The second Wildcat was far more radical and sports car-like than the first model from only a year earlier. The “II” rode on a 100-inch (Corvette platform?) wheelbase… continue reading »
Seventeen years ago today, I uploaded an html file to the servers at Prodigy and The Jalopy Journal was born. I had been toying around with HTML at… continue reading »
Sometime early in 1951, Delvan Lee went into a buddy’s dealership in Detroit, MI and took delivery of a bright blue and Cad powered J2 Allard. For the… continue reading »
From its beginning in the horseless carriage shop in Norwalk, Ohio (hence the logo), to its final sale to General Motors, the Fisher Body Company was built by… continue reading »
There has been talk of resurrecting the Santa Maria Drag Strip for over a year now, but sufficient funds and a new location are still very much up… continue reading »
As much as the lakebeds of El Mirage or the salt flats of Bonneville pushed men to make faster cars out West in the 1930s, 40s and 50s,… continue reading »
This is mostly off topic and I told him as much, but “LB+1” kept pushing. He posted the story the other day and it was quickly hammered away… continue reading »
In 1950, Byron Boji and a few of his buddies loaded up in Chicago and headed for Bonneville. You can only imagine the excitement as a bunch of… continue reading »
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