Category Archives: News from Jalopy Journal

Dirt Tracking in the Bay Area- Vintage Pics

You may remember my post about my buddy Ron’s collection of Miller, Offy and Novi patterns rescued from a foundry in Berkeley, Ca. After shooting those pictures in his garage, we went in his house where I proceeded to photograph many of his race program covers from Oakland. He then handed me a large binder [...]

The Quest

After monday’s post of the found footage, I got an email from Michael Brown. Michael has been making a feature documentary about the Le Mans Corvettes and the lives behind them – then and now. Through this correspondence, a couple of interesting tid bits have come to light: 1. Michael already had the footage we [...]

The Dymaxion in motion

I just saw this rare 1933 film clip of the Dymaxion with Bucky Fuller and Amelia Earhart doing a large-scale press event, presumably at the World’s Fair in Chicago that year. Ryan and others have written about the three-wheeled futuristic vehicle before, but footage of the ‘Max in motion (at the ’33 Worlds Fair no [...]

Found Footage… The Corvette at Le Mans!

This is pretty damned incredible. Last year, just prior to Le Mans, I posted a historical documentary that covered the Corvette’s inaugural entry into the 24 hour event. It was a great little film that was put together in 1961 as a promotional piece for Chevrolet. The real-to-life plot was essentially set with a trio [...]

Pick The Winner: $1000 Baileigh Tech Week!

We all flew into Boise, Idaho late last night and met in an abandoned airplane hanger. All of our tech editors as well as a representative of Baileigh were there to discuss the top-10 nominations for our latest tech event. We chose Boise as these meetings in the past have gotten rough and word on [...]