title: Building Hot Rods: 30 Years of Advice from Fatman Fabrication's Brent VanDervort (Hot Rod Basics)
author: Brent Vandervort
description: Brent Vandervort holds both a mechanical engineering degree and a business management degree. As owner of Fatman Fabrications, Brent has designed and developed the various chassis parts and kits sold by his company. Fourteen years ago he began writing a technical column for the <i>Goodguys Gazette</i>, the monthly magazine of the Goodguys Rod & Custom Association. In addition, he's written numerous articles for consumer magazines like <i>Street Rodder</i>. When he's not designing suspension components Brent like to tinker with another type of hot rodWWII airplanes.
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  # Heavenly Thingamajig
  
  
  ## Whether you like it or not
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Shelly Briggs
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # Copyright
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  HEAVENLY THINGAMAJIG - Whether you like it or not
  
  
  Part 1 of the HEAVENLY THINGAMAJIG series
  
  
  © 2021
  
  
  Peter Gregg
  
  
  c/o Shelly Briggs
  
  
  Roding am Bahnhof 7
  
  
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  Cover design: HollandDesign
  
  
  hollanddesign@gmx.de
  
  
  facebook.com/hollanddesign
  
  
  using New York City Manhattan
  
  
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  Proofreading: Lisa Brehm
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 1](part0004_split_000.html#3Q280-0955c81351474175971906541c38515c)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 2](part0005_split_000.html#4OIQ0-0955c81351474175971906541c38515c)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 3](part0006_split_000.html#5N3C0-0955c81351474175971906541c38515c)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 4](part0007_split_000.html#6LJU0-0955c8135147417