The Jalopy Journal
I've used a brake drum lathe. Flip the cutter bar upside down and use a tool steel bit.
My grandfathers take on building things for other people. If you build it twice as strong as it needs to be, it will last half as long as it should.
Men marry hoping she will never change. Women marry hoping he will change. Both are doomed to disappointment.
Did you look for weight jackers? (stock car stuff)
To hold the bushing, you might try boring a hole in a scrap of 2x4, then cut the 2x4 in half vertically through the hole. With the material lost...
Used to tell my students that putting 500HP in a 300HP chassis was just pissing away your most expensive HP. Someone with 400HP in a 400HP chassis...
In the late 80's a couple of my students dragged a swamp buggy up to Maryland from Alabama. Built on a Ford PU chassis. Black iron pipe roll bar...
Maybe Seattle, if I remember right, they had a monorail for the '62 World Fair and a street numbering system that matches with the address in the...
Close the doors and don't sweat it.
Interesting use of rack and pinion steering.
Photo shopped. Isn't jacked up enough for the decklid to be that far above the Ford next to it. Tires too tall compared to the other cars around...
They are indeed two different words, but I think most of us have been in situations where the intended connotation of the word encourage was much...
I don't see what their problem was. If it has been like other swap meets, you paid for the weekend. That means they got theirs.
A 327 will get you any kind of ticket you want, any time you want it.
If there is any offset in the fit of the cap it turns the bearing ends into oil scrapers. If you are lucky the crank will lock up on the bench, if...
It's not mine. Sounds like something I picked up when I was in the Army.
He couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel.
There's a reason God made tomorrow.
If you're going to do it, do it right!
My dad was a 21 year old crewman on a PBY flying out of Kaneohe. He had been up all night, the night before, installing self sealing gas tanks on...
Allows it to run 12 degrees hotter without boiling.
Consumables are always a safe bet.
Or an M151 Jeep.
Back when I was in my early 20's, The MAC tool man, in his 60's, who's wife had died, asked me if I knew any young women. Said he was looking for...
Is there any reason you can't weld a plug in that hole, other than it is tedious tightening those bolts with a box end.
My brother was a roofer. They had a separate washer and dryer for his work clothes.
Shades of driving through puddles with drum brakes.
It is hard to take that cold, hard, mercenary look at your disintegrating passion and dream. You do something like offer lifetime subscriptions...
I thought it was, "If it ain't broke, fix it 'til it is."
Found inscribed on a desk top in my classroom one day, "Tonka Rules."
Separate names with a comma.
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