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Prepping For Autocross


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Before you arrive at the event make sure your car is ready for action. An autocross event moves quickly and there is little time for mechanical preparation during the day.

Your car needs to be “right on” with only minor tire pressure, shock and alignment changes needing to be made. Basically a few psi up or down, a few clicks on adjustable shocks or a small front toe change are all you will have time to do. Funny enough, the real improvement in time comes from the driver.

Smoother throttle, brake, and steering application and looking farther ahead will usually gain you a more time than wrenching on your car.

Full photo spread and Car Detail on page 184.

Shop Tour

feb_st Hot Rod Chassis & Cycle

The name Hot Rod Chassis & Cycle gets right to the point. For over six years the crew at HRC&C have been building cars and turning out top-notch fabrication work. What’s more, they prefer to work on pre-1964 hot rods and customs and most any kind of racecar.

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8th Midwestern Nats

MWN_artworkGood times, cool cars, great food, and a racetrack? The 8th annual Midwestern Nationals had it all. Held in Kansas City, KS there was no shortage of adventure to be had. The September weather was perfect for viewing a couple thousand cars and the sprawling infield of the Kansas Speedway made taking in the sights fun and easy.
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3rd Chigacoland Nats

CLN_artworkIn 1895 the first gasoline-powered automobile race was held up and down the Chicago lakefront, forever cementing Illinois into the history books as a shaper of motorsports history. The Route 66 Raceway opened in 1998 with a state-of-the-art dragstrip and a half-mile dirt oval.
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MWN Pick

MWN_pick_sm Jake Arial and his wife Michel are no strangers to building and showing cars. Through the years they’ve done it all, from boats, to bikes to cars. Jake began, like most guys, on model cars before graduating to bicycles.

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About The Editor

Kirk Jones, Gazette Publisher / Editor in Chief, has been on with the Goodguys since 2002. Kirk steered the Gazette into a Hot Rodding industry icon with modern design, improved layout, increased advertising opportunities and more features the readers want. 

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