The Jalopy Journal
You did a good thing! The family that got the car back will never forget your kindness.
Big socks?
Who told?
Sounds like you live next door to Gladys Kravitz.
I read a few months ago about how Alex Trebec, the host of Jeopardy had been diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer. His prognosis wasn't a...
My computer appears to prep the video (it's one minute and six seconds long) to attach it to the thread but it never appears. Sorry for the false...
Sorry, I couldn't get the video to attach to my thread, so I deleted the paragraph I'd written. Will try again later when my computer whiz gets home.
So far so good. Thanks to my friend Ray Barnes, aka Searbee here on the HAMB, the 500 is in the car and running. It's a full engine compartment...
I've got a Cad 500 in my '40 Ford.
I'm sixty two years old. I lost my dad at the age of eighty four back in February. As I've gotten older I watched him become more and more frail...
Thanks everyone for the help and the photos. I appreciate it!
I need some help identifying which knob goes where on a '40 Ford dash. When I bought this car it had an aftermarket dash in it with Stewart Warner...
Thanks to all of you who responded, I know where I'm heading now. Once again the HAMB proves it's worth!
I'm in the process of getting the exhaust system built on my '40 Ford and I'm wondering how far to extend the tailpipes. If I remember correctly...
My experience since 2008 when I bought my '40 Ford project is as follows; it has taken a lot longer than I expected, it has cost geometrically...
Rev It Up and Go by the Stray Cats is guaranteed to make you exceed the posted speed limit.
It would take a full roll of paper towels to clean the glass in that beauty.
I learned to drive in our family's 1971 Ford van. My dad was a great teacher, never got rattled when I would screw up and always thought up clever...
Is that Marty McFly's Delorean hiding in the corner of your garage? The '36 is quite the time machine too. Beautiful car.
The classic chromosaurus, rumored to be extinct but still being discovered here and there. Nice car!
I lived with my grandparents for a few months in 1963 when I was seven. They had a very similar TV to the one pictured. Every evening after supper...
I was never brave enough to ride the Dragon. I did however ride the Pacific Coast Hwy in northern CA for quite a distance. I was scared out of my...
My brother conned me in to riding our motorcycles from CA to NC a few years ago. We crossed Nevada on Hwy 50 from Reno to the Utah border and saw...
Your accommodating of your wife is known as “taking the path of least resistance “. The older you get the easier it becomes.
What a great thread. It reminds me of a bar in Winston Salem, NC back in the 80's that had a mid forties Indian motorcycle just inside the front...
That explains why my father would have had one. He had told me several times of trying to hook up a flame thrower on his 1950 Ford, and I was...
My daughter helped me to post the pictures and as we hit the "go" button I told her and her boyfriend that I would have an answer in five minutes...
I recently cleaned out my father's garage after he had passed away and found this device in his tool box. Dad was an old school Ford guy and life...
You should have had a mask on. I think you got a steal.
Mark Twain said "diapers and politicians need to be changed often and for the same reason" and this saying becomes increasingly true as time goes on.
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