The Jalopy Journal
[ATTACH] Cruised the shopping center with its spectacular lights, went for dinner at Bonefish Grill, wrapping up the evening with an Old...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] I got the trunk lid latch mount roughed in for the roadster. I used bodyman in a can (long...
[ATTACH] We got down to Sarasota at 0930, got the roadster from its long nap in a storage unit and now we’re setting in our favorite local...
I got the new Grant gold ‘flake wheel for the Impala and got rid of the black foam rim one. HUGE improvement, and it’s an inch less dished than...
I mentioned to my wife that I'd decided to get rid of the T'bird, said I was going to sell it or give it away if somebody would finish it. She...
One of things I'm trying to do in my retirement is being more tolerant of stupid people, or at least tolerate the foolish questions and comments...
Well, I guess it's finally finished. Had the roadster striped by a local guy here in Sarasota, he did a great job, understood what I wanted, took...
We've spent the winter in sunny Florida, so now instead of thinking about putting a car up for winter, I'm getting a car ready to put up for the...
This is my happy face after getting the little DeSoto running properly in the Model A (picture 2[ATTACH] [ATTACH] )! I'd bought a rebuild kit for...
My buddy Mike brought the roadster down to Florida from Michigan with 2 other cars, we picked it up this morning at Salt Works Fabrication. Good...
My 70th birthday present to myself was a set of Torque Thrusts and new tires for the Impala. I have wanted a set of these wheels, on the right...
This spring I had a new, VERY expensive, aluminum driveshaft made for the '52 DeSoto wagon. The "old" one (only three years old) was smaller...
Never mind, video won't load and I can't delete this... It was me leaving cruise night at the Gilmore without a burnout or crashing. Ripping...
I've posted a couple threads about the '62 Impala we got last fall, with the little bits I've done to it since we got back to Michigan, but it...
A childhood of Saturday morning cartoons left some serious imprints on my brain. Here's one that has stuck, although the lesson may not have......
When we came down to Sarasota last fall we brought the '29 with us, in our enclosed trailer. I don't like trailering a car, for lots of reasons,...
My pals Mel, Scott and I classed up Cars and Coffee at UTC last Saturday. The only hot rods there out of over 500 cars. Topped off the morning...
Not to rub it in to my friends up north, but winter here in Sarasota doesn't suck. This a Red Silk Cotton tree just around the corner from our...
A couple days ago I was unloading groceries from the trunk of the roadster, and a guy walked up the driveway and introduced himself. He said he...
I've been tolerating a transmission leak from the TH350 behind the Hemi in the roadster since I built it. The garage at home up north has so many...
For the past month or so I'd noticed an increasing vibration with the roadster at about 50 MPH. Any faster or slower, it wasn't there, but the...
Make all the jokes you want about elderly drivers in Florida, but I've become one and it beats the Hell out of shoveling snow in Michigan. We...
Beautiful fall day here in lower Michigan, I had the Hemi Roadster and the Impala[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
Yesterday I was going to go for an afternoon drive in my "new" '62 Impala. Got in, hit the key, the starter went, "CLUNK". I'd had the ignition...
I've been busy shopping on-line (I'm not actually buying anything yet, just looking for stuff that I'll need next spring) for the Impala. I know...
Last week I drove the Impala to the oil change place, it[ATTACH] s longest trip in over 20 years. I know, I'm lazy but I don't like dealing with...
The best thing about having an interesting car is the opportunity they provide to do things, and meet people, we'd never have a chance to do...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] In order to introduce the Impala to the rest of the cars, and acclimate to it's new environs, I let it spend the first night...
I went to my buddy Kirk Brown's (AKA "Crafty B") casting class today. Great fun! He focused mainly on making patterns today, which the other...
[ATTACH] I cut up some left over material from making a cargo floor mat for the wood floor of the '52 DeSoto wagon and replaced the awful rubber...
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