The Jalopy Journal
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] What do you do with a survivor '29 'A' hot rod coupe that has almost no aggressive attitude and was never really hot? I have a...
Well, I've always planned on putting my '35 Dodge coupe body on the frame under my '35 Dodge sedan parts car, but over the years the near-complete...
I've been digging thru an old guy's stash of so-called hot rod parts from the 50's and 60's and see a couple of things that interest me. One is...
I opened the door of a garage containing my stock 54 Bel Air Hardtop the other day and noticed that the entire back glass is honey-combed with a...
Today I went and looked at a '48 Ford F1 panel that a guy down the road wants to sell. This vehicle is the one with the double doors in the rear...
If I ever knew, I guess I've forgotten it now: When did the Mercury flatheads go to the 4 inch stroked crankshaft? Was it in 1949, or was it...
I stumbled across a SBC at a wrecking yard yesterday that had a harnmonic balancer on it that appeared to be a SBC 400 balancer, so I wrote down...
A guy needing to come up with some money in a hurry to keep from getting evicted from his house has put several '60s and '70s era Chevy pickups up...
So I have been trying to verify exactly what Y Block engine is in Farmer Brown's '56 Ford COE to help me decide whether I want to fork over $500...
I was buying some hay for my livestock a week or two ago and spotted a '56 Ford COE parked behind the OLD FARMER'S stackyard. After loading the...
An friend of mine who is getting along in years gave me some stuff last night to save him having to load it up and put it in the trash. Besides...
The snow finally melted enough that I could hitch up my 'prospecting' trailer and make a visit to one of the secret old iron mines nearby....
I stopped over to a friend's house this afternoon with a trailer behind my rig to pick up a couple of 1930's rolling chasses that he was getting...
Having looked off and on for a complete rear panel for my '32 Ford Tudor Sedan without much success (too damaged, too incomplete, or too far...
I've been trying to hone in on my Lincoln Y Block's identity --- specifically to get it's displacement and year of manufacture (I understand 317...
During the weekend I went to see a rancher about a John Deere tractor he had for sale. When I drove the 45 miles to his house in Timbuktu, he...
A guy posted a "free-for-the-taking 1950 Ford Pickup rolling chassis" locally, so I went to look at it tonight. The chassis may be from a 3/4 ton...
In the old days when you asked a rodder what the steering in his rod was from, you would very often get "1956 Ford pickup" as the answer. I found...
My '59 Chevy Parkwood longroof has got to get a V8 soon so I can go camping in it. From the factory, the '59 came with an inline six. As big a...
I've been into Ford flatheads for a long time, but recently picked up one that's kind of strange (to me). Anybody got any info on the OBAS model?
I've been trying to ID the nailhead in a recently acquired jalopy built in '57 or '58 in San Diego. The old guy who built it and raced it in the...
A friend of mine gave me an Olds V8 and Tranny that he's had tucked in a shed for 25 years or so. He forgets exactly what engine came out of, but...
Over the years I've had six or more 327 engines and probably a couple dozen double-humper heads (castings 461, 462, 186, etc.) Today I got to...
I'm looking at an older (1959 the wrecking yard man thought) 9" rear end with 3.70 ratio indicated on the metal tag attached to 3rd member, and...
I got a narrow disk-brake rear end from a buddy who crushes cars for a living. He thought it came out of a Versaille, but couldn't remember for...
I picked up a couple old, used sheet metal brakes today for $35 apiece, and I'm hoping that they will handle the same guage sheet steel that are...
Out scrounging the high desert sagebrush this week , I came acoss some derelict '30s vehicle pieces --- most of a Model T C Cab body and fenders,...
I posted a while back asking about which would be a better drivetrain choice for my '37 Plymouth Sedan Delivery project - a Dodge 318 or a 360....
I was doing the regular Saturday morning parts search at the local wrecking yards and came across a 9 inch Ford rear end that was quite narrow...
Well I was in my nice,go-to-work clothes when I stopped by a wrecking yard to pick up an '85 or 86 S-10/S-15 transmission that they had pulled for...
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