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breakingfor.parts: a marketplace for parts, projects and more

breakingfor.parts bills itself as your new go-to online marketplace for spare parts, as well as project and parts cars.

It’s happening: new Honda CRX replacement parts

Second-gen Honda CRX or Civic need a replacement bumper cover, bumper lamp or hood? A company called FF Motion has you covered–with more parts in the works.

How one fan restored a crashed F1 race car

Can a crashed F1 car really be brought back to racing condition–and without the nearly unlimited resources of an F1 team?

Watch us turn this pile of parts into a rare vintage racer

Did you know we're in the middle of restoring a one-of-30 Elva Mk VI–that's also a long-lost Sebring 12-Hour entry?

How To Find Your Next Project Car—and Finish It, Too

Looking for your next—or perhaps first—project car, but don’t know where to start?

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Shop Work: Four lessons learned after a lifetime of roadside repairs

What do container ships and project cars have in common? Both often require their mechanical issues to be diagnosed and repaired on the fly.

Shop Work: My new favorite thing: Tamper detection paste

Can a paint pen indicate a loose fastener? Yes, but we've found a solution that's better dedicated to the task: Tamper detection paste.

Shop Work: How to fabricate your own brackets using a hammerform

New parts didn't come with the correct brackets? You can make your own with a simple hammer form. Here's how.

Electronics & Electrical Systems: How to wire a car from scratch

Wiring a car from scratch doesn’t have to be a daunting project.

Shop Work: Get a quality finish out of a budget respray | From the Archives

While we had this Volvo 142S resprayed at a local budget paint shop, we maximized the results by doing the right prep work beforehand.

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Restoration project car updates

Missing bodywork? No problem. Here’s how we recreated it.

Our Elva Mk VI sports racer always has something hiding for us. The latest: While finishing the bodywork, we had to deal with the radiator intakes.

Before priming and painting, strengthening our Elva’s worn fiberglass

Our poor Elva. Its fiberglass body had been repeatedly beaten over the decades–a crack here, a quick repair there.

It was time to turn our attention back …

What it took to obtain period-correct wheels for our Elva

A car needs wheels, right? Our Elva sports racer came with a few rear wheels but only one front–and a trike this is not.

We couldn’t just …

How we solved our surprisingly complicated issue with studs and lugs

Must every little thing on our Elva sports racer be such a project?

Yes. Everything.

Our car came with front hubs, but of course something was wrong. …

How we made our dashboard look the part with gauges and switches

We rebuilt our Elva’s dashboard. Now we needed to fill it with the necessary gauges, switches and that all-important serial number plate.

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