If you've ever wondered what it's like to ride with the wind in your hair and bugs up your nose, just jump on one of the new ; it's a wild ride that's going to get wilder, so let us crank up the pedal power by installing a front wheel disc brake system at the
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In most cases, when building a model car of any kind, you will probably have to do a little bodywork to achieve the look of divine immaculate perfection. Whether your bodywork may be filling a low spot, crevice or doing a totally unique and creative custom job
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Models: Action figures Bumpin' Betty and Sergeant Slam
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A few issues ago in LRB (Summer '03 to be exact), we featured a scruffy guy named "Fat Mark" (his legal last name is Mark Kaake, Jr.) and his surf buddy/business partner Josh Knight. These two life's-a-beach kinda guys set out to build fiberglass fenders for 2
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When it comes to model builders, one of the greats would be David Anthony Garcia of Santa Fe Springs, California. LRB had the great honor of being invited to his shop, Drag-N Shop, which is known for producing top-notch customized vehicles, as well as full-cus
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In response to Editor Nathan Trujillo's request for a tech article specifically related to SUVs, we found the diecast model and some customizing accessories at Toy Castle at the Eastridge Mall in San Jose, California. Proprietor Tony Nguyen was very helpful in
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We here at LRB have recently been receiving letters asking us how to do Bondo body filler modifications to customize bike frames. So we paid a visit to Joseph Garcia at the Drag-N-Shop in Santa Fe Springs, California, to see if he would give us a crash course
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Meet Mark Kaake and Josh Knight, two young business entrepreneurs who collaborated on a cool idea that we thought you readers might want to know about. Mark is an urban marketing and graphics guy at 77 Records, while Josh has plenty of experience as a fibergla
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As our Spring 2001 issue comes out, we decided to do some serious model business. David Anthony Garcia of Drag-N-Shop in Santa Fe Springs, California, and I looked around for the best stuff and came up with this tech. Actually, we stumbled upon this tech while
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In the new age of lowriding, we have a lot of imports hitting the streets of the US. Some of these are stock, and some are fully tricked out from front to back and side to side. These new-age lowrider cars are pretty cool and plenty of modelers want to know ho
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As part of our never-ending quest to take our readers to greater heights and new limits with our tech pieces, we hooked up with Pedalers West in San Fernando, California, to show how to lift a bike or trike. Co-owner George Mirzoian was just the guy to show us
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My name is Mike Tellez, and I have been building and painting model cars and trucks for about 15 years. I have been known as a professional modeler for more than nine years and have had my share of awards and magazine coverage in publications such as Lowrider
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