The Jalopy Journal
In the 60s and 70s everybody i knew in IL. and N.J. named theres after a song.But then again we were hard core Racers Never seen a car named after...
Numbers matching. Who cares if you want that you are not a rodder ,you are a restorer.
IL will give a ticket for loud pipes.If a cop has a slow day you will get one.
Many times you put a chevy in a ford was flathead rear sump,chevy rear sumpford small block front sump.A lot easier to put a chevy in a 1950s...
Big Bruiser toy truck .Had flashing lights and a car that you could put a crushed fender on and a flat tire on. Then put a good fender on and a...
A true Hotrodder never asks.Yuppies who sit in a office and wear rubber gloves while building cars would ask.
Look at a copy of street scene from the 70s.NSRA mag.
Any that were channeled.
Bad luck on a green race car was at indy. Had nothing to do with Drag Race cars. If you were around back then you would know. Lots of...
Mine is everyone who thinks any car that has a straight axle is a gasser. And there are a lot of them.
195 interstate between Hightstown and Jackson before it was added on. Nobody ever used it late at night .Great Dragstrip in the early 70s. Also...
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Tammy Wynette
Henry ford set a speed record himself in that car. With his rideing mechanic spider Huff .It has been in a lot of books.He built that car to get...
That is called a ruptured Duck.
Also across the street was Marcus welby md House which with the addtion of a window became the brady bunch house.
We did not sell our Hotrod in the old days as it was your only car.People that have a Daily and a hotrod are chainers who play at being a weekend...
Look at all the fake gassers out there lololol 10 years from now guys will be saying what a bunch of junk .
Easy Troys is for chainers. Shines is for a Hotrodder.
Lots of danger in junkyards.These kids nowadays do not know how to act and adults to. Ride a bicycle now a days everybody is wearing helmets,elbow...
I put one of these in a 51 chevy the spring perch's have to be moved one inch inboard . Even used the nova springs.
Ask the old timers about Bob Googe. Who had a carb that would get mpg's you would not believe. Ford reps came to his house and bought the carb and...
I have a slide hammer bead breaker,Got it used in 1968. Always breaks the bead hit it 4 or 5 times done . It is about 5 ft. long. I use 2 harley...
No thanks ,I still have my ride .Last raced in 1976 when the bracket crap started at englishtown and atco. I only race now when they have heads...
Livingston ave in new brunswick N.J also asbury park near the stone pony. !969 t0 1976
This car was banned from running at the dragstrip due to the frame.It is garage art it was trailed everyplace it went. Not streetable and can not...
It is not a Hemi .It is a f head .The factory site will tell you that.Hemi in name only. Spark plugs in the middle of the head does not make it a...
Lol bracket racing where you have to hit your brake if you are going to fast.Yeah that is draag racing.Think snake ever hit his brake.We fought...
trad. rods were also driven everyday.Back then we did not have crazy hollywood money so we could own 3 or more cars.So really very few people are...
When there were real Gearheads that drove there cars every day . Not only on weekends or nice days only.Now everyone uses the excuse i have kids i...
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