Something To Be Thankful For
This Thanksgiving has me thankful for a lot of things. We’ve had a crazy year at The Jalopy Journal and I’ve had a ton of fun. None of it would be possible without the folks that sponsor [
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09/02/10 - Chromjuwelen
Falcon Motorcycles Kestrel: the LA River
Ian Barry's Kestrel Falcon motorcycle in the LA RIver. The Kestrel was custom built around the engine of a unit Triumph. Cylinders, frame, exhaust, tanks, handlebars, levers, seat... everything except [...]
09/02/10 - My Ride is Me
Datsun 510 Nickel + Dime = 1 Blast to Drive
Datsun 510 Driver from Australia Datsun 510… I called it the Ultimate Japanese Classic Car in my “Hot Rod Ramblings Part 2″. Why? I explained that it had all the right ingredients [...]
09/02/10 - Hot Rod Magazine
Fast Eddie's Racecars + Fabrication
Fast Eddie's Racecars & FabricationEddie Larnerd is a high school metal shop class prodigy, who turned his welding skills into a career spent crafting awesome custom and race cars.Eddie Larnerd is a [...]
11/24/09 - Stylish Kustoms
Kent Vikmo's Stylish 1940 Mercury
Kent contacted Ulf "Wolf" Christiansson, who had learned much of the old custom tricks by working with some big names in California (Gene Winfield, Steve Davis, and Boyd Coddington) before moving back [...]
11/24/09 - Austin Speed Shop
The Houston Autorama, a Thanksgiving Tradition.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Houston Autorama. It begins the afternoon of Thanksgiving day at the Houston Convention Center and goes through the end of the weekend. It may seem strange [...]
11/24/09 - My Ride is Me
Pinstriping Animal Style with the One Arm Bandit
I met pinstriper and all around cool cat Charlie Decker online, probably at Myspace, before I met him in person at the Grand National Roadster Show. I hit him up for some samples of his pinstriping [...]
11/23/09 - My Ride is Me
Bonner´s Bad Berkeley: A 310 MPH Sports Car
…oh ya, and its FRONT WHEEL DRIVE. Tell that to the “wrong wheel drive” haters! Pikesan and I first met Dr. Bonner Denton, Professor of Chemistry and Geosciences at the [...]
11/23/09 - Lowtech
dutch dynamite: '41 plymouth
Maybe you remember my post about this bare metal 1941 Plymouth Coupe. While surfing the HAMB tonight, I stumbled upon some recent update pics and while I was at it, found some photos of the build-up [...]
11/25/09 - Autoblog
Williams sells minority stake to Austrian investor
Filed under: Motorsports, Hirings/Firings/Layoffs, Earnings/FinancialsWith all the money that goes into running an F1 team, and the limited opportunity to make any of it back, we can't see why anyone [...]
11/25/09 - Jalopnik
Do Your Civic Duty for $8,000 Nice Price Or Crack Pipe
The Honda Civic has been an icon of frugality for decades. Today, Nice Price or Crack Pipe has a decades-old Civic that comes with a price that may seem less than frugal. Yesterday's Audi Doody, [...]
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