Just a Car Guy: 2/1/09

Saturday, February 07, 2009

The cool details of engines

I've never seen Shelby heads before

The pins/rivets, are going to keep those freeze plugs firmly in place

There is a beauty to machined parts

That is a cool procedure, having just a pair of engine builders at most make your engine, and then they put their name on it. That's pride in the work friends.

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/02/high-performance-engine-building.html for the wallpaper quality photos I thought you might like, and thanks to J Bittle for the open house tour of the JBA machine shop!

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/02/open-house-tour-for-mustang-club-at-jba.html and for last summer's open house at the Convoy St car shop: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search?q=jba+open+house+

http://www.jbaracing.com/

Open house tour for the Mustang club at the JBA engine building machine shop

For last summer's open house at the Convoy St car shop: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search?q=jba+open+house+

For a look at the JBA performance center on Convoy: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/02/jba-on-convoy-just-intersection-south.html

http://www.jbaracing.com/

High performance engine building machine shop wallpaper

Thanks to J Bittle for the open house at his full capability engine building machine shop! It's all in house, nothing farmed out except flex plate grinding. For last summers open house at the Convoy St car shop: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search?q=jba+open+house+

http://www.jbaracing.com/

To: Annonymous... who wants to sell his resto mod to Ron Pratte

I don't have the attention, connection, or access to Ron Pratte.

If Ron were to ever contact me, I wouldn't give out his contact info unless it were public knowledge, like a (business) address, email, or phone #.

If I had acess to Ron, I'd have a photo gallery of his car collection up here so fast I'd burn up my wifi connection.

Sorry, if you are trying to interest Ron Pratte in your resto mod.... it's my advice to give that up, and just auction your vehicle at Barrett Jackson. If your resto mod is interesting to other people, it'll sell... won't it!

Thursday, February 05, 2009

Always read the comics posted around someones work area.

JBA on Convoy, just an intersection south of the 52

Above: Pinched headers.. who hasn't done that?

That bottom green 67, barely any rust, great find

It says, 2300 miles, like new, best offer. Now that must be hard to pass up if you've got a 150 thou or so

Cool display... its the modern speed shop kind of vibe I dig.

Vintage sticker from 1969, Awesome!

I love a stack of books or magazines that just state "Car guys welcome here"

If you spot this on the street look out. Viper engine!

Some cool new wallpaper for you

Stop on over, enjoy the ambience!

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/02/open-house-tour-for-mustang-club-at-jba.html and for last summer's open house at the Convoy St car shop: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search?q=jba+open+house+

http://www.jbaracing.com/

Always get a second opinion about car repairs, and never go to any shop that doesn't come recommended by a trusted car guy... I saved Mick $2500

Mick called me up one afternoon a couple weeks ago telling me that the BMW dealership told him the 2004 Mini was soon going to need a new clutch, and it had a cracked radiator, a blown head gasket... and would cost about 3500 to repair. Nothing was under warranty.

I told Mick to ditch the dealership, go to the PRO in transmissions... Don Wang, DRW transmissions http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2007/04/not-just-transmission-mechanic-dons-gn.html

Mick was treated to an honest mechanic for a change, and they set him straight. The head gasket did need to be replaced... and the trans in the Mini was fine. The guy who took it for a test run told Mick, "I'm gonna be hard on it, that is what it takes to feel it out, and see how it responds... if it feels bad, we'll know it's ready to be replaced."

It responded like a pampered trans with many years of life left.

Score one for honest mechanics, and DRW transmissions.

DRW Transmission Specialties, Inc. 10728 Kenney St. Ste. B, Santee, CA 92071 Office phone: (619) 258-4240 Fax: (619) 258-9105

Wednesday, February 04, 2009

San Diego Auto Museum hot rod exhibit..

If I had a bull dozer....

Handmade Ranchero from a Ford Galaxy!

I was blown away at loading a race car onto a Ranchero... seriously, that is too much weight for a passanger car to handle, carry, and brake competantly. But then add the trailer weight! Doom!

But Nik pointed out that the hauler is a custom chopped Galaxy, and I'm hoping that the customizer went over the top for new brakes to handle all that extra load!

... trailers and motor homes produced by Turiscar, whose images have been sent by great friends who collaborate with our humble space ...
The photo is of a trailer Brilliant, and so taken in 1967, so this trailer is the first series produced by Turiscar, and was owned by the great racing driver and organizer of the Rio Ricardo Achcar.
He told me an interesting fact: the trailer was used not only as his residence in times of races, but also served as an office for his "traveling school of driving", which was very successful at the end of the 60s and early 70s.
Look only in the strange tug of vehicle trailer in the photo below: Galaxie was adapted into a truck only to lead to his Formula autodrome, and tow the Brilliant!

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=pt&u=http://turiscar.blogspot.com/&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhttp://turiscar.blogspot.com/%26hl%3Den%26rls%3Dcom.microsoft:en-us

Lincoln Military Housing and Barona Race track are going to have an Armed Forces Day drag race and car show!

