The Jalopy Journal
I live in Montana, out in the boondocks. I bought the place from my sister, and she was the third person to put a house out here. There was one...
I got a 55 Willys wagon about a month ago. A friend sent me this about a week later. He found it somewhere online. [ATTACH]
38 Dodge half ton pickup. Set up for SBC, TH350. Has Mopar 8 3/4 rearend, Mustang II front suspension. Was planning on replacing the front...
I give my neighbors the same courtesy they give me. At 3-4 in the morning on July 5th, my drunken neighbor was still shooting off fireworks. At...
I found that if I have an old car setting in the yard and someone complains, putting a "for sale" sign on it makes the authorities leave me alone....
54 International R-110. Bought it almost as it sets, paid $1500 and drove it home. Spent a weekend cleaning the pieces of gas tank float (cork)...
Uhhhh, Merc...? What Merc....? Oh... the Car... Yeah it's nice, too.
Oh duh. You cannot measure the pattern for a 5 bolt wheel ACCURATELY using the edge of one hole to the center of another. The reason? Because...
wow. Can't think of anything else to say. Just, wow.
On eBay they sell a coil spring lift kit. There are a couple of sizes up to about an inch thick. They set under the coil spring and can give you...
Recently acquired along with a pile of parts. Current out of pocket investment is about $200.
I hate thieves. I had a good friend in high school that taught me a lot about cars. This guy had a body shop and repo'd cars on the side. He...
"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU NEED ANOTHER CAR FOR?" I can't believe none of you came up with not just the right answer, but THE answer. It's the number...
My 49 F1. Doesn't look like much yet. It's already had one incarnation as a Hot Rod. What you can't see is that it still has a set of cheater...
(1) 1956 Nomad (or 2 door sedan), 327, huffer, 4 speed, all black. (2) 1967/68 Firebird, 400 V8. (3) 61 Starliner. (4) 57 Pontiac, two door or...
Not sure how much this will help. My brother, whose credit score is lower than whale crap on the bottom of the ocean, managed to get a loan on a...
Avatar: Had to sell mine a couple of decades ago, when I retired from the military. Couldn't drive it, a 61 Chevy, and a 61 Galaxie across country...
In high school I worked in a farm equipment repair shop. One fo the things they did was work on split rims for pickups. One of the guys finished a...
Funny, I get the same crap about people misspelling my first name or telling me that I'm spelling it wrong. It's "Denis", with one "N". A long...
One of my favorite "expert dumbass". I went to Checker Auto to get points, plugs, condenser, cap, rotor and wires for my 61 Chevy. Told the guy it...
How about a shortened pickup? (see avatar)
:rolleyes: I never heard of anyone going "irs" or "Internal" or "Revenuer". But even the Marines say someone has gone "Postal". :)
Okay, not the best lookin car, but it has potential. But the gal? Only word I can think of is UNBUFUGLY. That's short for unbelievably f**kin...
My Grandfather had the first Ford Phaeton in the state of Montana. He worked for the Railroad and had it brought, via rail, to Montana from...
Currently I work for the most feared government agency in the world, the US Postal Service. I'm a Mail Processing Equipment Mechanic and work on...
Just yesterday, a coworker told me that "You should never handle electronic components until you're ready to install them because the more you...
The only picture I have of my old 66 C10 is the one in my avatar. I found it at an RV dealership in Albuquerque a few decades back. The dealership...
Mine is the one that was. My last real toy. Had to sell it when I retired from the military a few decades past, because there was no way we could...
I've had several barn finds over the years. My first barn find: In high school, I was working on my brother-in-laws ranch, and found a 46 ford out...
Heck, I like it just the way it is. It's different.
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