For Corvette lovers, opinions about the C4 vary greatly. Some people loved the high-performance vehicle that gave domestic and foreign racing competitors a run for their money, while other more traditional Corvette buyers were less fond of the model. The C4 was made from 1984 to 1996 and went through an overhaul of features from the three previous Corvette models, which by and large all remained very similar to the…
Suspension Evolution Installing Aldan American coil over suspension on 1988-96 Corvettes By Cam Benty The C4 Corvette was state of the art for its time. With fiberglass transverse leaf springs and aluminum A-arms front and back, it was a technological leap forward for the Corvette platform. Today, these cars offer a great bang for the buck with supreme affordability and solid performance. Aldan American’s engineering team knows just how exhilarating…
Camaro has been a popular car since it rolled out in 1966 for the ’67 model year. It was Chevy’s answer to the Ford Mustang, which had debuted a few years earlier. From the beginning, Camaro was intended not just to challenge Mustang but to better it. The second-generation Camaro spanned 12 years, 1970 to 1981. In 1981, Chevy sold 126,000 units, but the feeling was that Chevy was still…
The “Urban”? No…the K5 Blazer. Sometimes a new star is born not out of innovation, but from catching up to the competition. That’s the story behind one of the most popular sport-utility vehicles ever made: the Chevy Blazer. 1966 Bronco Half CabImage Courtesy of Garret Harmola of Aldan American In 1966, Ford introduced the Ford Bronco, their first in the compact off-road category. But the Bronco was in response to…
The 1994 Aldan American C1500 Build is back in the Shock Lab! The full feature of this build can be found in Classic Truck Performance Magazine where we teamed up with Wilwood brakes, Wilwoods new pro spindle/drop spindle, Stone Fab control arms, Rock Jock sway bars, Western Chassis and Falken tires to get the 5/7 drop we were looking for on our OBS. Parts used on this build: Wilwood: https://www.wilwood.com…
James White is 41 years old and from the San Gabriel Valley CA. James’s Instagram page, @626Chevelle, posts muscle car builds, performance parts and races. James recently came to the Aldan Studio with his Aldan-equipped 1999 Chevy 2DR Tahoe. When James isn’t cruising around in the Tahoe you can find him in his ’68 Chevelle. His 1968 Chevelle has been heavily modified with a cammed LS2 with AFR heads, Tremec…
Like every other industry, the automotive industry stirs competition, and with it innovation…along with one-upmanship and taking an idea to the next level. A lot of all that led to the Chevrolet El Camino, which debuted in 1959. But how the El Camino came about is an interesting tale, filled with some pretty exciting twists and turns. It wasn’t the first pickup-in-a-car in America—and that’s not because the Ford Ranchero…
How the first RS, SS and Z/28 Camaros came about. General Motors was pretty much flat-footed when Ford rolled out its sporty, two-door, long-hood, short-deck Mustang in 1964. Mustang sales soared. At the end of the 1965 model year, Ford had sold nearly half a million Mustangs. GM didn’t have anything in its showrooms to match the Mustang. The only thing GM had was the Chevy II, which included the…
There’s a good chance you don’t know what Chevy’s ad campaign for the Silverado is right now. Or what the past few advertising campaigns have been over the past 17 years. And that would be understandable because none of them have been that memorable. Not like the advertising campaign that ran for 13 years, ending in 2004…one of the longest-running advertising campaigns in history. Called “Like a Rock,” it was…
The 454 SS Pickup Was Hot Back Then and Still Turns Heads The fourth-generation Chevy trucks, 1988-2002, were built on what Chevy called the GMT400 platform. It didn’t have a special name designation attached to it, like the previous third-generation “Round Line,” for example. Chevy wanted to up its game when it came to their new pickup line, or change the game entirely. Chevrolet General Manager Robert Burger made a…