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Why is a front end called " Suicide " when the front axle is mounted ahead of the transverse leaf spring ???
I just had to post here on this thread to thank all of you that encouraged me to keep trying to find a way to get to Bonneville. I did not book a...
I have been planning my first trip to Bonneville for a year now. As speed week becomes closer my plans are falling apart. I am on the wrong...
This Tuesday evening, June 11th, some hambers are going to gather at Shadybrook Farms cruise night. Hot Rod Surfer will be there with his 53 Ford...
There are a few threads on this JJ that I want to subscribe to so I can view them easily. How do I subscribe to a thread?
I need help with Bonneville plans, I am from Philadelphia and I dont have a clue!!! For those of you that have been to the Holy Grail I need your...
Seems like every time that I post somethig I am told that I did not log in, then I lose my post. Yes I logged in !!!!!!!!!!!!! Does it kick me off...
How about posting some pictures and articles about Philadelphia area Hot Rods and drag cars from years back. I will start with the Satans 32...
I know that the words HOT ROD has been around for a long time. I would like to know where the term originated, when it originated, and whom is...
Hot Rods with history is mostly a West Coast thing because those guys cared about what they were doing and kept documentation about their cars. So...
I am deeply sorry to inform that my lifelong friend ken Montgomery has passed after a seven year battle with heart surgeries. Ken grew up in...
Just wanted to wish everybody on the board a happy Thanksgiving. Goldy
Last week the Hot Rod Hoedown event, in it's 9th year, was held in Oakford Pa. Oakford is about 5miles west of Street Road, Bensalem exit of Route...
I just viewed the video and read through RYANS thread about the 554 fuel coupe. Like everyone else that posted, I was in awe over that 34. Some...
Over 50 years ago , a few young men interested in Hot Rodding and Drag Racing put together the first fuel coupe that I know of on the east coast....
Tonight I watched "Shaggy Dog" on TCM. Fred Mc Murry and two boys and a dog co-star with a 27T roadster traditional Hot Rod. I could see that it...
I posted a thread about Atco Yesteryear Drags that were held on Oct 14. I thought I was posting pictures but they came out as an address to click...
The Philadelphia Modifiers is a hot rod club that has been in existance since 1955. Each year they put on two old time drag races at the old Atco...
I am thinking about using a Potvin frontdriven blower set up on a 392 Hemi in a street roadster. I already have the blower set up, the Hemi and...
Ive been on the Hamb/Jalopy Journal for a while now and I don,t remember if I ever introduced myself. So let me do it now, I am Paul Gold. When I...
First went to drags in 1956 after reading mags for two yrs. I built some hot rods in the 50's. Built 1st dragster in 1961 and have been running...
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