The Jalopy Journal
Doug Nash used to recommend adding a small bottle of the GM Positraction additive to the gear oil but I don't think Richmond recommends anymore...
When I moved into my current house last summer and had to mow the lawn for the first time, I wore the shortest Levi cut-off shirts you could ever...
I like the primitive bushing over the bearing also but I've always wondered why I must be the only person on the planet that has to keep an...
The evil, black '55 Chevy from American Graffitti . . . hands down. George Lucas (the greatest story teller of our generation) used a Black '55...
German-made Flitz polish is great stuff that leaves a silicone film and a shine that lasted longer than anything else I tried.
Gotta agree about the motorcycle jack. I purchased that cool all-aluminum Craftsman jack from Sears and quickly learned that it wouldn't work on...
I gotta agree about avoiding swivel vices. The most important feature of a vice needs to be rigidity and you lose that with a swivel feature....
Back around 20-25 years ago, one of the drag mags asked Dale Armstrong on what would be the ultimate Fuel car and his concept was front engined....
I'll be the first to welcome you here. I don't know if we've ever met in person here in STL but we do have many mutual friends and I've heard...
I really can't tell if there's a sexual reference here or not but either way it sounds like a great time!
I've always thought studded snow tires.
Took me years to finally getting around to seeing this movie because I had low expectations of it. Instead, I ended up really liking it. Great...
I've always questioned which exact car was flipped over in that final scene. People say that it was just a junker, but if you look closely that...
Share your pain all to well. I lost everything in a house fire back in Feburary. If the fire doesn't get to it, then the smoke damage and water...
Time Bomb.
1965 Chevrolet Evening Orchid. A bitchin' one year only factory color. Sure, there will be some naysayers that might give you shit by asking why...
Yep, they made them and they are a great looking car with the Bel Air Sport Coupe being more scarce than it's Bel Air Post Sedan counterpart....
The story I get from the video is that the three chicks are chasin' Billy because he's late on his child support payments.
Been there, done that. The water pump bearing wears out real quick when the fan clutch goes bad like that and it'll even break off water pump...
One of the funniest threads I've ever read that has gone off course into outer space. It starts with ET vs. Rockets, vertical vs. angled valve...
My father once owned a Red '65 Riviers GS with the dual quad 425 in the late Seventies. It was one of his favorite cars and that's really saying...
Sometimes you just gotta ask yourself "Do I want a garage/basement cluttered with cool car parts scattered everywhere or would i rather have an...
I normally don't feel comfortable feeling like I have to add my two cents Ryan's excellent selections but my mind keeps spitting out images, so...
This is one of my all time favorite threads and I'm thrilled that the stories have picked up again!
You can buy a pretty thin (1/2 inch) carb spacer that has a 3/8 hose barb built into it and mount that between the carb and blower. That way you'd...
Thanks for the nice words from everybody. I have lost my wallet, car titles, college diplomas, countless documents, rare car parts, family photos,...
The General Motors HEI Distributor is one of mankind's greatest mechanical achievments. It's right up there with the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing. A...
It's really not as bad of a movie as many people think. I actually really like it. It's just difficult to watch it without trying to compare it to...
Anything is breakable . . . . even the much vaunted M-22 can be destroyed if a Ronnie Sox wanna-be attempts a super fast shift and lets out the...
Interesting stuff. Thanx for sharing and listing the part #'s. I have the same progressive linkage kit for the Killer Biscuit so I saved this...
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