The Jalopy Journal
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Ray -- You're an inspiration to more people than you could ever imagine. Besides that, you're one hell of a striper/sign...
I think you’re right about the Klentz name, but it’s gotta be super rare. I did a Google on Klentz with “quick change in...
Comment 1: “His dad built the car for his mother in about '88 or so.” Comment 2: “If he was really bummed about not being...
A friend on the Shoebox site is bolting together the pieces of his 49 Mercury, and has a problem with the fender-to hood gap. Its great at the...
Good shop, great work, lousy website. Go to https://www.squeegskustoms.com/squeegs-orderform.html and you get this: There is a problem with...
Before you start -- have you looked at the '49 and '50 Merc shells? They're a lot smoother and fit the Shoebox Fords a lot more easily. Not...
Happy Birthday from all the CARBS here 50 miles south. When we finally meet you in person, we know it'll be the high point of that year.
Around here in the Midwest, on a lot of the local "show" customs, the pipes just hung there and weren't hooked up. On the higher end customs,...
ACD hands down. For cars, I'm more interested in the Studes, but we're talking the museums, not the cars, and the ACD always has great displays...
Choosing the CAR is easy for me -- it's gotta be Ron Dunn's shoebox that was sectioned at Valley Custom. Now my problem is choosing between the...
As another 1940 model, everything HotRod1940 said is dead on. As I've remarked here on occasion, we printed COURTESY CARDS back in 1957 when...
Falfa would have saved the Buford -- he felt bad enough about the '55 he rolled on Paradise Road! (clue: http://www.aintitcool.com/node/32672 )
I've usually found the local radiator shop (any of them) can build/rebuild a good radiator cheaper than anything new. If you want specifics on...
Buy one. Read it. If you don't realize what you just bought, then you don't have to buy another one. If you DO realize what you bought, no...
Boyd's not really important here -- what matters is "WHAT'S THE HUMIDITY IN OKLAHOMA?". Because I'd love to see a mint '57 Plymouth again....
I've never really had a "Show" rod, but I never wanted one after the year Ed Roth debuted the "Beatnik Bandit 2" at Cobo Hall. I was standing...
Crease -- I feel for you, but I'm up here in the rust belt. Do we have Hambers in the San Antonio area that could take a look? If not, I guess...
As an officially-sanctioned NHRA flag starter in the 1950s who found himself flagging (definitely UNofficial) street races on the uncompleted...
Somewhere north of $10, Gracie'll get parked until a Hydrogen/Electric/Hybrid comes to market that replaces an SBC comes to market. The roadster...
...always had a problem with the "one tail fin", because he started in '49. Now I've got it -- I'm a car guy since 1954, but I didn't know anyone...
It'll fit, the boards themselves aren't a problem, but watch out for the heat bubbling the paint on the aprons.
My wife (here in Northwest Ohio) said this morning, "Easter's been and gone, our tax refund check is cashed and spent, why is there an inch of...
While it saddens all of us to lose him, isn't it great that he had such a successful life and was able to enjoy the rewards that came from his...
66 here, just like the route and the same as my '40 Chev. Unlike the Chev, I'm still running the original drivetrain.
Mine was integral with the old master cylinder. Since I went with a dual master cylinder setup, I also went with the standard NAPA mechanical...
In an obscure reference to those British mop-heads of 1964 -- "Arthur".
I worked at Willys-Overland in the 1960s just after it was bought by Kaiser Industries. Pretty quickly we got separated out as just the...
I heard a story years ago that Ghia asked Virgil Exner (who designed the D'Elegance) if he'd object to their "borrowing" the concept for a smaller...
Are the days gone when a guy's first post can ask about a frame swap and go without 27 instant flames about no intro? Are we all just sitting on...
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