what our fateful project car – the ...

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