The Jalopy Journal
[IMG] In March, I and Olav are flying into California to host our first Customs by the Sea car show in Santa Barbara, California together with...
[IMG] I'm excited to announce that Kustomrama's 4th annual Customs by the Sea in Wildwood, New Jersey will be held June 10-11, 2017. What do...
[IMG] East Coast. West Coast. This year we're doing them both! - June 4-5 the 3rd annual Customs by the Sea will be held in Wildwood,...
Life is strange. And I guess the story of the Kustomrama Dream Truck goes all the way back to 2010, when buddy "Blomster Martin" asked me if I...
[IMG] Attending this years Race of Gentlemen was the closest thing I have been to a 1940s dry lakes event! Mel, Bobby and the rest of the Oilers...
[IMG] Kustomrama is coming abroad! When the organizers of the Race of Gentlemen asked us if we wanted to help them organize a REAL custom car...
[IMG] Back in 1957 John Sak of Syracuse, New York set off to restyle his third 1941 Ford, a Converible named "Barbie". After three years of...
Richard "Korky" Korkes is a legendary East Coast customizer. At age 17, in 1952, Korky customized his first car, a 1946 Ford convertible. He went...
[IMG] Herbert "Bud" Unger is one of my all time favorite custom car builders! Bud started customizing cars in the Maryland/Washington D.C. area...
Some weeks ago I received an email containing several old dry lakes photos from the 1940s and 1950s. The photos came from the collection of Chuck...
The last couple of years I have been privileged and lucky enough to be able to share a bunch of great photo collections over on Kustomrama. As I...
[IMG] The 4th annual Coupe Devils Rod & Kustom Bonanza is now only a week away!! We can't wait to host our 4th gathering, and look forward to see...
well....it actually took 9 hours...and it ain't done yet. But during the chop we put up a go pro camera taking 1 photo a minute. I have now...
I often find hidden treasures in old Motor Trend magazines from the early 1950s. Last week as I were looking through an issue of Motor Trend...
[IMG] Our 3rd annual Coupe Devils Rod & Kustom Bonanza are only 2 months away! I hope to see a lot of Scandinavian HAMB'ers at this years...
I am looking for old monster/weirdo paintings by pinstriping artists such as Von Dutch, Dean Jeffries, Larry Watson and more! These were often...
May 21st - 23rd, 2010 the Coupe Devils of Norway held our 2nd annual Rod & Kustom Bonanza in Blaker, just outside of Oslo, Norway. The turnout...
I hope to see as many scandinavian hambers as possible at our 2nd Annual Coupe Devils Rod & Kustom Bonanza during the weekend of 21st-23rd of May!...
In 20 days myself and a fellow Coupe Devils member is leaving the cold weather of Norway, heading for Austin! We arrive on the 1st of April, and...
[IMG] [IMG] Today somebody sent me a copy of the march issue of "The Antique Expression - Gulf Coast Region, Houston, Texas" The cover of that...
It seems like this message board is full of "older" members that drove cool sleds and hopped up jalopies in the 1950s. They lurk around here, and...
Steve, one of the admins over at internet movie cars database sent me some images of the Green Hornets Lincoln Zephyr used in the original series...
While doing a little research about the X-Sonic for my website Kustomrama (Click here to check out the story) I stumbled across a newly written...
During the 1950s hundreds, or maybe even thousands of cars went through the doors at the Barris Kustoms shop. Some received extensive restyling...
Bought a polaroid photo album some weeks ago containing some rod and kustom photos taken in Iowa around 1956. Amongst these photos was this neat...
Last Saturday (September 26th), Viken Rod & Custom, and Throwhill hosted a Dirt Track Race at Kala Raceway in Sarpsborg, Norway. 32 pre 64 cars...
I heard that some classy cars went really cheap at the auction, did anyone here on the HAMB buy any of the cars?
I recently got these 3 photos showing a 40s ford belonging to a member of the Windy City Winders Car Club of Illinois. The car has a distinctive...
The Coupe Devils hosted our first Rod & Kustom Bonanza at Bruvollen in Blaker, near Oslo, Norway this weekend. It was our first try hosting a...
A couple of weeks ago, google presented their new searchable LIFE magazine photo search! A really great service that made you able to search...
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