The Jalopy Journal
Sold Pair of whistles, one hooked to a champion insulator spark plug. Different tones very loud hooked to compressed air. Sold [ATTACH]
I've been hanging onto this for for years and have always wanted to run it but my current project calls for a cash infusion to keep it going....
Great work. I made it to 2024 speed week for the first time and I've thought about it every week since. I think the music on the videos is too...
[ATTACH] Pair of these whistles, the little boy in me had to own them and see what they sounded like, loud.
I've been busy getting the roadster body set in place and a subframe built, found a old owner and got some photos from the 70's which has been...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Body sitting at the height of the weld lines from the old channel.
So little update, PHOTOS FOUND! Working with a guy on the 60's history but nothing concrete yet. @Tim came by to look it over and made two great...
Did anything more ever come of this project?
The cast pieces really get me going, I cast bronze sculpture in school building my own furnace later on but never got around to firing it maybe...
It would be nice to get ahold of those parts but I haven't been in contact with the owner of the parts yet. My wife is going to a chopper show to...
So I started cleaning out the car and noticed the deck lid and quarters where stuffed full of paper, 1944/1945 Los Angeles news papers, 1944 Look...
I'm thinking the bottom of the door around 1-2 inches below the frame rail. I think the car was originally channeled around 10 inches.
I think the first step is deciding if I start a new build thread or just continue this one. Like, does the soul of the car reside in the chassis...
Man if you could dig out some photos I'd love to see them. Made a deal with @hotrodlane today and took the body home. I've been chasing it nearly...
Things took a drastic turn today. The body I missed out on months back in Chicago showed up local to me forsale by another Hamb'r. [ATTACH]...
I also sloshed some paint on various other body parts today, wheeled the bed over to the solar oven for curing which worked beautifully, all the...
The time has come to tackle the missing sections of rocker/sill/subrail. None of the body started out life together, 2 separate doors, a cowl from...
Took the opportunity of a sunny day to get some paint on the bed, it sure did take alot more paint markers than I expected and I still have some...
Neat!
Thanks! It's really filling up quick.
Wrapped up the torque tube shortening minus shortening the actual drive shaft using the clamp in a piece of angle iron to keep it straight trick...
Love to hear that, the ultimate goal with this is to go fast.
I like the way that looks!
I really like how you whittled that one down, very tasteful.. I finally have mine where I like it, although my welder has been giving me fits...
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*side note* This is the F1 crossmember I ended up using because it was already hacked and I knew I was going with a non standard transmission so...
Work has been crazy coming to a close this year which has been good for the pocket book but hasn't left much time for hotrod activities. F1...
Have a few sets forsale price plus shipping Stock from old closed exhaust shop made in Edwardsville Kansas 48"× 2 1/8 belled scavenger pipe....
Tired of sitting idle I made the decision the old crossmember was coming out, welded a few spars across the top and bottom of the frame some tack...
I haven't given up on it yet but we are approaching that point.
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