Wood gain dash kits add an air of elegance to a car, but not every car comes with wood grain.  Sometimes due to lack in funds or just the ridiculous overhead that car sales people tend to tack on when you add astethic upgrades, you never get that luxury look and feel.

The Dash Trim Kit Store offers more than a dozen different wood grain finishes for over 1,000 car makes/models.  If you were ever thinking of upgrading your car with a high quality wood dash kit, you can get one for as little as $150.00.

Then the inside of your car can look like this….

With an easy to use kit matching system, it’s not hard to see why people are adding these small touches.

Not only can you select various wood grain patterned and colored trims, but you can also select from other styles as well.

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BlindingHID is an online store providing low cost HID lighting kits and HID lighting related products. They have the capability of matching you with a cost-effective kit based on your bulb size or by car make & model.

Installing an HID kit is meant to be an easy process that converts your standard automotive lighting into high intensity Xenon Halide lighting. HID kits can range anywhere from $30 – $128 depending on manufacturing, car model, lumens, etc.

HID lights are not standard on most vehicles, hence the need for a kit which includes ballasts, mounts, bulbs, and wiring.

BlindingHID has ensured an excellent product in providing a high quality conversion kit, at an affordable price point, that includes a warranty and surefire easy installation.

Wondering what an HID lighting kit could do for your car?

After following a heated discussion on Modded Mustangs about the cost relationship and burnout rate of Xenon head lights vs. Ultra Whites by Panasonic, I managed to grab a picture of a sweet upgrade on a Mustang.

This kit apparently cost this guy $150 plus shipping. Did I mention, shipping in the U.S. is free at BlindingHID.com?

The primary allure to these lights isn’t just the cool blue tint, but truly, the ability to see further in extremely dark driving environments. High end luxury and sports cars come standard with HIDs for better night time driving.

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HIDs seem like a good investment and BlindingHID offers a competitive pricing structure, free shipping, warranty, and various assistive tools to make your DIY install that much easier.

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This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Tony’s Pizza. All opinions are 100% mine.

To all the bloggers who have been following us here at SpeedUpTraffic.org and all the car afficianados, thank you and keep posting. As we’ve grown we’ve noticed others noticing us. Today I’d like to personally thank Tony’s Pizza for sending the SpeedUpTraffic team some pretty tasty eats. I personally got a pepperoni pizza. I enjoy crispy edges, so baked according to the directions, however mine turned out semi-crispy. Did I mention that I don’t like burnt crust….hence the reason the pizza turned out quasi-crispy.

If you’re thinking about cheap eats, that are fast, tasty and easy on the go…I’d definitely recommend trying out Tony’s. Now, here’s what I did though, so you can’t hold it against me. I’m a cheese freak, so I added about 2 handfuls of mozarella to the pizza. Also, you should realize, that for $1.75, it’s pretty big for a personal pizza…I’d say it measures up to an inch or so smaller than a standard small pizza. I actually shared mine, but if you share it…it’s only a treat, not really a meal.

So since Tony’s was nice enough to give me 3 for myself and a few to give away to others to try…I did! For those who received the free tasty treat…please go ahead and post what you thought. The overall value alone is a bargain, so it actually tasting good was a surprise. Especially for someone who hasn’t liked pizza since I was 21 and papa john’s was by far the only available pizza, next to mad mushroom around Purdue.

1 reader, if you tweet this post and respond via the comments, will receive the remaining freebie pizza!

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Ok, so I find it unbearably funny, that people still don’t understand why it’s important to drive safely.  Now, understandably, there are people who can reserve the right to drive any way they choose, however, as many of our posts have covered….MOST people should think twice before getting behind the wheel.  Let alone owning and operating a motor vehicle.  So I’m browsing through various news bits when I read this:

Cellphone Curbs May Not Decrease Car Crashes…

WASHINGTON—Laws that forbid motorists from using hand-held phones or texting while driving don’t appear to result in a significant decrease in vehicle crashes, according to a new study by the Highway Loss Data Institute expected to be released Friday.

The study, expected to be released at a conference in Washington, D.C., Friday, comes amid stepped-up efforts by federal highway-safety regulators to ban texting while driving and curb other forms of driver distraction. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood earlier this week announced rules to forbid commercial truck and bus drivers from text messaging while driving. Mr. LaHood has said he would ban all texting while driving if he could…Read the rest here.

So, riddle me this….

If driving isn’t enough of a distraction and we’re going to try and disprove the fact that just about anything you do, outside of paying attention to the road poses as a distraction…how do we explain crap like this?

