The Jalopy Journal
It happens to me everytime I take stuff to the swapmeet, I don't mind cause I got money in my pocket and I am not hauling back home. I did have a...
Long time back my younger sis who had never had anything nice in her life had her older car painted, a couple days out of the paint shop some...
It was the Starlite drive in for me, did all the same things described in the previous posts and then sometime in the seventies they played the...
There is one better, a hot Allison V-12 through zoomies!:D
Thats some funny shit!!!:D:D
Wife talked me into taking a trip there a long time ago. Shit is so expensive there a hot rod is probably out of the question for all but the most...
My uncle always said "anything can fly if you throw it hard enough"
At the thickness of a body panel even at extreme temperature changes, the thermal expansion would be so minute that it would be very hard to...
Now if the art is on the back how is it gonna hide all the food stains?:D I vote front.
If I were buying a new welder it would probably be a miller 212. I have owned a clarke 235e turbo for about 11 years and I have welded frames,...
Thanks for posting the pic's, damn I wish I could have been there!
Learned about "leverage" the hard way. My FIL to be at the time had a ford jubilee tractor and he broke the tranny trying to stay out of a ravine....
Bring Ronnie "Tilly" Tillman with you, tell him Buddy from Shawnee said so!:D
late 70's I have a 68 roadrunner 440 4 speed, cam, headers, 411 rear not fast but I thought it was. A friend of mine has a mid sixties chevyII...
Mid 70's in my little town of Shawnee Okla our bad ass cars consisted of stuff like a fairly fast 67 GTO, 70 chevelle big block car, 68 baracuda...
It is the absolute truth, I have some other stories I will share but none as colorful as yours, you are a great story teller and I enjoy reading...
Man it's amazing you can have a sense of humor after suffering like that. You sir are an inspiration!:)
Back in 76 my best friend and me are hanging out at the Brown Derby drive-in in my 68 road runner. He and I are both in lust with a couple of the...
Kickapoo street Shawnee Oklahoma, cruise through the Brown Derby drive-in, A&W drive-in etc. Graduated in 75, still cruisin Kickapoo and the Brown...
Sounds like a good time! Maybe try to get a few to cruise down from Shawnee.
Welcome from another Okie!:D
Best thing I ever used was naptha but can't find it locally anymore so I use mineral spirits. Mineral spirits seem to work well but not nearly as...
I have a HF benchtop gearhead mill and 12x36 gearhead lathe, they are not the best equipment but will do as good a job as the man running it. I...
http://www.carnut.com/ This site has a lot of pictures.
Shawnee swapmeet 5, 6, 7 March at the Expo center, Shawnee, Ok
All the vega's I ever dealt with never ran long enough to need a plug change!:D
What I've heard is front wheel drive cars were invented by an engineer who caught a mechanic sleeping with his wife!:D
A freind of mine's Dad had one very similar in his corvair, it worked pretty well as I remember.
I bought an enderle bug catcher complete setup off a running chevy 454 that was fairly streetable, 2 of the air inlets have been blocked off...
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