The Jalopy Journal
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...
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...
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 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...
I am waist deep into a Jalopy build that will hopefully look like the stuff that was running around the oval tracks in the Northeastern part of...
Hi HAMB folks So I was working on an old Morris Minor when this popped up on Facebook...I was ok with not buying but it didn't sell right...
[ATTACH] I am in the process of building a vintage oval track stock car...I am not having any luck finding this style steel wheels...the current...
Hi Hamber Folks... I have been tinkering with old junk my whole life....some of it HAMB friendly and some not...But... I don't go cruising with...
Hi Fellow Hamb folks... The calendar years are flying by and it looks like my much anticipated move to Kansas is going to become a reality in the...
Hi Hamb Folks... My full time career end is within reach now...no more than 24 months of working 2 jobs...the plan is to transition to working...
I was reading with much envy a thread on here about guys having cars for for 10, 20, 30, 40 plus years of ownership...how do you keep the candles...
Hi Hamb folks... I was reading a post on another website recently and there was a picture of the builders hot rod and then another showing his...
Hi HAMB folks... We are in the early stages of negotiations for a pile of parts to replicate an old Hot Rod that I remember as a kid (mid to late...
HI Hambers I was just reading a for sale ad on here and it showed a really low to ground hot rod...it got me to thinking.... Have any of you...
Hi Fellow Hambers The governor has bill on his desk and if both houses approve it and he signs it into law our early incentive to retire could...
Hi Hambers.... It looks like a move might be in my future to the N.E. Kansas area to be closer to my son and his family....most places I have...
HI Hamb Folks We are still about a year off but... It looks like we will be moving to a new county actually only 4 towns (45 minutes away) over...
HI Hambers I have been observing old cars for years...as we have all seen some guys built stuff that just doesn't look right...I have built or...
Hi HAMB folks... I am a little over 3 years away from getting my 25 years in at the local DPW in the county I live in, my kids are all grown and...
Hi HAMB folks So I am banging away on my Jalopy rebuild and we grind for a while...then we wire brush...then we cut...then we grind...then we...
Hi HAMB folks Just wondering how you guys get your game face on to go drive the old heaps and then switch back to the ultra-smooth and ultra-fast...
Hi HAMB folks So I got this 1940 Ford coupe Jalopy in my garage in my garage (my supposed ed dream build) in the first week of May 2019 and I am...
So I keep going back and forth in my head about building an open car....I work with several motorcycle guys and they love to just go out and...
As I toil away on my current Jalopy rebuild of a 1940 Ford coupe...it almost never fails...every night I work on it I end up at the end of the...
Hi Hamb folks I am rebuilding a 1940 Ford coupe that in its last lifetime was an oval track refugee....it appears to have been run in the mid to...
Hi Hamb folks... So I am collecting pieces and parts for a Jalopy rebuild...the old heap had two separate hanging pedals that were sorta hanging...
A little back story...my dad took me in 1965 to the opening night at the Albany-Saratoga Speedway in my then very sleepy hometown of Malta NY....I...
[ATTACH]So I am really new to the whole inner workings of an early Ford...I recently picked up a 1940 Ford Coupe...back in the late 1950's or...
So I am trying to save this old man from fading away into oblivion... from what I have been told it ran probably early 1960's in Southern tier of...
Hi HAMB folks: I see a lot of you folks on here have more than one project going on at a time...I saw one guy on here had 4 old cars going at the...
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