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Where We’re Headed
t’s only been a couple months since we launched In The Garage, but man, a lot sure has transpired in the world around us, hasn’t it? We’d expected to attend a handful of events, from our initial announcement at Goodguys Del Mar to the always highly anticipated L.A. Roadsters Father’s Day Show, but as each week passes, each one has been postponed or canceled altogether. Understandable, absolutely—but sad nonetheless. We just want the opportunity to get out in front of people and reconnect the names with faces … just to emphasize that while the magazine may be new, the people behind it are anything but!
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Really Fauxtina
s long as I can remember (lately that isn’t all that long), when I come across an old paintjob—you know the look—the patina appearance speaks volumes about the age of the truck. It gives a peek into its age measured in decades, quality of life, and whether or not the owner had given it proper care and attention. A patina-“dressed” truck is its “badge of courage” and I can remember staring at one dent, scratch, chip, or any other of its life’s accumulation trying to imagine what it must have been used for or what chore it accomplished on this day to gather such an adornment.
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Classic Truck Performance. August/September 2020, Vol 1, No 2 is published bi-monthly by In The Garage Media. 1350 E. Chapman Ave. #6650, Fullerton, CA 92834-6550.
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Chevy 3100
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f at first you don’t succeed, try, try again has applications in practically everything we do in our daily lives … and sometimes it even rings true for these old trucks we often devote our lives—and untold amounts of money—toward! Case in point: Andy Simms’ 1953 Chevy Advance-Design (AD) 3100.
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Chevy 3100
Photography by Tim Sutton
f at first you don’t succeed, try, try again has applications in practically everything we do in our daily lives … and sometimes it even rings true for these old trucks we often devote our lives—and untold amounts of money—toward! Case in point: Andy Simms’ 1953 Chevy Advance-Design (AD) 3100.
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I pity those of you over the age of 50 (maybe even younger?!) who don’t have any kids to help you navigate modern computer electronics—without my teenage son, I’d be lost when it comes to many things in this virtual world we live in! That said, I will be the first to acknowledge the vast advancements the performance aftermarket has made in recent years with everything from drivetrain components to instrumentation—especially the latter.
Not so long ago, Dakota Digital was known for primarily just what their name implies: blue LED digital gauges. Today, while Dakota still offers their proprietary instrumentation, they’ve made leaps and bounds in technological advancements, to the point where it’s almost as if they took two steps back instead of forward—and that’s a good thing! Why, you ask? Well, one look at their line of HDX (and the newly released RTX) digital-analog factory-retrofit gauges for the Chevy C10 truck series (the entire line!) and you’d think they’d recreated the stock instrument clusters … that is until you turned the ignition on for the first time and really got an in-depth look at what’s actually behind those beautiful analog gauge faces.
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