The Jalopy Journal
I worked in a chrome shop plating trampoline frames, gymnastic equipment and weight machines. We plated with a dull nickel followed by a bright...
Maybe this will help? [MEDIA]
When I was a teenager my dad was on the crew of a B/SR and I spent a lot of time at the drag strip. The roadster started out with a 289 then went...
How about this hand built custom on a Corvette frame? In 1957 local tool and die maker Cecil Moore took a 1956 Vette frame, built his own...
I don't know about that. I think my buddy Harry's chopped 55 looks pretty good. I am 6' 2" and I was surprised when I rode in it with how much...
My dad did not want to hang anything off of his steering column for turn signals. So he installed a three way toggle switch on the dash running...
I don't own a hopping Impala but when I see a car with monsters and skulls painted all over it I still ask why.
In Eastern Iowa we got almost 20" of snow last week. My legs are so tried from standing by the window sipping my hot chocolate while watching my...
Yes it is. That photo was taken in 1960 when I was two years old.
The fact that it was my dad's dream car. He worked on it for 4 decades but was never ever able to finish it. My brother and I took it out of...
I vote for the Hemi just like when Jack Brazier originally built the car.
My dad's buddy called him and said he had bought a dune buggy and he wanted to swap the wheels off of it. The wheels were original 1968 Shelby...
He saw photos of other ARDUNs running this so he thought it must be the one to use. When he called me today I told him about the bad reviews they...
I had posted earlier asking about info on a ARDUN conversion for a Ford flathead that my buddy Noel was wanting to do. I followed that up with...
We were just talking about your coupe last week. I ran into the guy that bought it at the auction after Jack Brazier passed away.
"The Corvette, their supposed racing champion, was like a heavyweight boxer trying to tap dance – too damn heavy, too damn undercooked to tango...
Yes it is all his fault. [ATTACH]
Photo my dad took of Ohio George's Willys at the World Series of Drag Racing in Cordova Illinois in 1960. [ATTACH]
Just out of curiosity I looked up the 2023 SEMA show rules. Seven pages of regulations and the the do's and don'ts.
Cedar Rapids is heavy with cruise nights. The Thursday night cruise rotates weekly between four different locations around town. The Tuesday night...
Earl Wagner started racing stock cars in 1957. He moved up to super modifieds and sprint cars which he drove until the end of 1974 when he retired...
I took the cabriolet out a few weeks ago on the time honored tradition of cruisin' the avenue on Saturday night. Someone snapped this photo and...
My pet peeve is when someone asks for advice and someone else replies with YOU and YOUR car in their reply. Yea he knows it is his car and you...
What year did the Sun football tach come out?
Back in the day, were pinstripers using more than one color when they striped a car? Just curious.
I contacted my buddy Gary in the UK and asked him about this car. He said that Paul Barrow and his father started building the sedan in the 1990s....
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Mike VV, that's kind of what I figured. I've seen the squirt bottle but I never saw a tank mounted like this. Thanks!
@racer-x what is this and what is its function? [ATTACH]
The worse part of getting old is getting down on the floor to work on a car. Before dropping down you have to plan three moves ahead on how you...
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