The Jalopy Journal
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] I'm gonna get this started and anyone who wants to contribute can post, hopefully with photos. First photo is Tdog and...
I Replaced the pinion seal a few months ago in the old Winters Quick Change and it's leaking again. Made a nasty mess under the car and on my shop...
[ATTACH] Last night we had a little thunder, some lightning and lotsa rain. This is good! Washed all the salt and chemicals off the roads and...
I thought about saving this 'till the Friday art show but I wanted to do it now. I was doing some spring cleaning and found a plastic bin on a...
I've been thinking I might make a run from Omaha to the west coast to visit family. I'd planned to drive my coupe out there because I'd driven it...
The 1926 movie "Roaring Road" is on the classic movie channel TCM---{Turner classic movies} ........some great shots of race cars.
My buddy, Dar is selling his old 59 GMC cab with doors. Photos tell the story. Windshield is cracked and there's some rust damage. He bought a...
When I was a kid my parents always had Pontiacs so having one is kinda like jumping into a time machine and firing it up. We had a 46 coupe, a 48...
Got a chance to buy this set at an estate sale. I got online to see if any parts are missing but these tools must be really rare or maybe just...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH=full Last Thursday we got 6-8 inches of spring snow. By Saturday the 18th it was all gone and the roads were clean and dry. The...
I was furloughed from my job and I submitted a claim on 3/13. Still no dollars so I got on their site and thought I'd do a "live chat" to see...
Goes from 1940 to 1954. Good binding, not all marked up and who knows? Maybe the cover will clean up with some simple green....Want to know how to...
Hardbound: This book is a treasure! I hate to sell it but I've enjoyed it and it's time to let someone else enjoy it. It's 512 pages of history...
Hardbound, As new book of 575 pages with about a million photos. Covers both American and European cars from the 30s to the 60s-70s...I'll sell it...
Tonight I ran into something that surprised me. I removed the grill from my 33 ford to install a pan behind the lower part...behind the crank...
Ok, so my son and his sweetie brought the kids over to my house to watch the Nebraska football game this afternoon. The kids watched the game for...
I'm always trying to improve my trusty ol 34, five window and when something I want comes up for sale, if I have the $$$ for it I buy it. I try to...
In the early 80s I ran a pair of M/T aluminum valve covers on my old 56 Pontiac with a 389 but didn't really care for them....I even milled off...
Some time ago I bought this 36 caddy steering wheel on line and when it got to me it had broken stainless spokes. I had no way to weld the small,...
The Wahoo swap meet was today. For the guys who live in Omaha and it's suburbs like me, it was like running a gauntlet just to get there! The...
Hope all the Midwest HAMBers are ok. I know Joe Cool lives in a little river town of Pacific Junction and at 4:00 this morning that entire town...
So, I thought you guys might like to see my new girl. We went cruising in a let-up in the snow and she LOVES my coupe!. She's a little...
[ATTACH] This afternoon in Omaha was a balmy 35 degrees. I'ts been 35 below with the wind chill only 2 days ago and the sudden heat wave made me...
This winter in Omaha has been cold, windy and snowy. Very few nice days come along in early January here but today was an exception. This morning...
I bought my transmission [1967, 2:20 low, M-21 close ratio] at a swap meet several years ago and looked inside before I bought it. Looked for...
It never got up to 50 degrees today but after a week of rain, it was nice to finally see the sun. I had a day off and Mrs Rocky was busy with her...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Since I got my 34 ford coupe running, I can't stop driving it! Oh, I still work on it but damn! I drive it to get a new bottle...
Got a parts lot from a buddy and this was was in it. I should have put a coin or something to show size but I forgot...it's about 3"X5" or so....
[ATTACH] I have a Wheelers [SCTA] club plaque I bought on ebay but the only info I could find on Google was the club listed as an SCTA club that...
Sorry, I wasn't able to click a photo as the car went across an intersection [72nd and Sorenson Parkway] before I could get my cell phone outta my...
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