The Jalopy Journal
Around 1920 "hot rod" was the arena for american teenagers: when they learned to work around bodies and engines. Around 1940-1950 american...
Frank told me one time,... "The only reason you read about California Hot Rods in the Magazines all the time,... Is because that's where the...
So I'm prowd to own a copy (S.C.T.A.) of the last reprint. Amazing.
Simply amazing! Thanks for sharing!
I'm sorry, Jive-Bomber, but you're wrong about the "sole" dragster built in Europe. In 1967 the "DRAGoon's CLAN", the first italian hot rod Club...
Simply amazing! In Europe (but I think in U.S.A. too) we say: "chapeau!"
That's OK, but given I'll be unable to be there I'll give my ticket to our Chief! :p
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone, from Italy!
That's a kind of racing history! When racing was dangerous, not sex! Thanks for sharing! It's a kind of time machine to me.
About electric power and batteries, please read "Phisics for Future Presidents. The Science Behind the Headlines" by Richard A. Muller (2008 W.W....
Sorry ... that's oval tracking, not hot rodding!:eek:
[IMG] That is. In 1967 I was 26: I discovered drag racing among the pages of an italian Magazine (Auto Italiana). The previous year I and my...
I'm thinking you know this fact, but the book it's downloadable here: http://www.deansgarage.com/wp-content/uploads/Styling-The_Look_of_Things.pdf
Leonardo Da Vinci (I'm italian, you know...) Henry "Smockey" Yunick Donald "Big Daddy" Garlits
Wow, wow and more wow! Thanks to all who posted pictures and "hot rod story" posts. Franco
Thanks, Ryan and thanks to "burbanite", too. Never heard of this story.
Very cool work! Nice driving, I suppose, too!! I love "How to do" topics.
What to say? Awesome video, good sound, immaculate flathead: not yet seen, sound only in video...:Thanks one more time, Ryan!
Thanks again Ryan! I too love Indy (old) cars: and I agree with Smokey: Indy would have been reserved to american cars, engines, mechanics and...
Very nice collection to chose from! Wow...
Great pics and great dreaming...
The driver was Piero Taruffi, the one that won Mille Miglia steering his car with the "rod" of his steering wheel. The track is "Autodromo...
Thanks for the astounding "pictorial"!!! :)
Wow, wow, wow... those were the old good days!!!!
Oh, I enjoy this stuff!!!!!
That's why I love (old) american cars!:)
Thanks Ryan! Half an hour to read all. Thanks to all.
Welcome from an italian member (newbie)!
Many thanks, Ryan! Any "foreign" hambers in the groups? Franco
R.i.p. Hambandy.
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