The Jalopy Journal
Getting old is a real bummer, but dying isn't much fun either. Maybe zombies are the smart ones...
RE; 62 WAGON. just a bit of information you may already know. That wagon, also the '63 amd'64 are awesome vehicles in the snow. I drove a 62...
That little ford is super sweet. A tape measurer and some close inpection should make the process fairly simple if you use the sectioned car as a...
love it!! In 1957 at 12 years old I worked all summer and bought a 40 coach just like yours. even the same blue. It needed a valve job, but ran...
I wish that was true. Try buying a gallon, of gas, or a quart, or a pint, or a cup full of anything at a gas station in Canada.
My first nice car {1961} was a '51 Vicky , Fords first hardtop. Beautiful car. That wrap around window made that car. It was a real nice touch....
Gasoline , very sadly my friend, is only sold in Metric in Canada. A dumb mistake thast serves no one except to blind the Canadians how badly we...
I always wanted to build one as a long wheelbase car hauler. I would use a 501 Cadillac Eldorado, front wheel drive, with a Cadillac transaxle,...
Those Chrycos from those years were solid as bank vaults. When you closed those doors they were what doors were meant to close like. The old...
English Ford, Anglia, ohv 4 banger. I think about 1957 to 1959. around 100 c.c.'s later. There was not a huge number of them maybe, but...
Nice Bucket. Don't take off the whitewalls they look good. I remember when nobody ran blackwalls. That gas tank is a cool item. Best wishs from...
You are right, that car is beautiful, a real shame if it's gone.
If you clip anything on the ground you get a free crack pipe...
HEY flomaster... Nice truck. Canadians build cool rides. Like we have a choice when it's minus 30 below for months at a time in the winter ??
How about a 3.8 supercharged v6 from a early 90's GM product. with the whole front clip, including the transaxle. Leave the rear end in place,.You...
Hi Maria, There are some super cool cars in Finland ! `Gotta love them. Tell me are the Dudesons as popular there as they are here ? I have not...
Hello Drea!~ Welcome from Alberta Canada. I was 17, starting first year learning autobody in 1962. I worked at a dealership,drove lots of falcons...
Hi, A long time back someone asked how to bend small brass tube to make wire covers. I found a trumpet book recently. The factory uses water with...
You are going to be really sore when you find out you painted that nice Chrysler green !!
Hey DB13- That's a real sweet rpu. Why do we build hotrods to show what we like, then people feel you should build it to suit them, not you. I...
Gotta love those lines. That art deco nose piece should have won a design award. Remember when car designers strived to produce nice looking...
The '40 regardless of body style were some of the nicest looking cars Ford ever made. At 14 years old I bought ac 40 2 door. My older Brother...
It's a funny thing how these '55.and '56 Dodge and Plymouth cars have transformed into so much better looking cars than when they were new. I...
it's a turn signal. Just in casse you want to enjoy driving your truck in the summer, with windows down, don't junk the wing windows. They let...
I had a lot of shoebox fords,LOVED 'em all.they make new wood chisels ..
KOOL Wagon, the hood is nice wirk. A hydraulic convertible ram set will rasise and lower the hood and keep it snug, plus very trick. I put them...
There was probably never a car built that a lttle tasteful custom body work couldn't improve. Long live the customs!
The car looks like it would be a real blastbto drive. Very cool.
spray wd-40 in your distributor cap when you get it wet at the carwash. It will make you a believer that WD-40n does exactly what it claims it does.
Growing up on a Farm in the early 50's, I never saw an automatic until I was12 or so. But had been driving at least 4 years by then. Just on our...
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