The Jalopy Journal
Used to cast aluminum shifter knobs, had a '65 Impala that I dearly loved. I'm old enough to remember Germ,,, and how Trailer Ed got his name, if...
This was part of the last run of knobs I did before my son was born. I finished one for a guy, and since this one was pretty close, decided to...
I've been a HAMBer 10 years now, and a bunch has changed since I was a dumbass college kid piddling with a 50 Pontiac 4 door. Wife, kids,...
Working on a little project so's I can revisit, revise, and improve upon one of my early designs. What I need is to borrow a 1960s-early 70s drag...
Well, things very recently moved me to check in on the old HAMB. The job, family life, pitfalls of being a first time homeowner, and paying the...
so the brakes on the new coupe are messed up. car stranded me at work monday, brakes locked up tighter than, well, this girl i used to know......
didn't really wat to title this as "history," but it looks like i can't undo it... been working on this for a long time and the bank finally came...
Wasn't too long ago I read the HAMB every day, and here I haven't been on since April something. A year ago, long story short, I saw the only girl...
well, here i sit, made it home while everybody's enjoying the films... tired as hell (rough week) and too much crap that i need to get done...
like mike posted, today's the 63rd anniversary of the invasion of normandy, and i've been working this week to make a special shifter knob for the...
a while back clark suggested that i do a kenneth howard themed shifter knob for him, one for auction, and open it up for a very limited run. most...
pretty much what the title says... i'd love to be able to make a fuel guage from a WWII plane work in a car i don't even have yet... WWII planes...
had the opportunity to check out most of the cars (and girls selling program books... mwuhahahahaah) today when i took a bunch of shifter knobs to...
better late than never, i guess, guys. working around the day job and all of that has been a bitch, but now that i'm on summer vacation i've got...
lookin for that picture of dutch with the fake third eye and striping brushes in his ears for a project... tried google and only saw one or...
it's a 650 cfm holley 6468-1... what's the vintage on these things? teacher at school has one that he wants to sell. looked up some rebuild kits...
i have a 3 ring saginaw 4 speed in the impala behind a 283. shifter is a hurst universal 4 speed, think it's an "indy." clutch is a big ass truck...
after dickin around this week (getting them balanced, sending a rim back to summit that was bent all to hell, getting a new rim and having it...
always wondered what some of ya do for this problem. i'd like to build a model of my impala with astros or steelies, can't find any. buddy of mine...
so i wanna ditch the single line pot on my 65 impala, especially since a dual line is less than 20 bucks at the parts store. question is, what am...
finally got my stuff squared away with the astros. kept two 15x8s and got the only two 15x7s that summit had, and found rubber to fit. kind of a...
buddy of mine stopped by today in his 63 to shoot the shit for a bit. car still has the original paint and interior, got it when he was 18. found...
not too long ago i did a test pour of a couple of shifter knobs. kinda figuring out the ins and outs of aluminum casting. anyhow, had some...
Lions got shut down 33 years ago last friday, so in honor of it, let's see some shots. anybody run there? let's hear about it.
read in the rodder's journal that the june '69 rod and custom had a couple of cars that interest me in it. one was a very traditional 60s style 59...
kinda swore i'd never run anything but black steelies on the car because i liked the whole "go to hell" vibe that i thought it threw off, but i've...
after a year of asking questions and hunting parts, my best friend and i finally got my 4 speed in this last week. took us three evenings to do...
tried to buy linkages from Jegs tonight and learned that there are apparently a gazillion different cast iron saginaws and half a gazillion...
pardon the dumbass question... lookin over at year one's website to do some pricing and the like on the few remaining bits that i need. they...
swapping in a saginaw 4 speed in my 65 impala and am rounding up the few remaining parts. i need a clutch fork for this whole deal and have a...
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