If anything, we should be telling people how much everything you do is a distraction and how they should pay attention to the road, that’s why we impose crazy laws…because people abuse our freedoms.

After I saw this, I went to shop for better auto insurance, and found some pretty  cheap auto insurance quotes on a site named Cheap Auto Insurance…go figure.  Put in my zip, got a listing of top providers in my location, and was happy to find that my insurer was listed already.  Since I tend to drive fast, I like to get quotes every 6 months ($$$ save that money for sweet upgrades to my Solara!)

It makes me scared that nutjobs like these are out there spouting statistics that don’t make logical sense.  Don’t drink and drive, buckle your seatbelt…and most of all….lol, make sure you’re driving legal.  The license suspension and hella fines are totally not worth it!

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Ever thought about how bad ass your car would be if you had an in-dash DVD screen with player and remote?  You see tons of images in hot car magazines boasting some pretty high end stuff.

For example, check out this out:


Would you believe that you could do this same setup for under $300?!

As mom always said, you gotta look for the bargains….The weak customer chooses the understandable rack.

Yeah, I don’t know what that means either, but check out this install video and snag this kit, for anywhere from $189 -- $239.

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1953 DeSoto Station Wagon – Copperhead SRT53 We take a look at the Taylor family’s future Power Tour ride After attending the ‘08 Power Tour(r) in Little Rock, Arkansas, hot rod builder Dennis Taylor (Dennis Taylor’s Reproductions) and his wife, Debbie, decided they wanted to be part of the fun. Unfortunately, they didn’t own a good road trip-ready rod. Noticing how easy it is to become lost among the thousands of similar muscle cars and hot rods on the Tour, Dennis decided to be as unique as possible and resurrect a ‘53 De-Soto wagon. Dennis fabricated a new chassis, building everything from the control arms to the rearend housing. To get it as low as the rendering by Brian Stupski of Studio PCK (problemchildkustoms.com), the body was channeled over the new frame, and Air Ride Technologies bags brought it the rest of the way to the ground.

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1953 DeSoto Station Wagon – Copperhead SRT53

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2009 HOT ROD of the Year – Grade A 1930 Ford Model A Rookie rod builder Bill Steele’s ‘30 Ford Model A is the Goodguys 2009 Hot Rod of the Year You’re not going to believe this, but this stellar ‘30 Model A is Bill Steele’s first complete rod build. We’re not suggesting that Bill just fell off the truck yesterday with a crescent wrench and a claw hammer-the 38-year-old collision shop owner is a hands-on bodyman and painter and an accomplished custom bike builder as well. He’s done a number of partial buildups, “cars already started by someone else-that kind of stuff,” as he puts it. “But this one is my first car done completely from start to finish,” he swears up and down

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2009 HOT ROD of the Year – Grade A 1930 Ford Model A

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Super Street Series – Street-Legal Cup Car Jeffrey’s Custom Conversions Builds A Race Car With A License Plate We’ve all seen the cheesy Thunderbirds and Monte Carlos painted up to look like NASCAR Sprint Cup cars, but this is something completely different. This is the Super Street Series (SSS) produced by Jeffrey’s Custom Conversions (www.jeffreyscustomconversions.com), and it’s no OEM stocker parading around like a racer. In fact, this is a nearly purebred race car tuned down enough to make it survivable-and legal-on the street. Jeffrey’s builds every car to order from scratch with 60 percent of the same components as the Cup guys use, and each gets its own VIN. That means there are no hassles trying to get a VIN transferred from an old donor car

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Super Street Series – Street-Legal Cup Car

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1969 Chevrolet Chevelle – Took A Chance DNA Restorations turned an eBay gamble into a ‘69 Chevelle show car in short order Online auto auctions are a crapshoot, since you have to trust that what the seller describes is true. Often, it’s not. But Dave Sherer and Anthony Musilli of DNA Restorations (Dave and Anthony, get it?) got lucky when they decided to roll the dice on a ‘69 Chevelle project car located in Colorado (they’re from New York). Because it had no engine, trans, or rearend and lived in a snowy climate, it was a risk, but when the Chevelle was delivered, they happily found it wasn’t a wrecked rust bucket. It wasn’t exactly nice, either

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1969 Chevrolet Chevelle – Took A Chance

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Top Gear Richard Hammond Talks about his car crash Part 2

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Top Gear Richard Hammond car crash Part 2/2 (HD)

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