The Jalopy Journal
If you leave them as-is, you need to then get an all new silk wardrobe. Don’t forget about wearing matching slippers when you get in the truck....
I can't see your photos, but steel is steel, just paint them whatever color you want, with the usual raw steel prep. I painted mine, one pair...
Our coupe was originally built into a Hot Rod in Napa California (I have the builders name, Ive always wondered if he's still alive). It was blue...
[ATTACH] 1959 Hello, A matching blue 1957 Ford Ranchero was the sight from my advantage point near the starting line at the 1959 Riverside...
...I remember one day a truck pulling an enclosed trailer with matching paint schemes pulled in. Guys all had matching uniforms. They unloaded a...
Yup, they were black and/or matching body paint around that time. But car owners did like to personalize their vehicles back then no different...
1937 Ford Model 78 Club Cabriolet for sale. This is an extremely nice car inside and out. It's mostly stock with the exception of being lowered...
Don't "Over Cam" a 283, it will become a real turd because of the short stroke. They don't like too much duration. Don't dismiss the idea of a...
[ATTACH] Hello, It did not matter what I did in the darkroom, color was there, for me and the owner. But, it was not for the editors of the...
Pull the radiator. Pull the hood. Unsnap the front electrical harness. Remove the battery. On top of the cowl will be a fender bolt on each side....
...Impalas are making me miss mine. I think we're gonna bring it down south with us next winter. Maybe even with matching paint... [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Thank you, this thread has been a good way to keep my progress and photos in one location, I would have lost a lot of photos without it. I have...
Finally got the window garnish's installed with metal tabs. Front windsheild and then was able to finish the insturment dash install. [ATTACH]...
1948 Ford coupe set up as a milid 50’s hot rod. Big and little white walls, 15 inch Mercury wheels Oldsmobile Fiesta cabs, awesome pearl white &...
Probably get thrown out but maybe a few HAMB personnel will see it b4 it gets”relocated” cause not hamb friendly LATEST ride after 60 years hot...
[ATTACH] Hello, Your build is inspiring. So much so, that I had an old roadster ART sitting around on my drawing file waiting for some...
My Bumper To Bumper paint guys struggled on color matching by code or sample:D I'll shoot a photo of the paint can label when I get home.
Here in Pennsylvania if your car is antique or classic you can have plates from the year it was manufactured. I have 1950 plates on my car,...
idiot didn't write it down. thread about somebody painted their rims and looked like halibrands. can't find the thread. what was the paint and i...
I have seen pictures of them on car haulers going to the dealers and you could see the paint on the front clip didn't match the body. The front...
My panhead was in Easyriders decades ago and the pictures were taken at a studio in Burbank. The photographer took rolls and rolls of pictures...
I have a set of gennie Ansens. The fronts are 14 x 6. I'll separate from the two rears. 5 x 4.5s. PM me. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] The rears are 15 x 10.
I have some 14” slots, they would be cheap, just have to come get them.
[ATTACH] Hello, I took this photo a year ago of the cool blue Ford pickup truck parked along a nice uninterrupted background. At the time, it...
[ATTACH] My personal driver for the past 2 years...312 cu. with 3-speed stick...4bbl...mild custom, lowered slightly ( the car sits 6 1/2" off the...
I saw a 33 Plymouth at a car show and want to match the color for my car. He showed me the old paint can. Can a shop use this code to make paint...
64 Chevy Biscayne wagon Factory power steering Under dash ac Numbers matching 283 (getting it going ) 3 on the tree Has rust in usual places...
There is one answer if you are doing a numbers-matching restoration. There are a lot of answers if you're doing a "snapshot in time", old style,...
1934 Chevrolet Master Sport Sedan Listing for a family member. Second owner – purchased from original owner in the 1960s. Car has been in the...
True, painting two different colors in the same booth at the same time. This is from '59 at Chevrolet. I toured the Kansas City Ford plant in...
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