The Jalopy Journal
Saturday February 13th vintage auto racing movies on the MOVIESTVNETWORK: 1:15pm pst- PIT STOP 3:15pm pst- GREASED LIGHTING 5:25pm pst- LE MANS
The 1960's racing motion picture "PIT STOP" will air this Saturday at 9:55pm on the West coast, 12:55am Sunday morning on the East coast on the...
Bob Hogle passed away October 2, 2020. Bob was the 1963 and 1968 CRA Sprint Car Champion. Bob had 68 CRA main event wins, 21 fast times and 38...
Nostalgia history book "Memories of the California Jalopy Association". Now in its 4th printing. 288 pages. 1,555 action packed photos of...
Here is the FREE 2021 California Jalopy Nostalgia Calendar featuring the cars of the California Jalopy Association during the early 1950's. The...
Full disclosure, I don't own the "real thing", a HAMB friendly car or truck, but I'm "old school" in my likes and wisdom, about vintage cars. I do...
We have all seen the vintage 1950's Indy 500 highlight movies and heard that one- of- a -kind NOVI engine rumble. Can that sound be reproduced on...
Today, as I riding shotgun with my sister when we departed an office building, I discovered a remarkable stash of HAMB friendly cars parked at a...
From the collection of Jumpin' Jack Summers, a popular race flag starter in Southern California at race tracks such as Western Speedway and Ascot...
Well, I must be the last one to know this but in the 1964 movie "Goldfinger", in all the street scenes that are supposed to be boulevards in...
Full disclosure, I'm not selling the magazine mentioned, and I'm not affiliated with the person who is selling. This is about a Holy Grail...
Recently seen at Donut Derelicts Huntington Beach, CA. Photos taken by my friend Larry Tracy. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Ascot Park, California. 1969 Figure-8 racing. I was all ready to call car #195 a Chevy Impala, but, upon further review, it looks to my untrained...
It's time for the FREE 2020 California Jalopy Nostalgia Calendar, featuring the cars of the California Jalopy Association in the Los Angeles area...
Roger Penske just bought the Indy Motor Speedway. Wow!!!
The Nethercutt Car museum is only about 1-mile from a major nighttime windblown wildfire blaze in Sylmar on Thursday night. All the streets being...
Sid Haig, star of the 1960's racing film "Pit Stop" died on Saturday September 21st. He was 80 years old. In the movie "Pit Stop", Haig played a...
Heavily promoted in the Los Angeles area in the early 1960s during afternoon kid cartoon shows was the Perrywheel, a aftermarket steering wheel by...
Saturday night August 11, 1962, 57 years ago. Orange Show Speedway, Southern California. Fan favorite Hot Rod racer Vallie Engelauf gives 6 of his...
EXTRA, EXTRA, read all about it! The historic nostalgia book "Memories of the California Jalopy Association" will now be printed for the 4th time....
Vintage Ford Edsels at Irwindale Speedway CA. July 4, 2019 [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
Just had another big, big quake So-Cal, 8:25pm Friday. This was big!!!
Vintage airline service truck at an airport in 1969. Plane in the background is a United Airlines DC-6B. The vintage of the truck is unknown....
Vintage Chevy Nova car club gathering at Irwindale Speedway, California Saturday May 11, 2019. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
Back in the 1950's/early 1960's we had our milk delivered to our doorstep in Southern California by Inglewood Farms Dairy. By about 1968 the dairy...
It was reported in the local newspaper that Roger Bacon, 88, died on February 28th, of pneumonia. Roger Bacon was a son to Les Bacon, owner of the...
Has anyone ever seen photos of Atkinson's Used Cars on Colorado Blvd. in Pasadena, CA.? The lot was owned by Art Atkinson, the famed jalopy...
My RANT: FAKE 1949 Chevrolet Fleetline "Deluxe" Front Fender Emblem. It seems that every example on EBAY, even the claimed OEM, are not the real...
Here is the FREE 2019 California Jalopy Nostalgia Calendar. The calendar is 8 1/2 X 11 inches in size and features the cars of the California...
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