The Jalopy Journal
I bought a smooth one from a fellow HAMBer. Gonna install soon. I absolutely detest the spare/fender thing. Im so psyched about this truck and...
Its amazing what some decent wheels/tires will do for your motivation. Got a bunch of other parts I need ordered yesterday!
235/75 on the rear, 225/75 on the front! Cokers on 15/6 Wheel Vintiques!
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Not lately! Got my rims in finally, should get the tires ordered this week. Its just been loco at work, tons of birthday parties, blah blah. I...
I hear you man! We had three or four people die here in the drylands out west from those damned mosquitos. Scary stuff!
Love the new pic in your avatar, man! Your truck is sicker than the west-nile virus. I might have to find me a fleetside next.
That is good to hear. Grandma and Granddad finally found a restored '57 two-door hardtop belair exactly like the one he bought new when he was...
Just a quick update: I have 15/6 steels on the way and will be ordering my whitewall radials this weekend! Im gonna get this thing up and...
Thanks, gentlemen. If it doesnt look too "dodgy" (to borrow a favorite term from the brits), I am going to nab it.
I will definitely look it over! He is going to drop a 454 in the camaro and bracket-race it, has a 12 bolt ready to go...all we need to do is get...
He also has a 1980 camaro rearend. I am really just looking for something that is a good width and is easy to modify, perhaps adding a posi. Im...
Im not sure the measurement on the original yet, but hopefully will get it measured up tomorrow afternoon if we get off early enough. I would...
Thanks guys. I am enlightened daily. He has a lot of old cars and trucks out in Jal so I will take a notepad with things you've told me to look...
Gonna take a look at it this weekend, probably going to do the 5-lug disc conversion at the same time as well. This thing may have 2.56 gears?
I may have scored a 76 impala rear from a customer of mine. Thoughts?
The guys on F&L do come across as nice guys, and seem to have a lot of fun together. I like hearing legit Texas accents on television too. Good to...
I absolutely love Squidbillies! They nail hillbilly culture like nobody else. The "bad side" of my family is basically the human version of these...
Damn that 318 looks nice. Great job on those floors too. I am so excited to see this thing finished!
Oh hell that damned thing probably has 250,000 miles on it. A good portion of it on the farm. Back to the drawing board. I need to get out to some...
Thats an idea...I hadnt considered. It was actually the second brand-new pickup granddad bought after the '59.
There is a 67 chevy pickup out there, half-ton, longbed, complete. Not sure what that rearend is but it is six-lug.
Im learning, thanks to all of you. I dont know a damned thing about anything "ford" so I will have to do some homework on the 8.8 rearend. I...
Thanks El Greco! Im guessing this was an S-10 style blazer? I have a late-80s sitting at the farm that grandad was using for parts a few months...
Thanks again, gents. That 4speed/Caprice combo sounds right where I want to be. Was the width a good match? Was the disc swap a pain in the ass?...
Yes I meant highway gears. I had an 84 camaro sitting out here, complete sans engine till about two years ago. Damn. I'm considering doing the...
Hey gentlemen, hope your monday is going by quickly and smoothly! I am going to be hitting a couple wrecking yards this week to possibly...
I love hot red, came by it honest! Love that two-tone dash as well. I just font know if I'm going back with the original red or something...
The way my dash looked originally. Definitely will do it this way again, and may use that factory red color as well. Same Barrett-Jackson...
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