The Jalopy Journal
If you don't wanna read a "downer," then by all means pass this by. I don't blame you a bit. I've not been able to so much as lurk a lot lately,...
Yeah, it took me a while to find any Hasil Adkins music after watchin' that one...had two copies, someone stole both of 'em :mad: Everyone but me...
Not just any tripod will do...it should be a full-kustom one with bubble tops on the leveling bubbles. Neat stuff you have there...only one of...
@#*@& Government regulations! Makes me wish someone would put 3/8" steel plates in front of the airbags in the EPA eco-gestapo's fleet of Priuses.
Thanks :D
I think they're capacitors...they look like ignition condensers to me. Sorry, no pics...but someone who knows about vintage AM radios will know...
Eh...well, I occasionally sing, sometimes with a backup band, other times with just background tracks, or just me and a guitar. My favorite gig is...
That car is...words fail me, I like it even if it IS a late-model:D
Shorten it? Man, short beds are for people with short peders, that whole relativity thing comes into play in situations like this. j/k There...
I dunno, maybe I'm way off here, but I envision either a leather or older paper shade with a 1940's embossed/litho (maybe hand painted and...
amen. although...I learned to wear gloves when welding because of my now mangled fingerprints that bear little resemblance to what they were when...
The first I heard of "The New Jersey Fonze" was in one of the Rod and Custom magazines when they covered Lead East back in the early 90s I...
Thanks. I seem to be losing myself in a wilderness of molehills on this car lately...the bike wreck must still be affecting the "what if" section...
The '56 chieftain has left handed wheel studs and lugnuts on the Driver's side, I thought I could find them in the catalog at work...no dice. The...
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Sadly, that's true. Who's gonna step up and teach the young'ns the right way to do stuff? A shop owner might go through ten or fifteen people...
I thought of that, when Mom heard about it she said the same thing;)
After thinking about this instead of sleeping like I should've... Is it the common mindset as discussed herein that results in the lack of proper...
Decatur, Alabama...wow, I must've been within a couple miles of that car several times in my life...LoL, Glad you found it, and good luck if ya...
:eek: are those dirt dobber nests? I've done that bad before, brought back scary memories, but...a guy's gotta learn either by example or by...
Yep, something was wrong alright...I forgot to turn the temporary fuel pump switch off :o bad bad bad bad bad. But, it made me realize what could...
That's kinda what I took from his post as well... I wonder what people are gonna think when we start importing vintage cars from Cuba though? I...
This is pretty much the same reason I left the auto body trade a couple years after finishing schooling. I worked for three different body shops...
I am one of the first to boo-hiss at modern stuff on old cars, but after a near disaster the other day (electric fuel pump stayed on after killing...
Yep. I remember that all too well....I also remember this. I really would prefer not to buy ANYTHING from such a hellish place. Sad thing is, you...
unless I'm looking at it wrong...mine says #31? Seems my number was waaaay higher back before the later versions of HAMB...like, back when those...
No kiddin'....I wanna know more too...I may just wind up with a "what if" Pontiac substitute for this one....wow!
Was gonna reply with the correct title...but you got to it first! Grandpa had that 8-track in their old Caddy, along with others by Frank...
okie dokie, was just curious. I haven't seen too many that were manual. If any of y'all use a different radio than stock, and plan on throwin'...
Thanks! The daily driver is down too, so I'm kinda having to hurry this one along, but I can't just rush it, LoL...I was content to ride the O/T...
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