The Jalopy Journal
Thanks for the words of encouragement. Thinking of putting back together as is except going through the chassis. Still thinking.
Oh, I'm not making sense. I bought a 43' Hatteras and I want to cruise the Bahamas. I'm just trading insanities!
That's beautiful. I'm afraid I'm pulling the plug on this project. I've just been storing everything for the last few years. I would love to...
This project is not dead and I plan to finish it - in good time. It's too cool to send down the road. Everything is safe and sound and waiting...
Yes and I searched Touchy Toy and it appears to have been sold in 2009. Just adding a tidbit to the information trail if anyone ever tries to...
Aaron, Touchy Toy used to sit at P & G Cycle in Rockton, Illinois. I bought my first Norton there in 1979 and I always admired that bike.
This project is not dead yet. Everything is safe and dry. I'm finishing up a 1961 Austin Healey Sprite MKII now. I go back and forth about...
I'm afraid it is currently a stalled project. Some of the parts like the reconditioned gas tank and radiator and the rear jump seats have turned...
Here's the engine being loaded at the machine shop and how it sits now in my shop. [ATTACH][ATTACH]
As we rolled down the road, the body parts kept working loose and we put them in the bed and the car.[ATTACH]
Sorry for the long silence. I had time out for back surgery in February. Cutting to the chase, as the fall of 2014 went on, it became apparent...
The chrome shop made slow but steady progress on the chrome. In person, it's not quite as good as the pictures.[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
Ordered some fender skirts for the car. I can't remember where I got them now. I thought it was fenderskirts.com, but that seems to be a bad web...
The generator was sent to Don Allen in Florence, Oregon to have an alternator built into the generator housing. I opted to stick with 6 volts....
I figure the next guy down the road can always chop it. I'd love to see any old pictures. The shop I took the car to in Missouri closed up last...
Barry Burrell from Detroit machined up one of his father's design 2x2 manifolds for me. I sent the manifold down to Dick's Hot Rod Carbs in Texas...
The engine went to Andrews Automotive in Savannah, MO. Lewis Andrews had done one Cadillac flathead in the past and seemed up to the task. The...
The trunk was locked and I didn't have a key. When it was finally open, these were inside.[ATTACH]
Engine coming out to go to the machine shop.[ATTACH]
Here's a shot with the paint ground off.[ATTACH]
There were some extra lights added at some point and the holes needed to go away.[ATTACH]
The whole rear roll pan was missing and had to be fabricated. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Some of the repairs. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
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Back to the timeline, we delivered the car to a shop in Missouri to do the work. Work starting progressing quickly. Even though the car looked...
I can't argue with the look of a chopped top. I struggled with the decision. Ultimately I decided to stick with the stock roof line. It can...
I looked very carefully at those photoshop chops. There was no doubt in my mind that the lower it got, the better it looked. The car was braced...
[ATTACH]My girlfriend and I set out for Detroit from the Washington, D.C. area to pick up the car in February of 2014 and took it to a shop in...
[ATTACH] This is the first picture I saw of the car as it sat in a warehouse in Detroit for 44 years. There were a number of old cars in the...
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