The Jalopy Journal
There’s been some strange weather around here lately, and I already tried explaining it once. Wrote a long, painfully honest post about traffic,...
Ryan submitted a new blog post: The Second Coming [IMG] I'll say it once and let the pearl-clutchers sort themselves out: the second version...
Ryan submitted a new blog post: Danger Is The Point [IMG] I was just starting to settle in. The move was horrible. My body is still wrecked,...
Ryan submitted a new blog post: The Tom Cobbs Coupe? [IMG] Tom Cobbs beat the hell out of his roadster for the better part of a decade,...
Ryan submitted a new blog post: A Bill Paid in Blood [IMG] November 1941. Throttle Magazine turns one year old and slaps a baby in a Bell...
Ryan submitted a new blog post: The Comanche [IMG] With any luck, this will be the last week I live without my archive. That probably sounds...
Ryan submitted a new blog post: The Shape Of Tomorrow [IMG] I'm here. Boulder. The mountains are doing that thing they do at dusk where they...
Ryan submitted a new blog post: THE STOVEBOLT GOSPEL: A Machine Built by Squirrels [IMG] Ladies and gentlemen, I am cooked. Every joint has...
Ryan submitted a new blog post: Move Day [IMG] I have come to the conclusion that adulthood is an elaborate confidence game designed by people...
Ryan submitted a new blog post: Go Away Garage [IMG] My body’s about cooked. Two or three years spent folded over a keyboard, slowly evolving...
Packet of water transfer decals sent to me by Ed Roth sometime in the late 1990s... [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Ryan submitted a new blog post: The Turtle That Swallowed Tomorrow [IMG] I’ve always had a theory about custom cars... The truly great ones...
So, how many VietNam era MedBins does it take to hold every issue of every hot rod and custom publication from 1945 to 1965 ever published? Turns...
Ryan submitted a new blog post: 50 To Life [IMG] Back in the 1980s, the US Customs & Border Protection Agency was so obsessed with cocaine...
When’s the last time you saw a Dragmaster and a Chassis Research dragster, both restored, both rolling, parked side by side like two old...
Ryan submitted a new blog post: The Men Who Painted Tomorrow [IMG] I knew Jim Secreto as a photographer. The guy spent years shooting Big...
Let me be perfectly clear about something. The authorities in this county and I have reached a rare kind of understanding. They don’t care for...
Ryan submitted a new blog post: Four Feet Away & Going Nowhere [IMG] The plan was simple. Build a bracket racer out of a '38 Ford coupe. That...
Ryan submitted a new blog post: Zora's Revenge! [IMG] Twenty-seven years ago, I sat down to write an article about Ardun heads. At the time, I...
Ryan submitted a new blog post: Perpetual Motion Machine [IMG] Scattered through my research on Tom Cobbs and his family are references to...
Ryan submitted a new blog post: Tom Cobbs: The 1949 Indy 500 [IMG] We've been running the Tom Cobbs archive in real time, which means when I...
Ryan submitted a new blog post: Betty Skelton Didn't Ask Permission [IMG] Let's get something straight right now. The men running American...
Ryan submitted a new blog post: The Ballad of Jeff Norwell and a Very Bad Friday Night [IMG] Let's get something straight about Jeff Norwell....
Ryan submitted a new blog post: The Classifieds: First Two Pages… [IMG] About that time again, gentlemen. Time to go dumpster diving through...
Ryan submitted a new blog post: Receipts From The Dry Lakes [IMG] Now look… under normal circumstances I wouldn’t run the same man twice in a...
Ryan submitted a new blog post: Good Clean Crime: The Fabian Valdez Files [IMG] I first crossed paths with Fabian Valdez at the Grand National...
Ryan submitted a new blog post: GOD BLESS THE FLAT HEADS! [IMG] A few weeks back, we were blessed by the Tom Cobbs archive yet again... Buried...
Ryan submitted a new blog post: The Heretic from Maranello [IMG] Giotto Bizzarrini was not a stylist. He was not some silk-scarf romantic...
Ryan submitted a new blog post: Detonator's RPU [IMG] While at the Lonestar Round Up this past weekend, I found myself parked on a bench with...
Ryan submitted a new blog post: Guerrilla Prints & Notes From The 23rd Round Up [IMG] The 23rd Lonestar Round Up came in under a low,...
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