The Jalopy Journal
Thanks 24Riverview and Chaz! Dead on.
I've spent an hour combing thru ebay, google images, etc. Only crested caps I remember shaped like these are Rambler I'm betting somebody...
Thanks TTwomotor!! Truly appreciate it.
Paul Blevins (RIP) - knew him pretty well back in 65 - 67. I met him when I worked at Duffy's in Red Bank before moving to Ocean Auto...
Does anybody recognize this crank blown twin? I don't recall having seen it in the 60s or 70s
Anybody sez they don't build em like they used to.... here's two sterling examples to the contrary!
My first car - number one of 152 in the ensuing 48 years - was a then 4-year old '61 Austin Mini that sometime in its life had a quart of...
I'm a traditionalist... points stay in everything of mine that came with points. Makes for simple troubleshooting, and nothing I drive with...
Love the "Rocket for Every Pocket..."
My choice would be a '39 with a '40 dash and steering column. As if I'd ever have that chance...
looks to me like a black and white cruiser crosses the intersection in the far background at about 58 seconds.... Anybody else see it?
In the early 80s while stationed in Memphis with the Navy, I had just finished building mean little open-top T-bucket style Corvair powered...
My all time favorite cover has always been Nov '49. Great car and even though she's probably 80, that's a right pretty girl with the movie star...
Gotta love the background music... reminds me of a trip to Baja in the late 60's in a pristine '60 Desoto that came back looking like a refugee...
My wife found this on youtube... I need this "chick" in my shop... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4I15-7L0ss
Flipping through the cable at 4am... Mayberry was on ... got me to thinkin' - maybe it was Gomer asking Goober how to fix that fender, and...
In 1963 I inherited a big old WWII era 4 shelf Kennedy roll-around (Haze grey Nav-Air issue) with deep barn doors. A place for everything...
I had just turned 17 - my dad was a career army officer - we'd recently moved back to the Jersey Shore, and managed to talk my folks into...
In Vietnam I learned about Devcon products for patching all sorts of radial aircraft engine and prop damage. It came in tubes for aluminum, steel...
A guy I know in NorCal came home after dark in Jan to find a hand poking thru the doggie door in the garage. Bunch of 'spensive things in a...
Saw some really nice iron, bought a couple of parts to take home. Couldn't find a tee-shirt to prove it... Good mix of beaters,...
I lived in Modesto from early to mid 70's (in my mid to late 20s). McHenry was prime cruising almost every night back then. About once a month...
Ryan - thanks for bringing us a little piece of the show. I voted for the Branch Roadster because on the first quick scroll down, it really...
What a great old piece of history! My thanks to the folks who archived the film, to those who discovered it and to those, esp Ryan for putting it...
Ryan - Well put. Years ago, when we were semi-broke, doing the Peter to Paul Payday Shuffle, the hot rod was often our only transportation,...
The kits I bought on Ebay can use the VSS or the driveshaft sensors.
Earlier this year I added an Audiovox CSC100 to the 5.0 powered MGB and liked it so much that I added one to my bottom of the line '97 5-speed...
Funny how time can warp memories - seems to me that the Moon Motel in Howell NJ was there in the late 50s but a website contradicts my...
My aunt who was a year older than me got a brand new maxed out gold/gold '64 Starfire when she graduated from high school, complete with the big...
Congrats to Ryan and Mom. I actually know two fellas named Miller - one from England, and the other of an old-Virgininan family. Strangely...
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