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Restoration

Gallery: Muscle Car Restorations Reassembles A Fully Restored ‘Cuda

Mark Ehlen

February 7, 2025

The dream is almost realized. All the previous effort has finally come down to this. It’s time for Muscle Car Restorations (MCR) to bring all of the individual restored parts back together to create what ...

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Interior

Gallery: See How MCR Restores The Interior of This ’70 ...

Mark Ehlen

January 24, 2025

For the past few months, we’ve been documenting how Musclecar Restorations rebuilt owner John Balow’s 1970 Plymouth ‘Cuda. If you haven’t caught the previous segments, we encourage to see how this project began, following each ...

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Shop Tours

Gallery: Touring Noel Automotive’s Mopar Restoration Shop

David Kruk

January 20, 2025

Recently, we stopped in to take a tour of Noel Automotive, a shop in West Branch, Iowa that specializes in Mopar restorations. If you have never heard of Noel Automotive, maybe you are familiar with ...

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Buzzkill – '70 Dodge Super Bee

Gallery: Classic Industries Freshens Up This 1970 Super Bee

David Kruk

January 8, 2025

Today, our 1970 Dodge Super Bee receives new front grille inserts, rear window molding, and sail panels from Classic Industries and OER. The grille inserts in this car have been repaired many times after being ...

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New Products

AMD’s New Reproduction Trunk Lid Hinge Pivot Arms for 68-70 ...

Kevin Shaw

December 20, 2024

Many a Mopar enthusiast bemoans that seemingly any Mustang or Camaro can be built strictly using a catalog and narrowly zero OEM parts or materials. Well, if you’re one of those to feel as we ...

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Paint & Body

Gallery: This ’68 Super Bee Gets a Sweet Second Half ...

David Kruk

November 25, 2024

Here at Mopar Connection Magazine, we work on a lot of projects. This one was actually the car that got this author interested in Mopars at an early age: a true factory 1968 Dodge Super ...

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Plumbing

Gallery: Revamping a 1970 Dodge Challenger with AMD’s Catalog of ...

Cody Krueger

November 22, 2024

Over the years, Auto Metal Direct (AMD) has worked very hard to produce brand new reproduction sheet metal to replace all of the rusty parts on your Mopar. They proudly offer practically everything you would ...

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New Products

Auto Metal Direct Announces New ’73-’74 Charger Full Quarter Panels

Darryl Smith

October 31, 2024

Hey, all you 1973 and 1974 Dodge Charger owners, AMD has answered our prayers with the much-anticipated, full-quarter panel replacement panels! No longer will you have to search for a nice donor car to rob ...

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Tech

Gallery: US Car Tool Makes Removing Your Drivetrain Too Easy

David Kruk

October 24, 2024

When Chrysler originally installed the drivetrain in the Mopar, they slid the power plant in from the bottom already bolted on to the K-member. So sometimes when people remove the engines, they’ll lift them out ...

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Paint & Body

Gallery: How Musclecar Restorations Lays Down Color & Clear on ...

Mark Ehlen

October 15, 2024

Everything so far has built up to this moment! This is where things start to really get exciting. All of the metal and bodywork have led to this moment when the sheet metal gets pretty. ...

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