Winters in Austin, TEXAS couldn’t be any better suited for a reliability run. The weather is mild, the skies are incredibly big and blue, and the scenery of the hill country just can’t be beat. Mix all of that up in a pot with some great folks and a grouping of killer cars and you [...]
Austin Reliability
Posted on February 16th, 2009 by Ryan
Filed under: Event Coverage
Filed under: Event Coverage
The Jalopy Journal is 15…
It’s December of 1994 and I’m at home for Christmas break. I had taken up HTML and decided to build a hot rod website. I obsessed over the site for weeks, but by January I was ready to “launch.” While sitting in my dorm room at the University of Oklahoma, I hit the “publish button” [...]
Hot Rod Speedsters
Reggie sent over a video yesterday that I thought you guys would enjoy. It’s titled “Hot Rod Speedsters,” but I think it’s actually a compilation piece of a number of different motion pictures. Some of these you have undoubtly seen, but muscle through them one more time as you never know what unseen piece of [...]
Liberation
Don Moyer is a good pal and a great thinker. He’s one of those guys that seems to own just about everything and just about everything he owns seems to have time tested personality. That’s why I was a little surprised to read about his street rod Olds. Done with a 90′s era sense of [...]
Time & Speed
Otto Crocker was a watchmaker from San Diego with a keen interest in all things fast. By marrying his two passions (time and speed), Otto did a lot of firsts… He was the first drag strip timer with mechanical consistency, the first timer of the Bonneville Nationals, and the first to time on water accurately. [...]
Axle And Li’l Axle And The Dago Deuce
Not until John Buttera gave rodding the gift of machined billet aluminum in the ’70s would a piece of hardware impact the look and character of hot rods as much as the Dago axle did in the late ’40s. Given the nickname of the town from whence it came, San Diego – “Dago” – the [...]
The Unibody Roadster Dissected
Alex has been one of our tech editors for around a decade or so. He’s one of those guys that has a very rare combinations of talents. Not only is he a capable fabricator, but he’s also incredibly creative/innovative, has an eye for the right lines, and a deep passion for tradition – both american [...]
The Jade Idol
So at around 7:30 or 8 tonight, a group of guys are meeting at a local hamburger joint for food and drink. From there, they will bomb down Guadalupe Street, track over to South Congress, and finally stop at the world famous Continental Club. Inside, Little Bobby Bleed and Mark Ford will be setting up [...]
A Young Man Of Speed
Josh Higgens is a mechanic over at the Amocat Speed Emporium in Puyallup, WA. On his off time, he’s been working on a purposeful ’29 roadster over at a pal’s work shop. Our tech editor, Paul, just happened to stop by to a get a glimpse of the rear engined speedster and was completely taken [...]
Through the years we’ve had some pretty amazing articles pop up here on The Jalopy Journal. The following is just a few of them:
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Tom Cobbs
The story of Tom Cobbs, his legacy, and his hot rod roadster. Read: Part 1, Part 2, or Part 3.
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The Bob Roddick Story
The story of a set of lost photos that literally take us all back into time. Read: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, or Part 4.
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The Ferrari Shoot
Comparing and contrasting three very different cars with three very different purposes in life. Read It >>
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Inspiration
This post is actually a continuation of two other posts that were written in 2006 (Part 1 & 2). The stuff you guys came up with is breathtaking.
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Gary Howard
Gary is one of my heroes and after interviewing him, I got to check off an item from my dream list. Read It >>