The Jalopy Journal
Never seen a Willys Jeep build on the HAMB...love those old flat fenders a lot...I think I have had 4 of them over the years...cool little trucks...
G-Force left over from my stock car racing days...never mounted...never out of the box...5 point mount [IMG] Grade 8 bolts with large washers... I...
I am not normal...but typically once I have it so it starts and stops and I let it go...(sometimes before hand too if I get bored with it) The...
Dear HAMB folks I am out in rural North East Kansas trying to find my way in the mid-west....born and raised in upstate NY...been into cars...
My old heaps talk to me... [IMG] My current garage filler is named Judy... Yes I know this thread is over a year old...
[IMG] Still not sure what this car was in it's last life...appears to be maybe a clown car...brown on one side... [IMG] both doors were yellow......
It runs in my family...my grandfather had a service station back in the 1940s and 50s....my dad loved to tinker with his own stuff from being...
So I left my gov't job of 25 plus years (Jan 20, 2023) and I have been working 3 days a week at my original part time job at the local Home...
I was 12/13 when it came out...I read about it in Street Rodder Magazine before I actually got to see the movie... Best movie ever made IMHO...
Love those smiles...everybody looks happy with the ole hot rod... Mike C
Ok kids...been a winter (well 6 weeks) I took off to Kansas and Erie PA to visit family...got home and went back out to the Cob Job Garage and did...
I just noticed the rear buggy spring with the GM style upper and lower trailing arms...I have never seen that set-up before... Thanks for showing...
For my grandfather and my dad too...they didn't like to walk but they liked to get from point A to point B and they were cheap...so they learned...
I grew up with a father who loved to work on cars....his love was older Mercedes Benz's and diesel engines were his passion... I loved oval track...
When I had a drivable heap the first ride was to the inspection station and then I usually would try a couple of times to drive to work (the...
I saw this hot rod pop up on a Facebook site...so glad I found it on here... Amazing stuff happening here for sure... I am following along Thanks...
Hi Fellow Hambers I remember talking with some of the guys I work with that ride motorcycles and I asked them why they always ran in packs and the...
I use no body filler at all ever... It is a vintage car...it needs to look like a vintage car... cut cut cut....tac tac tac...grind grind...
I saw this video the other day...I was amazed at the quality of the video...I noticed those old hot rods had no roll cages in them...back when the...
For my current cobbled up mess(1939 Plymouth)...I bought a JEGs kit for less than I could have bought the pipe for...this is supposed to look like...
Save it like it as close to what was originally built....I always look at any new project with the mindset..."how hard will it be to sell this...
I wanna get my current heap (1939 Plymouth) so it runs and drives...we are about 50% there...once that is done...would love to do an old Model A...
I love this stuff... I got hooked on street rods in the early 1970s when I found Rod Action Magazine and Street Rodder and Rod & Custom too.......
Oval tracks are where the speed happens for me...still love the feeling of taking the green flag and taking off into the corner with 20 others in...
So todays deals...I bought a pair of 15"x6" wide steel wheels from the fine folks at Wheel Vintiques in April of 2022 and as of right now (Jan...
That is exactly what I was thinking...nothing shiny or special...basic mid to late 60s workmanship and have fun when you it all done...just go out...
I remember Dale Sr. and the way he sat in his race car...his seat bottom must have been below the frame rails too... The master of going faster...
Love this stuff....the holey grail to boot... Good luck with this precious piece... MikeC
I have always loved the Deuce Coupes since the American Graffiti movie came out... So I got to thinking a bit about it...a brand new Union...
So I have 1970's GM A arm front suspension in my Jalopy and the local race car guy buys and sells Monte Carlo parts...$125.00 later I had this...
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