The Jalopy Journal
We are camping at a local state park here in Michigan, with our '47 Spartan Manor trailer which we hauled over with the Diamond T. Lots of...
I'm working on our son's '65 Ranch Wagon fixing some minor fender bender damage that happened in their driveway. I have a scissor lift, but it's...
I've succumbed to peer pressure and bought steel wheels, which I painted body color the other day, and big and little tires for the roadster to...
After some internal debate as to making something to hold the hood top on the roadster, vs buying something, I bit the bullet and bought LimeWorks...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] A few days ago I posted about the HF stud welder I bought to fix our son's family fun car, a '65 Ranch Wagon. It has taken me a...
Four years ago our '51 Pontiac Tin Woody wagon was totaled by some brain-dead redneck in an F150 4x4 looking at his cell phone, too busy to notice...
I shot some 2K on the 'glass '32 hood top for the Model A today, and it was good... On the 7th day I think I'll be able to shoot some color on...
Last fall our son's '65 Ranch Wagon was damaged when he pulled it out of their garage, and left it half across his wife's garage door. The...
I'd used a generic turn signal switch from Speedway in the roadster, because it had provision for 4 way flashers. It was ugly, and it soon...
Our son has a '65 Ford Ranch Wagon with a 352. It was stored at our house over the winter, on a battery tender. I wanted to move it today so I...
Burgundy leather, with the plaid, or houndstooth?[ATTACH][ATTACH]
I'd bought this 'glass '32 hood from a buddy last year, intending to simply use it as a pattern to make an aluminum one. A couple days ago I got...
My friend Bill McGuire (Hot Rod magazine Detroit editor at the time) shared this photo that he took of my '36 at the "Relix Riot" car show 10...
This year seems to be the year of doing over stuff that I scrimped on a decade ago. It's the Diamond T truck now, getting a new steering column...
There were LOTS of big boxes on our porch this morning, a shipment from Speedway that I ordered on Sunday. 15" wheels, ribbed trim rings, and...
Now that we're back in Michigan, I am addressing some long overdue issues with some of our stuff. The Diamond T truck was uncomfortable because...
We got back from Florida on Friday, the first thing I did was go out to the shop and fire everything up. Thanks to my exhaustive winter prep...
We're back from our winter home, the first thing I did was fire up the roadster. Next year we're taking it down to Sarasota with us! [MEDIA]
I've only been able to go once in the 5 months we've been here, but I'm making it this Saturday. Anyone going to squeeze in between the new...
We're down here in Sarasota for the season, while the roadster is home taking a long winters nap. (I'm trying to get a carport built, but...
Here we go... https://www.facebook.com/1312132558/videos/pcb.10229922229142491/822808815537740
We've had (with the exception of one day last week of rain, big, fat snowflakes that didn't stick and cold) REALLY nice weather this fall. Sunny,...
Cold, rainy fall day question: I just passed on an Edmunds 2x2 BBL intake for my little DeSoto Hemi. Carbs, probably need rebuilt from setting,...
And, taking advantage of a beautiful late October day here in SW lower Michigan, my wife and I took the roadster to The Gilmore for a walk on the...
40 degrees and spitting rain, occasional bursts of sunshine. it's supposed to be sunny and low 70's by the weekend, so we'll hope to get some...
...Or, shames me into doing something, I'm not sure which. After a summer of not really driving the Diamond T much (the wagon and the Roadster...
The automatic choke on the '52 DeSoto Hemi in my roadster wasn't connected when I got the car it came out of. There's a port on the choke,...
We drove the roadster to dinner last night at the "Moose" lodge, then on to our friends "Crafty B" and "The Stitch" for a bourbon on the porch and...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] I had enough left over FRP to cut trunk liner panels for the Hemi Roadster from, and almost enough of the...
I got a burst of ambition today and cleaned up the shop. Not spotless, but a lot of stuff that was just on the floor is up in the new (to me)...
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