Showing posts with label jalopy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jalopy. Show all posts
Sunday, December 19, 2021
Saturday, November 27, 2021
Thursday, March 11, 2021
Sunday, March 07, 2021
Thank you Dennis for the photo of your grandfathers Model T water pumper in 1945
Thanks Dennis!
His grandfather was an official tire repair man for the OPA in WWII.
(On August 28, 1941, President Roosevelt's Executive Order 8875 created the Office of Price Administration (OPA). The OPA's main responsibility was to place a ceiling on prices of most goods, and to limit consumption by rationing.)
He kept all his vulcanizing equipment when he retired and made those rear tires (on the pumper above) by cutting the tread off tractor tires and vulcanizing them around the stock tires on the old car. They worked well enough for low speeds.
He placed ads in the local paper during the war. He would get one or two tires from the OPA that he could sell without needing a rare tire coupon. He would advertise each tire individually.
You could not go down to his store and buy a tire, there were none. The ones he could sell without a coupon were seconds that were certified as such. Otherwise the buyer could get arrested for illegally obtaining a tire.
The only people who could get new tires were doctors, firemen, etc. Gramps kept many tires going by repairing them over and over.
He was a retired tool repairman for Ridge Tool (known far and wide as Ridgid, you've seen the Petty pin up art, or the Raquel Welch I posted) in Elyria, Ohio.
He could take a broken 48" wrench from the oil fields and do a brazed repair. He even got such wrenches back again that had broken in another place - his brazing held! He taught me how to braze and I can still recall the soft hiss from the slow, lazy flame he used as it played around the iron wrench.
and bonus, here is a little cart his grand father was photographed in!
Wednesday, September 02, 2020
those guys in the 50s could put together some great jalopys from junkyard crawls, and dang but there were a hell of a lot of junkyards and crashed cars
this would make a beautiful big poster for a garage wall
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/vintage-shots-from-days-gone-by.428585/page-6519
Thursday, August 20, 2020
Tuesday, February 04, 2020
Sunday, February 02, 2020
Wednesday, May 15, 2019
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
Thursday, October 18, 2018
Wednesday, January 03, 2018
Friday, August 12, 2016
"Riplin Rhythm" of the 781st squadron of the 465 bomber group at Pantanella Airbase Italy 1944/45
Some contrived hoopty the guys made in their spare time from spare parts... that must have been a hell of a lot of fun, and a good way to blow off steam.
Probably named for Shep Fields and his Rippling Rhythm Orchestra, but who knows?
http://www.frankambrose.com/pages/781.html
Aga Khan (prince of the Ismaili Muslims) at Harvard in a jalopy, while he was a soccer star on the Harvard team.
Thanks Phil!
When his grandfather died, he left in his will that his grandson would take the responsibilities of the religious leader, so that a young man of the "atomic age" would break the cycle of old world thinking and cultural stagnation. He immediately became the the only undergraduate in the history of Harvard that had two secretaries and a personal assistant. (His daughter, a princess, went to Harvard and graduated in 1994)
Why have you likely never heard of this guy (I never have) who isn't a nutter of the radial islamic suicide bomber/terrorists? Muslims have a lot of religions, like the christian/catholics, and he's the pope of one of them. Not the biggest, (though he's a billionaire philanthropist) nor the one in power.... he's the head of the one the others deny exists, sort of like the jewish denying that jesus was the son of god.... and the christian/catholics never getting along very well with the jewish based on that 2000 year old decision.
While most Shias believe this imam disappeared in the ninth century and await his return, Ismailis believe in a “living imam,” the Aga Khan, who is vested with ultimate worldly and spiritual authority. Ismailis consider Karim the 49th imam and the fourth Aga Khan—a courtesy title meaning “great king” that was bestowed on the family by the King of Persia in the 1830s."
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2008/6/1/karim-aga-khan-the-summer-before/
Monday, July 25, 2016
Sunday, June 28, 2015
hot rod and jalopy in the movie Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Thursday, January 01, 2015
I just found a fantastic Tumblr ( Make Your Own Path) for vintage off roading, sand dune buggies, jeeps, and homemade jalopies for sand dunes from Oregon to Michigan
I guess these are most accurately called Gow Jobs, or Jalopies... is there a better term for them?
Above, a Mickey Thompson truck I've never seen before, and
Below, Steve McQueen
For a lot more: http://bugsnbuggies.tumblr.com/
Friday, April 25, 2014
Sunday, February 17, 2013
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