The Jalopy Journal
This came up, as it does, in the course of looking for something else: [IMG] Eight motorcycle-style Dell'Ortos (presumably SS1-42s) on a Cadillac...
I post this with some trepidation lest I equip some people with just enough knowledge to screw things up entirely. I've mentioned heuristics...
During the course of an internal rant about fast electric cars I was led to make a discovery which might point to a better working definition of a...
I don't have a copy handy, but I seem to recall Lord Montagu of Beaulieu arguing in Lost Causes of Motoring: Europe (1969) that the demise of...
This comes up in so many places — engine cooling, interior cooling, component heat shielding, exhaust systems, etc. — that it's probably a good...
Around the end of the HAMB's focus era, Detroit had a minor craze for concept cars inspired by the hot rod phenomenon. It could be argued that...
Kids these days. Fender flares have existed for as long as I've been into cars, but the way they talk you'd think they were invented last week and...
Most pre-WWII cars I can think of had the pedals pivoting on the frame. It suits the straightforward early ladder frame concept: pretty much...
It's fairly common, and in our world mostly associated with T-buckets and lakes modifieds — and then as a general rule on fenderless cars:...
I don't know if it takes a particular kind of weird brain, but I've discovered a fascination for instrumentation. I've spent pretty much all of...
I've been developing a fondness for the aesthetics of liquid-cooled WWII-era aero engines: lots of gloss black paint and rows of bright fasteners....
One of those trains of thought I tend to have when left unsupervised. It occurred to me that this is one Frank (@FishFry ) in Germany might find...
What would you say was the most common wheel bolt pattern during the HAMB's focus era? 5x4¼"? 5x4½"? 5x4¾"? Or perhaps a decade or even two...
I'd been aware for a while that there was a lot of similarity in ID between early Ford and MGB wheel bearings. The outer bearings have identical...
Of the things which illustrate the technological ethos of what we call the traditional era, none is clearer than all the stuff you could at one...
A number of people on the HAMB have used engine-driven on-board air systems based on repurposed air-conditioning compressors, e.g. this, this,...
[ATTACH] This isn't going to be a build thread. I'd done something like a design thread before, but this is a bit different. It's not so much...
I've searched, but I can't find the right term for the part of a '20s/early '30s front fender which closes the space between the fender arch and...
I got to thinking about suicide doors and pin-type suicide door safety latches after commenting on the recent thread about ingress/egress on early...
I'd like to see photographs of the different ways headers have been handled on full-fendered, OHV V8-powered Model As, especially with full hoods....
I don't mean to make most of you jealous; in fact it is I who am jealous of most of you. If it were practical I'd gladly take a good chunk of snow...
First off, lest I get myself into deep doo-doo, I need to state very clearly that what I'm about to present is exploratory conjecture and nothing...
If anyone likes to mess around in SketchUp, I've created a 3D model of a stock Model A frame. Here's a render: [ATTACH] PM me and I'll e-mail the...
Could I get some gut reactions to the proportions of this? [ATTACH]
Here's another sourcebook-type thread of ideas and inspirations. Weird gauges; the weirdest will probably be speedometers, but who knows? Vertical...
I seem to recall reading about four-speeds turned on their sides. I can't remember the context but it sort of feels like something which might...
This is a hypothetical question. I don't have a manifold with several carbs on it on the table in front of me, nor am I even particularly thinking...
Here's something I've been reading up on. I'd known that attaching a voltmeter to an O2 sensor can produce a nifty mixture gauge, useful even on...
Is there any historic precedent for the use of dropped spindles on beam axles, instead of a dropped axle? If any photographic documentation exists...
This was six weeks ago, life being what it is. There was a small crop of traditional-style hot rods at the 2019 South African Street Rod...
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