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I recently found, and bought, a rare '56 Chrysler spinner hub cap. I've admired these since they were new, but they never come up for sale. The...
Years ago, Gabriel sold a line of hydraulic shock absorbers called Adjust-O-Matics. As I recall, they had three settings (soft, medium, firm) and...
Just noticed the new picture on the group page -- '56 Customline Vic with an amazingly low stance. Is this car pictured elsewhere in the group, or...
I'm probably poaching a subject that Pat Ganahl has written two very good books about (Lost Hot Rods and LHR 2), but maybe I'll have a slightly...
Any body else doing the WCK thing in Santa Maria in two weeks? I skipped last year, but I need a Kustom fix.
When I first started reading car magazines -- Hop Up, 1951 -- a large percentage of customs wore wheel covers/hubcaps that were smooth and free of...
I'm having a "wonder moment", and I'd like to learn something from those of you that know more about the subject than I do. In the years before...
Sounds goofy, I know, but we need a '40 Std grille to build a pattern. Minimum parts needed would be the two grille halves and top & bottom...
Here's something interesting that I ran across in Hemmings. Seems that Walter Dorwin Teague Jr. consulted with Edsel Ford circa 1941, and proposed...
My HAMB friend, Phartman, asked if I would discuss full wheel covers -- the factory "hubcaps"; that were commonly used on early customs. I rarely...
The basic design decisions on my 40 were made several years ago, but as the build evolves, there are details to be worked out. The shaved deck...
I'm looking ahead to the rear window for my phantom '40 Ford convertible. The stock Ford rear window, as I recall, was basically a glassed-in...
I posed a question to a restorer friend about paint colors that have a particularly wide range of value, or brightness, from the highlight areas...
Rikster's discovery of an unknown sectioned '41 Ford has me thinking about this special class of customs. Of course I'm influenced by the fact...
This Stude fastback was shown multiple times at the old WCK Paso Robles event, but I haven't seen it for a number of years. I thought it was...
The recent thread on street-driven streamliners (http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=695076), the current Petersen exhibit on...
It's been almost a year since I've posted one of these design opinion/historical reviews, and I've been thinking about this subject for a while,...
I'd like to get in touch with Tom Tomlinson of Holley Carburetors. I believe he lives in Bowling Green, KY. Tom bought my '34 truck several years...
My daily is a '99 Ford Lightning. Its automatic transmission is the most satisfactory performance automatic I've ever driven -- good ratios, firm...
I have discovered a crack in the rim of an alloy wheel on my daily, and it is slowly losing air. I have seen ads for shops that repair alloy rims...
I've seem some pictures of very nice custom grilles made by Dan Stark (one '40 Ford, one '38 Chevy). Googling Dan didn't reveal anything about...
If you have a Ford or Merc convert '42-'48 with the windshield out, we need some dimensions from the empty windshield frame. '41 convert might...
When I was a teenager in West LA in the '50s, there was an older local hot rodder named Jack Owens. He was the son of bandleader Harry Owens. I...
EDIT: If you've enjoyed this thread, check out parts 1 (steelies) @ http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=629421 and 2 (wires) @...
EDIT: If you've enjoyed this thread, check out parts 1 (steelies) @ http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=629421 and 3 (alloys) @...
EDIT: If you've enjoyed this thread, check out part 2 (wires) @ http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=629929 part 3 (alloys) @...
For years I've held on to a desire for a really compact little speedster that goes like stink and handles superbly. In my personal stable I had...
Well-known '49 Chev front license guard: [IMG] Question 1: are the original Chevy parts stamped steel (I imagine so, since there are...
My old T roadster was lot #73, and sold at B-J on Tuesday for $17K. I missed it going across the block, and would like to have seen the bidding....
The discussion in the Swoopy Cars thread touched on stance, and that seemed to me an opportunity. This is another of my opinionated rants about...
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