The Jalopy Journal
Helping a buddy sell his project. 1964 Mercury Monterey. 2 door, breezeway rear window. Very solid car, no rot. 390/Auto, A/C, PS, PB. Excellent...
What is the interchange for 1954 Chevy 3100 spindles? I see some references in the king pin selections to 47-54 and other references (spindles)...
I'm not sure if this was posted here yet or not (I checked but didn't find anything) but the car community lost a very interesting, very generous...
My buddy ModelABrian and I are heading out to the USFRA event next week. Who else is gonna be there?
I'm looking for ideas on seats for my '48 Tudor sedan. I have the original seat springs and frames but they are pretty tired. The rear might be...
Anybody have a '57-'62 Y-block equipped truck clutch pedal handy that they can measure up for me? (F100 thru F600) These used a hydraulic clutch...
Hello All!!! A couple of very, very good friends of mine (fellow HAMBr ModelABrian and his wife Julie) just moved to Marshfield Wisconsin and...
In September I posted about an auction a buddy of mine was holding to liquidate some of his collection. Today I telling you with a heavy heart...
We've got an old Van Norman 900 Boring Bar that still works perfect....except the gear(s) for the scroll feed (pinion and crown gears) desided to...
Saturday, October 18th, we will be holding Tucker Callen's annual "Bluebloods" All-Ford and hotrod picnic. Tucker love's his Fords and Mercs,...
My friend Mike George is auctioning off some of his collection. He has a huge collection of parts, tools and cars. If you've got the bucks to...
One of the hats I get to wear here at GM/Trison that I’m a Certified Chemical Hygiene Officer. I sometimes have to interpret these laws,...
Within the past couple of years either at the Jalopy Showdown or Autorama (yeah, I know - that really narrows it down) somebody had either as a...
I talked to Denise tonight. She said to tell everybody thank you for your thoughts. Its gonna be a long road to recovery and its likely that her...
I've got four 50's ish Olds motors with hydromatics bolted to them that I'd like to try and ID. I've been on various web sites and I'm also a...
Anybody got any information on these guys. All I know is they were in the race tranny business competing with the likes of B+M years ago....
I scored an awesome club jacket last spring while in Cali. When I was at VLV last spring I also ran into a cute chic that worked for/ran a company...
Anybody here ever have issues with squeaky rockers? We just finished up a low buck small block Ford 331 stroker and used CompCams Magnum...
Anyone else have a problem with new valve cover gaskets not fitting (being too long in this case) new Offy valve covers? The gaskets fit the...
Somebody somewhere has WAY too much time on thier hands. Check this out. http://www.imcdb.org/index.php -Bigchief.
Anybody here try Precision Pumps (California) induction hardended chrome-moly rockershafts and billet aluminum rocker shaft stands (with end...
**Attention members of the Jalopy Showdown Secret D.B. Society** The official Showdown code word counter was at 1569 when we left the grounds...
Anybody see the newest Street Rodder??? Look on page 20. There's a mini remote control car done up in S0-WHAT colors and logo. Too cool. -Bigchief
Here's a few shots of the progress on my '48 Ford Sedan. Its basically all apart. I'm try'n like hell to get the frame blasted before snow flies...
I'm looking to drop the front of my '48 fatty and right now it looks like I may not need to split the wishbone. I plan on using a SuperSlide front...
You knew this was coming.... Anybody here ever put a Y-block in a fat fender? If so...any advice? I plan on using a pretty much stock '60...
Guess whos NOT parking outside the gates next year at York!!!!! I'm picking up my new Fatty tonight. Its a '48 Ford 2dr Sedan. Its a barn find....
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