This 1973 Chevy Impala donk convertible looks as clean as one could imagine. Recently spotted in the “Hood” section of Rides Magazine, the car features a Universal Car Lifts suspension package riding above 28 inch forged rims. A long time Rides Mag fan, the owner was on a high after seeing his whip featured in…
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Rides Magazine RN Customs “A&W Root Beer”
Springfield, Illinois puts out some insane custom whips. A good reason behind most of the big wheeled, big money cruisers in the city is provided by a local shop known as RN Customs. The good people at Rides Magazine recently put the spot on RN Customs by doing a feature story on their operation. Rides…
Donk, Box, & Bubble Magazine Featured Product Front Wheel Drive Kit
Donk, Box & Bubble Magazine recently featured our custom front wheel drive lift struts. We have these struts available for most front wheel drive cars on the road. Installation is simple and a detailed instruction manual is included. When lifting a front wheel drive car, the biggest problem most installers run in to is the…
Lowrider Magazine August 2009 Featured Product Magnum Spindles
Are you looking for a solution to fit 22″, 24″, 26″, 28″, 30″ or 32″ diameter rims and tires on your Chrysler LX platform? Universal Car Lifts has extended front spindles for all year Dodge Magnum, Chrysler 300c, Dodge Challenger and Dodge Magnum. The extended front spindles allow you to run up to 32″ diameter…
Chop @ King Of Cars & Toblin Dodge 75′ Chevy Caprice
Check out this custom air ride lift kit we did that was featured in King of the Street magazine. The kit was built for TV celebrity Chop from A&E’s King of Cars TV series. His car is a 1975 Chevy Caprice Classic hard top riding on 26 inch wheels. The kit includes a custom CNC…
DJ Khaled’s 1966 Chevy Impala with Universal Car Lifts 7″ kit
Check out this 1966 Chevy Impala owned by DJ Kahled. Featuring a maroon candy paint job with ghosted checkers, the car rides smoothly on a set of DUB 26″ chrome wheels. The car is maticulously restored from top to bottom. Power is provided by a big block Chevy motor with high performance cam and custom…
Donk, Box & Bubble Magazine features Imani Sakurs 72′ Impala
Donk, Box & Bubble Magazine recently featured a beautiful metallic black 1972 donk belonging to Hollywood movie producer Imani Sakur. The donk is running 26 inch rims with low profile tires and a 12 inch complete Universal Car Lifts kit. The interior of the car is completely redone in a classic style with reupholstered seats…
Rides Magazine Felix Arguelles 75′ Caprice Classic
Professional skateboarder Felix Arguelles recently had his 1975 Chevy Caprice donk featured in Rides Magazine. Felix is an icon in the skateboarding world, starting off in the early 1980’s in New York City. He turned pro in 1990 and has been touring the world ever since. Felix hosts some of the largest events in skateboarding…
Get Lifted: King of the Street the Movie
We recently had the opportunity to work with a movie production company in Hollywood that is working on a new full length feature film about the donk racing scene. “King of the Street” is a movie about an American donk street racer nick named “Quarter Mile”. Q was involved in the Miami street racing scene…
Hot Rod Magazine Pit Stop Tech Article
Hot Rod Magazine recommended us in this article talking about lift spacer cups for coil spring suspension systems. Universal Car Lifts sells a variety of lift spring booster cups for most vehicles on the road. We have 3 inch and 5 inch lift cups available, as well as custom size configurable cups built to any…
Gumball 3000 Race Around the World
UCL recently sponsored the first donk in the world to compete in the coveted Gumball 3000 rally. What is the Gumball 3000 rally? The event is world known and features some of the most exotic vehicles on the planet. Everything from Lamborghini Adventadors to highly customized muscle cars complete a long distance car rally often spanning…
MN Vikings Cedric Griffin’s 1990 Caprice Box
We recently had the opportunity to work with a local shop on a box Chevy Caprice belonging to MN Vikings center back Cedric Griffin. The shop, Automotive Concepts, is a full customizing facility located in the Minneapolis area that works on some incredibly sick rides. AC will do pretty much anything you can dream of, including custom…
Lowrider Magazine Features RWD Bolt-On Kit
Lowrider Magazine isn’t exactly the first thing that comes to mind when thinking of the donk scene. Looking further though, both styles of automotive customizing are using very similar vehicles. Big body cars like Chevy Caprice, Impala, Cutlass, Monte Carlo and Crown Victoria dominate both scenes. Before the donk scene took hold in the early…
T-Pain from Nappy Boy Entertainment’s 1987 Cutlass FBSS Air Ride Kit
This air ride donk kit stands out as one of the coolest custom lift kit projects we have done. Auto Extremes out of Conyers, Georgia, does all of the customizing on T-Pain’s rides. They have built his infamous ’72 Impala known as the “Joker Impala”, which is running a Universal Car Lifts 12″ complete kit. A…
Donk, Box, & Bubble Magazine Featured Product
The good people at Donk, Box & Bubble Magazine featured one of our 7″ complete kits in an article outlining the hottest new products of the year. Donk, Box & Bubble has covered the donk scene since the beginning. Some of the hottest cars to hit the streets have been featured. Now a part of…
Rides Magazine Lift Kit Install Article
Rides Magazine did a write up on how to install one of our car lift kits. The article showed a box Chevy getting a 7″ Universal Car Lifts complete kit installed. Our 7″ kit includes lift spacer cups, extended front control arms, adjustable rear trailing arms and extended shock absorbers. As an option, customers can add bushings…
T-Pain’s 67 Chevy Impala
Watch T-Pain show off his 1969 Chevy Impala in this YouTube clip. This Impala is running 26 inch rims with 275/25/R26 low profile tires. The video starts off by showing the incredible candy red paint job. The shine on this paint is ridiculous. It looks like the buffer spent hours shining it out. The interior…
www.lowridermagazine.com Featured Product of the Month
Lowrider Magazine featured our 7″ complete suspension lift kit on their website. The products displayed are a collection of their favorite new custom car products of the month. UCL complete suspension lift kits include everything you need to get the job done. Lift spacer cups are installed under the coil spring to give you the…
Rides Magazine Featured Whip Reeses Car With UCL 17″ Kit
Check out this Reeses themed 2 door donk that was featured in Rides Magazine’s coverage of the King of Kings Easter Car Show. Wille B, King Entertainment and East Side Entertainment corralled whips from all over the south for the second installment of their Easter Sunday car show at south Georgia Motorsports Park. The hefty…
Rides Magazine Donk Photo Shoot
Here is a sneak peak behind the scene of a Rides Magazine photo shoot featuring Imani Sakur’s 1972 Chevy Impala convertible. Imani’s car features a complete suspension lift kit from Universal Car Lifts. For more information on Imani’s car, check out this write up we did of his whip that was featured after the magazine…