The Jalopy Journal
It was[ATTACH] posed in the early Sixties alongside a logging truck that the owner, Basil Oldfield, had designed, in BC, Canada.
New Zealand stock car racer Gary Wike used this special Ford sidevalve V-8 in 1960. The engine has "Hogan" cylinder heads fitted with twin plugs...
This is a 1957 photograph of a Doukhobor funeral procession in the tiny village of Krestover, British Columbia. The Doukhobors are/were a Russian...
I knew this make and model off by heart, and now (I'm only 77 years old) --- help!
Two old b/w photographs taken in Britain in the mid 1950s. The partial photo seems to be a 1948 Buick Roadmaster Sedan [note the rear...
The snapshot was taken in 1957 in the UK. It is cropped, and the best I can manage from the old print. I think it is an American convertible....
Can anyone identify the American [?] car in the left background? [ATTACH] The photo was taken about 1960-61 at a British stock car race
Can anyone identify the make/model of the dark car, being raced on a British oval in 1957? "Chelveston" was a huge American WW2 bomber base that...
[ATTACH] Can anyone identify the split-screen sedan on the left? I have been searching but to no avail. It has the look of a military 'staff...
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Somebody told me "425 Buick" --- any other suggestions?[ATTACH] ns?
An Australian dentist in the UK stuck this in his ex-rally Ford Cortina GT in 1964. My ancient pencil note says "300 cu.in. Chevy" but I am no...
[ATTACH] Excuse my ignorance --- but is the #42 car a Packard or a ----?
Again an enquiry from the UK: this car was raced on short ovals and took a bettering. Any bguesses as to make / model /year. I've had "Pontiac"...
This car had been[ATTACH] used in the UK by the Canadian embassy, and was photographed in a Birmingham (UK) scrapyard in the early fifties. What...
[ATTACH] I can't identify the white tow car in this photo: only the back is visible in this photo taken in England. Is it a Thunderbird?
This photo shows a wagon that's been abandoned so long the trees have grown up around it, and [ATTACH] few locals even know it's there. The site...
I'm guessing it is a 348-inch motor, but more than that I have no idea. Were the triple carbs a GM option, or did the English oval modified...
This motor was in a [probable] 1930s Nash, but does not look like a Nash engine to me. Or is it? (I have also posted a separate thread querying...
I am trying to distinguish this coupe, which I think is a Nash (though a couple of friends insist it's a Ford "A"). Then nrad grille is an...
I can find several Hudsons and Olds that match the main bodywork, but nothing that matches the hood. Maybe the hood was an add-on by the stock...
Photograph taken approx. 1957 in the UK. What is the car parked behind the modified racer? here is the photo link:...
Photo taken about 40 years ago, a British stock car ---- can anyone hazard a guess to identify these odd valve covers, or are they part of a...
:)On the left of this 1962-ish photo is a white car; anyone identify it, please? Photo taken in England....
:)I just saw a fascinating photograph of a modified flathead motor used in a New Zealand stock car in the 50's and early 60's. The photo is here:...
:confused: --- or adapted them, --- to test gas turbine engines. In the late nineteen-fifties they were moored in Poole Harbour, Dorset. Locals...
:confused: When sprint car drivers roll to a stop, they pull the quick change out of gear, but I can't figure out the internal mechanism. I see...
:confused:This 800kb photo can be enlarged; this British stock car, circa 1969, has V-8 valve covers that I don't recognize. Anyone identify...
http://www.oldstox.com/images/Jock%20Lloyd%201957.jpg The photo was taken in 1957 at the Lydden Hill stock car track in Kent, UK. Although the...
:confused:I believe there was some kind of aftermarket ohv conversion for Chrysler's straight-8 flatheads. A buddy says he remembers the name...
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