The colors are out of sync.. converting from PDF to Jpeg isn't pretty, but the car show and drag racing will be!

Click on the poster for the full size version

Paddy Ride '09 in San Diego, from OB to Dublin Mob in Lemon Grove for bands and burgers!

SUNDAY MARCH 15th is Paddy Ride 09. Meet for breakfast at The Harp in Ocean Beach(4935 Newport ave) at 9:00 AM.., then motor out to Dublin Mob Choppers compound (6306 Federal Blvd) where the BBQ and Bands kick off at 11:00 AM Once again the bands are the top notch Lady Dottie and the Diamonds, Cash'd Out, and Diablo Dimes.. not to mention Mob crew cookin up HODADS burgers all day long...,refeshments, raffels, loud music, It dont get no righter ! UND1SPUTED and HODADS sponsoring. Ride yer chop rod or custom and bring the family.

http://dublinmobchoppers.com/

Classic vs Vintage... what is the difference?

"Nitpicker" decided to attempt to correct the verbage I used in the next post. I say those stickers are "Vintage". He thinks I'd be more accurate if I said they were (in his opinion) "Classic".

I always defer to Websters American dictionary of the English language, particularyly my 1948 published edition. But that is boxed away in storage. So I will defer to Dictionary.com

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/vintage numbers 6 and 9 are the ones that are general in nature, and not relating to wine, so:
6. the class of a dated object with reference to era of production or use: a hat of last year's vintage. –adjective
9. representing the high quality of a past time: vintage cars; vintage movies.

And then a bit farther down: Characterized by excellence, maturity, and enduring appeal; classic.

The word Classic : of or pertaining to automobiles distinguished by elegant styling, outstanding engineering, and fine workmanship that were built between about 1925 and 1948.

So... now what? Both defintions are relevant, and seem to be equally pertinant.

So, Nitpicker... seems like a draw, but it's my post, and I like the word Vintage due to my understanding of the relevancy to the time period of an item, and the word Classic has become more related to the era of cars, not the items associated with those cars.

Thanks for reading and enjoying the website, if that's my worst semantics error... I'm doing pretty good!

Tuesday, February 03, 2009

Vintage stickers on a Bonneville racer

Car auction coming to San Diego

http://www.kruse.com/auctions/sandiego09/index.asp

Saturday, March 7th - Starting at 10AM

Friday, March 6th - 9AM to 5PM

Sunday, March 8th - 9AM to NOON

Bodywork by Paul Jaray

1930's Benz and Opel were both given an odd 3 vertically stacked hinged windows.

1922 Ley.

All have bodywork by Jaray

Via: http://www.shorey.net/Auto/Miscellaneous%20Pictures/Paul%20Jaray/htmltree.html

Interesting photos from a Brazilian website

The Challenger was up for public auction in Brazil, see the link at the end of this post for the whole story, about page 9 or so.

How? How do you load that racecar onto the back of that Ranchero? Well, you probably caught what I missed.. Nik had to help me out... there are four doors on that hauler. Yeah! Now as if it isn't a leap of intuition enough to figure out how it was loaded on the back of that Ford Galaxy... the whole idea just got a big twist when you know that is a chopped four door!

I've seen the above in San Diego, I think

Check out http://colunistas.ig.com.br/flaviogomes/ for some more interesting stuff, or just enjoy his series of photos, Girls and Cars. Good stuff!

Smile! Laugh a little, cause this couldn't have actually went in the water, could it?

Via: http://www.amphicar.com/ and for a list of ampib cars and related websites: http://www.amphibiousvehicle.net/frameproto.html

Monday, February 02, 2009

What is an experimental Plymouth good for? Feng knows!

Via: http://www.fengtastic.com/?p=1521

What they do with fast machines in the summer, the slow ones have a problem walking on water, the fast ones don't

When you should have gotten the grade eight bolts...

Skip right to the 25 second mark to avoid irritating narration

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2007/02/nuts-and-bolts-101-or-what-is-grade-8.html

Early 70's drag racing

Don Garlits wins the 1967 US Nationals, called by Pete Jackson on the ABC Wide World of Sports

Classic billboard cubic inch advertising, and shaker scoops for the 2009 and 2010 Challenger

http://www.classicdesignconcepts.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=77&Itemid=1

Retro Cafe, Norrbotten Sweden. Very cool

via Pixdaus

The new Camaro... in the classic color scheme. Man that looks nice!!

Photos by Jason Thorgalson, Via: http://www.autoblog.com/

Fire station - Virginia 1863

Via Pixdaus

Page 18 Musclecar Enthusiast, Feb 2009, talked about it, here's the link to the original story of a factory lightweight that was unidentified by the seller. That didn't last long, the seller learned pretty quick the car was one of 6 Super Duty Drag car that posted an 11.93 in the 1/4 in 1963.
http://bringatrailer.com/2008/11/07/long-lost-racer-1963-pontiac-lemans-super-duty/#more-1318