The Jalopy Journal
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Deconstruction continues in my open air garage... If you're up in Michigan you count a shovel as an automotive tool this time of year. Pulled...
Pretty small pile for 6 weeks... shame shame shame!
Yeah! I've seen this on cars from the 20's but never on something this late before.
The other 8 are under the exhaust manifold, they run though some tubing around to the other side of the block. The rotor in the distributor has...
I'm going to streamline the engine by placing whatever I can on the firewall... coils, oil filter, etc... I want it to be clean. I'll also repaint...
All our cars have looked like that here in Bay City for the last few days... this rain/ice thing blows!
Houston, we have a power plant... '39 Nash dual plug inline eight... can I get a "hell yeah"? Headed down state this AM to meet up with a...
Nope no pick but i'm going to say its off a Mack truck...
My '61 Falcon daily driver, cruising the Michigan roads year round!
Everybody knows its the place to go for the best deviled eggs and ham man!
Thanks choptop, I've got a line on an engine thats close to me so I'm going to look at that soon.
Lol, I can't decide if those hood ornaments look like some guy with a mohawk or a roman helmet... or a roman with a mohawk! Keep the pedestrian...
I wrestled with the 4 door thing too (trying to work a deal with a guy on one close to home). All my other cars are 2 doors so it would be nice to...
Perfect! Slap any hand holding a cut off wheel that gets within 10'.
Nice ride Scott, dig that its a more door!
Made this light up wall shelf display cabinet thingy out of the rear window of a junker '27 Buick.
The engine is outta here... It was missing a few parts but I was surprised how nice it was on the inside when I pulled the head. It would cost...
It was a 27-27 standard sedan, they made 40,000+ that year. Pretty low on the value list, otherwise I wouldn't have gone wild with strip down. I...
Thats what I thought... I like how they put the axle at the rear of the spring, high cool factor!
Spent last weekend removing 15 gallons of animal bones and waste, stripping it down and selling off parts I don't need. The body will only be as...
A little sketch of what i'm shooting for and a book pic that gave me the idea years ago...
A little recap for those that missed the opening post over at the TD&H forum... Got this rotten '27 Buick held together with wire for a good...
The REO museum in Lansing MI has lots of info, they were helpfull when I was restoring a 1924 REO truck. Check them out online and see if they can...
Was scraping crusty grease/undercoating off a frame one night. The stuff was really on there good so I was working the screwdriver in the corner...
Whats a good helmet to have?
Looks like a torpedo....
Who knows but I see stuff for sale on CL "from the Packard plant" alot!
I like the idea of a buick straight eight... probably mate up to the closed driveline better. I toyed with the idea of using the cowl... taking...
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