Our friend Brandon, Vice President of The North Texas El Camino Group, was recently featured on Gas Monkey Garage’s YouTube channel to showcase his 1980 G-Body El Camino, AKA The Steel Beast. This G-Body is a full-out sleeper with a built motor and our new coilover suspension installed. Brandon reached out to Aldan American looking for tunable, bolt in G-body coilover shocks that would support both street and track use….

Sergeant Scott Graham is a 29 year veteran of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and operates one unbelievable Hemi Barracuda. He has worked in various capacities within the Sheriff’s department, and is currently assigned to the Narcotics Bureau.  Scott has been racing and building cars since High School. We thank Sergeant Graham and the LA County Sheriff’s Department for their service. Check out the Barracuda’s build specs and features…

The paint on this Pantera is unreal. Did it make it to the Nationals? The Pantera De Tomaso, designed by Tom Tjaarda is a timeless, early American Supercar. Ilene and Ken F. set out to build a beautiful 1972 Pantera Pre-L car. This Pantera De Tomaso was under the gun to compete in the National Street Rod Associations, “Elite Builders Showcase” at the “Street Rod Nationals” in Louisville Kentucky last month….

One of our local clients was looking to lower their 73′ Camaro. With our new Road Comp Series of GM coilovers, we set out to help them lower their Camaro and setup their suspension for better handling and a smoother ride (Also looking to bring down the front end on this Z/28). “We would like to touch base with the guys at Aldan and give them a great big two thumbs up….

I grew up obsessed with cars, trucks & motorcycles and always had an interest in manufacturing. For over three decades, The Aldan Shock Co. was U.S. Veteran owned & operated, specializing in high performance shocks & coilovers here in Southern California. While working at Hot Rod I made a cold call that would forever change my life. In 2014, at 27 years old, I quit my job and struck a deal to…

Slalom, 100 yd dash and road course running in our C-10. How’d it go? The team at Super Chevy Magazine selected our freshly built 1971 C-10 pickup to run at this year’s Muscle Car Challenge presented by Falken Tire & Classic Industries. Event took place at the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California. Some of you may know my brother and I set out to build a C10 pickup truck…

The Aldan American C10 pickup truck competed in our first official event this week. The front suspension setup is a Scotts Hot Rods IFS (Independent Front Suspension). The Scott’s bolt-on IFS fits directly to stock Chevrolet C10 frames and is an all in one unit that allowed team Aldan to run Wilwood disc brakes, drop spindles, Aldan American coilover shocks and springs along with rack & pinion steering and an…

Our friend Gary recently lent us his original 1969 El Camino SS 396 for a suspension install feature with Chevy High Performance Magazine. Gary’s owned this 69′ El Camino for several years and was looking to drive it more, but wanted a better ride and a lower stance from what was originally on the vehicle. Being an original 396 SS car – having a bolt-on coilover design was a plus…

Chrysler (Dodge) has always been known to step outside the box when it comes to design, unique color combinations and big horsepower. In the early 90’s you had the Corvette, 5.0 Mustang, IROC Camaro’s and your German and Italian sports cars. 200-300HP in a production car were huge, until Dodge changed the game with the Gen I Viper in 1992 sporting 400HP an a monster 8.0L V10 backed with a…

It’s heating up here on the west coast and we’re heading up to Reno, Nevada for the 2017 Hot August Nights car show. The Aldan American team will be setting up at this year’s Big Boy’s Toy Store hosted by Summit Racing located at the Reno Events Center in downtown Reno. See thousands of the country’s finest hot rods, muscle cars and high horsepower machines. We’ll be at the Big Boy’s Toy Store Wednesday…