The Jalopy Journal
I do not post very often, but still I read the board on a quite regular basis. When it comes to my custom projects, life have had its turns with...
I travel quite a lot in buisness; Argentina, Belgium, Poland, The Netherlands, Brazil, Italy and many more countries. When I get some time...
Does the 48-52 F-1 speedo (100mph) and the heavy truck (80mph) speedometer share its iternals? Is different reading of the 80 mph Ford heavy...
What parts did Oz use when he built the grille for his Merc? A friend asked me, and even after a long search I could not answer. Looking at the...
Recently at Customs of Sweden's webside there was photo posted from the Oakland Roadster Show held in 1959, the guy that did post it, Gene-rator...
Anyone out there with real good knowledge of the production years (first and last year of production) of different models of Appleton Series 112...
Anyone out there with knowledge about the origins of the grille parts on this Ayala-built Merc? The car was published in Hop Up May -53 so the...
I wonder if anyone out there knows what parts in a 337 Lincoln distributor that interchanges with other cars. Cap? Rotor? Points? This is what Im...
I wonder what is the best and cheapest way to send parts inside USA? I have two doors in Indiana that I need to send to Arizona and a complete...
I have a question about the tail light lenses of -51 Lincolns. I know that the housings are different on the baby-Lincoln and the Cosmopolitan....
I'm aware that the 49, 50 and 51 Mercs all have different side trim on the front fenders. But is the side trim at the doors and rear fenders the...
Annual Custom show in Jönköping every Easter. A big show with everything from 20´s vintage cars to tuner and styling, but also a lot of rods and...
Right now Im in a bit of trouble and I need some help! Im doing a magazine feature and Ive mislaid an important photo. Ive spent the last...
Anyone out there with knowledge about that club? All information welcomed! Also, information about an old dragster, belonged to Dave Butler and...
I guess I´m the first one out this time... The work continues on my sectioned and chopped 53/54 Ford. Not that much done since last week´s post...
Found these cars in the background of a custom Corvette photo from 1967. Can it have been Starbirds backyard? Any history of the cars?
A few months ago my computer went down, the hard disc crashed. With that was 45 Pages of my IRON magazine project lost, among with all my e-mails,...
Went to a small rod & custom meet today in a nearby town, "Lead Rock Lead" i Köping. To promote it, we did some advertising about it in...
I found this photo on a Finnish site with a lot of car show photos. This kustom had been shown lately at car show in Helsinki, it looks perfect to...
When it comes to pinstriping I will put Tommy "The Greek" Hrones on the throne. But its not his fantastic pinstriping that I want to know about,...
How about this! An issue of Pravda from 1938 (Pravda was the Sovjet reguime newpaper...) [img]
Found this one at the carnut.com page on the net. Is it a Valley Custom, or? How come the US magazine guys never featured it, or have they?
In the late 70´s this 39 Merc was restored by Karl Jonasson in Costa Mesa. The first photo is from the Swedish magazine "Custom Rod" (the magazine...
Longtime Hambers might remember my 54. It is still in the same spot, no real progress for long, just cleaning up the body of remains of paint. So...
Right now Im wring a feature about Larry Ernst 52 Ford cvt for the much delayed issue #27 of Lead News (I have not forgotten those who did ask for...
About a year ago I had some contact by e-mail with Kim Kehaka (dont know his name on HAMB or if he is still around here). It was about his 40...
...but soon to be published, a new issue of Lead News. As the old-timers at HAMB already know, I used to be editor of a non-commercial magazine...
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