The Jalopy Journal
This is coming up next month https://www.sickthemagazine.com/death-week A sort of copy of Hot Rod magazine's Drag Week. Tom Bailey started his...
We're on the road! Stopped for a break, almost to new Mexico. A long ways to go to the start of Drag Week in Darlington SC. [ATTACH]
I've been going through a midlife crisis (no problems with my wife, I'm just realizing that I'm starting to get old!) so I got the itch to get an...
They announced Drag Week 2023 https://www.motortrend.com/events/hot-rod-drag-week-2023-official-route-and-general-information/ Down south this...
I came across 2/3 of a case of this stuff....seems to have settled...when I shake it for a while, there still seem to be some things floating...
My wife's dad is getting pretty old, and has a lot of stuff. We've been slowly taking some of it home with us, to get a head start on having to...
pretty cool, three HAMB rods in Hot Rod! [ATTACH]
I wore out the rear tires on Plan II, so I got a new pair, now that they're back in stock. Coker Classic L78-15. I mounted the first one, and put...
Edit Nov 7 2022, starting on another LeMons Rally, this one goes from New Orleans, up the Great River Road to St Paul. This rally coverage starts...
Seems that these days, everyone loves boring old cars. You know, the kind that you wouldn't have been caught dead in 50 years ago. Station wagons,...
1965 Plymouth Barracuda stretched nose, altered wheelbase drag/drive car. Rectangular tube mild steel chassis, chrome moly cage. Certified to...
43 years ago, I was working on a car for some friends, and got a few parts at a junkyard. I noticed they had a complete 396 laying in the core...
1977....I had bought a 4bbl intake from a friend, and got a Quadrajet from another friend. I decided to swap it onto the 283 in the 61 Impala...
I'm at the races in Tucson. Wrenchbender and Max are here. I'm just showing Plan II. [ATTACH]
I had an adventure tonight. I took my Chevy II to the drags in Tucson, which is an hour or so away. I made a few runs, but it was pretty slow,...
Brian just let me know that it's on... https://www.hotrod.com/events/drag-week/ [ATTACH]
my friend Elana wrote a book with the Snake and there's an excerpt to read.....
HI folks. I'm off on another adventure, in a car that I should not be driving. It has a 63 Tempest chassis, although the body is off topic (1970s...
Well, it's time to go! I'm leaving first thing in the morning, heading up to Bonneville for the beginning of Speed Week, then off to Monterey for...
Always bring some baling wire with you, you never know what you'll need it for. Drove the Hudson to Tucson today, and caught the tailpipe on a...
I got this 51 Hudson Hornet, and got it running, and it seems to be using quite a bit of oil. The engine is a 1954 308, that had been swapped in...
I just got a new car, 51 Hudson Hornet. It looks like someone started a 12v conversion on it, maybe 30 years ago. It has an alternator, but still...
We never know what will show up...this is a kind of strange event. But there are usually a few traditional cars, of some kind or another. I took a...
It's time....my brother David and I are heading out today for the LeMons Rally, down the Mother Road. We drive to Joliet, IL hoping to get there...
Working on an old LaSalle, for an adventure this fall. My brother got this car in the 1980s, and started working on it, but stopped. He says the...
I got a new car. The plan is to make the next step in the evolution towards the Funny Car. My inspiration is cars like the Pete Dorsey Crazy Cuda...
Looks like my transmission is dying on my 59 truck. TH400. Might need a place to store the truck or something if I can't fix it. I'm on my way to...
Last year, as some of you might recall, I got an Edsel, fixed it up, and went on an adventure, called the LeMons Rally. My twin brother David went...
Hi, I'm looking for some info on how long it's supposed to take to do a few things on my new 1963 Corvair. I'm not familiar with working on these...
When we moved out to the "country" in 1993, we got 4 acres, no zoning restrictions, a place for horses, and a bunch of crappy outbuildings. First...
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