The Jalopy Journal
If you look closer at the photo from the passenger rear you'll be able to see my CVA member decal - Continuous member #1275 since 1987, and should...
So I was walking around the Fremont Swap Meet this morning and ran into a few good long-time friends and fellow HAMBers. "Hey, did you see there's...
Dog dishes and 1-3/4"-wide whites plus trim rings over body-colored rims.
Does that come in a Size 9E, Chief?
I pulled the pedal/cable from a '72 Torino that was wrecked and sitting at my friend's repair shop in the early '80s and cut/welded the pedal arm...
Out of the blue this afternoon my boss asks me to come into his office. He begins quizzing me about T-buckets and wanting to buy one to tool...
Sorry, but a gold engine to me says "Oldsmobubble." I'm geeked out on this. There's actually a few variations of gold for the valve covers and air...
For me it started in the mid-'60s watching my cousins building AMT kits while I had to settle for the cheap 1/32-scale Palmer kits around '67-'68,...
Short-lived repair - no power to top switch to run pump - deck lid stuck open. Crap...
57 Buick grille ornament
I liked the hidden lights/door suggestion, then I saw this. Makes more sense a'la '67-'69 T-bird or '66-'67 Charger with "sucker mouth" grille and...
22 years ago I was kinda in the same boat - wanted a HAMB-friendly 'chero or Elky, then lowered my sights for decent last-generation ('77-'79)...
Got my car back from the restoration shop this morning - replaced original top and deck lid cylinders, hoses and hydraulic pump. Blew a hose over...
Look for "moleskin" channel liner. Try Restoration Parts & Supply (?) in PA. I got a roll of it from Northwest Classic Falcon over a decade ago...
There is a reason why '61-'63 T-bird owners convert to the '64-style idler arm/bracket assembly - it's beefier. The idler arm assembly (arm,...
You'd have to ream a 15-degree taper into the ball joint stud receivers to use full-size Galaxie spindles IIRC. That's what I remember from a...
May be trivial to many, but when a person has been chained to their desk for the better part of 6 months and can't get into the workshop, even the...
1980-had a nice set of what I think were Cal-Custom finned covers on my SBF '63 square-roof Galaxie 500 HT. Guy in my small town left car outside...
What that car's missing is a set of '60 Dodge taillight housings. The article's author, writer John Lee, ia a big MoPar guy along with anything...
I'm wondering if the tariffs are also affecting the construction industry. We estimated a project at $2M in St. Louis that's got a lot of HVAC in...
If anyone runs into Harry's Hot Rods from Damascus/Boring tell them his cousin 'Big Al' from Nebraska wishes he was there instead of at the Wahoo...
Probably for '60 352-360hp. Date code OBD = Feb 1960-4th week of month or 4th day. If not vacuum advance then WTF's the vacuum diaphragm on it...
Oh f##k no no no! Not Cliff's '58!! Donetta (God rest her soul) needs to ask her fellow angel friends to help Cliff out.
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Malcom - mucho gracias, amigo! I'm scratching my head on how he mounted the SBF without cutting or pounding on the firewall (or did he?). Vega box...
Well, from studying the pics I took it looks like it has a Curries 9" with 4-link and coil-overs/Panhard rod (no parallel leafs), remote oil...
Needed a mental health break this weekend with all the overtime I've been putting in and took a few hours Saturday to go to World of Wheels. There...
X2 for Pappy's on Olive St. - forgot that one - best BBQ brisket I've had since leaving Kansas City.
And I bet it smelled real good, too LOL.
Have been going to STL for day/overnight trips on business for past year with another 18+ months/12 visits to make plus trips to Marion IL, and...
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