Designing For Speed
A buddy of mine recently delivered a whole mess of old magazines to The Jalopy Journal World Headquarters. Part of that delivery included the November, 1951 issue of Motorsport Magazine. And in that [...]
1956 CAR-toon: Your Safety First
While posting the Jetaway cartoon, I also came across this safety film also produced by John Sutherland. ‘Your Safety First’ was a 1956 promotional film made for Automobile Manufacturers [...]
Garage Sale
Why can’t the bartender get it right? You’ve been parking your ass on the same stool at the same bar for over ten years and in all that time, this joker still can’t pour a consistent [...]
'Jetaway: Gear of the Year' 1956 Cartoon
Alright, so in hindsight, the GM dual coupling Jetaway Hydramatic may have proved to be a slightly overcomplex beast (especially when they needed a rebuild), but it was big news when Oldsmobile [...]
The Daily Driver - An Update
A few months ago, I told the story of my daily driven ‘39 Sedan. It was a story of risk really… See, I’m about as sharp as a marble in the shop. Driving an old car, keeping up with [...]
The Early Custom Pick
A couple of us were gathered around the latest early custom to call Texas home (Ed note: Mum’s the word Stevo!) last night and began discussing the finer points of the genre. We all pretty much [...]
Ode to Salt... Speed Week 2010... Cool Video
I stumbled upon this great music/ art video made by Josh Clason. His car footage is beautiful, and with the backdrop of Bonneville’s landscape, put to music and words, well,it becomes art. [...]
Right Place. Right Time.
I just got home from a whirlwind car event trip of a lifetime. It started at the Concorso Italiano on Friday, the Monterey Motorsports Reunion on Saturday, Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance [...]
The 2010 H.A.M.B. Drag Nationals
This was a make or break year for the H.A.M.B. Drags. After last year’s pure pandaemonium, I knew we were facing our first real challenge with this idea of ours. Could we or could we not control [...]
Ryan's still on the road...
Somewhere, down a lonely road in the Show Me state, El Jefe and Ryan are probably getting into some good trouble. Check back tomorrow for a new post, but here’s a nice vintage drag car clip to [...]
LIVE From Joplin
Holy hell… The Drags are tomorrow! I think everything is in place. I don’t think I’ll screw up anything too badly. Fingers crossed… In any case, you can follow my trials and [...]
Mystery '37
The above photograph came to me by email a number of years ago. It was part of a large batch of photographs that I got along with the Bob Roddick Collection. Since that time, I’ve pondered the [...]
The Hemi Under Glass + More
I was tooling around The Selvedge Yard the other day and ran into a great post about the Hemi Under Glass. There’s some great vintage photography in the post, but what really caught my eye was [...]
The Raybestos RPU
I typically stay away from commercial posts here on The Jalopy Journal. This site started with a personal lean and despite what some of my detractors might say or think, I continue to work hard to [...]
August 14, 1945 - VJ Day
The day for which the people of the world have prayed is here at last. There is great thankfulness in our hearts. Peace has not come, however, as the result of the kind of power which we have known in [...]
Stolen + Recovered
Old shit gets stolen a lot. We see “My truck was just stolen!” posts on the H.A.M.B. just about every week. Typically, nothing is ever recovered. Folks reply that they will keep a look out [...]
1955 Oldsmobile Delta Concept
This is one 50s GM dream car that is often overlooked in the books, but its one of my favorites. The ‘55 Delta concept was a hardtop coupe that stood just fifty-three inches high, mounted on a [...]
The Lou Baney Tapes
People send me vintage footage all of the time. Ripping this footage and uploading it to our servers takes a big time commitment, so I stack the footage I get and put sticky notes on each one that [...]
The Bocar Stiletto by Bob Carnes
As a follow up to his successful XP series sports cars , Denver Colorado-based car builder Bob Carnes decided to take his same XP-6 front-mounted 471 blown SBC engine backed by a Borg-Warner T-10 [...]
2010 H.A.M.B. Drags - August 21
It’s that time of the year again… The time when I get nervous as hell. The Drags are just around the corner. Of course, we made a lot of changes this year. For one, the event is [...]
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