The Jalopy Journal
Does anyone know what's the story with Sacramento Raceway (Sacramento, California)?:confused: I was looking forward to going to the Nighttime...
Here's some pics I shot at Billetproof in Antioch on Saturday. I went just as a spectator this year since I didn't register in time. On another...
Anyone go to the Nitro Nite of Fire drag races in Sacramento on 6/27? It was pretty cool. They had a special event there called "cackle fest"...
I went to the Half Moon Bay "Dream Machine" car/plane show on Sunday. They had a section devoted to a reunion of old front engine dragsters and...
I got a great deal on this old Craftsman metal lathe in a garage sale yesterday, along with hundreds of pounds of old machinist tools that went...
I had problems with my older Lokar shifter's pushbutton being almost impossible to push down (and getting stuck down too) in my '54 Chevy pickup I...
Did Optima Batteries get their act together or are they still having problems? I had great luck with Optimas for a lot of years, and then one I...
Have any of you ever figured out how to make some sort of low budget home-made camera mounts to mount a camera in your hot rod while you're...
While reading the thread on tubing benders, I thought about a practice that I do whenever I weld up any structures out of tubing. I picked up the...
I watched Chinatown last night in HD. It stars Jack Nicholson and Faye Duniway (or as I used to call her "Fadin away"), and it was made in 1974....
It was raining cats and dogs, and I was bored sitting around the house, so I decided to try pinstriping for the first time ever. For a while,...
Do any of you other gearheads ever try to identify an engine you hear in something driving by just going by how it sounds, and then you just have...
I wanted to get a car cover for my hot rod pickup I just finished making. But, when I saw what they charge for a good car cover (>$200) and...
Has anyone made some nice homemade car ramps that work well for doing stuff like oil changes on low profile cars? I'm thinking about making some...
I just finished my '32 pickup about a month ago, and the chopped radiator seems to work fine as long as I'm moving, but if I putter around in slow...
This is in California. I jumped through all of the hoops with the DMV to use some old Year Of Manufacture plates that I found at a swap meet....
Is there a way to bring old dried up bricks of polishing compound back to life? I have some old bricks of emery polishing compound that dried...
I fired up the new SBC engine I built this weekend for the first time. I can get it to run so so at 2000 to 2500 rpm by lightly pumping the...
Since it's been raining a lot lately on the weekends, I've been working on some little stuff. I machined a fuel log out of a scrap of 6061...
I've noticed that everyone who chops the top of a '32 -'34 Ford pickup more than a few inches, drives around with the window propped open all the...
Check out my home-made throttle cable bracket. It sandwiches under the rear carburetor of a tri-power setup and gives me a point to anchor the...
I just watched a movie called "Dillinger" made in 1973. I'd never seen it before. It's a pretty cool movie actually, and has tons of old cars...
I installed these "already loaded" 11" drum brake backing plates on my Ford 9" rear. I had a brake bleeding problem on the right rear wheel...
I went to install my new driveshaft's yoke into the tail of my TH400 and had a strange problem. It would go in part way and then "CLUNK". It...
This looks kind of mad dog, but it works. It's a great way to seal up and protect the inside of a door, and it gets into every nook and cranny...
I have something similar to this Eelco 3x2 linkage setup, but I'm missing the center arm. I was thinking about making my own center arm from some...
We had a 5.6 earthquake the other night. Not a huge one, but I did go out to check on my project car that's sitting way up high on jack stands to...
Here's my home-made alternator mount. I didn't want an ugly alternator sitting up on top of my engine or hanging out the side, so I got this...
I mounted a mini Nippondenso alternator in my hotrod down low alongside the engine and I want to verify the wiring schematic to make sure I hook...
Here's a little tech on how I made some homemade zoomie style headers. I rough cut the header flanges out of 3/8" thick cold rolled steel bar...
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