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MISTER JALOPY’S GARAGE

Located on a quiet street flanked by gigantic bodied mail trucks, dragsters, utility trucks with shade trees in Burbank, Calif., Mister Jalopy’s cherry picker baskets, Aeroflots, diamond-plate garage is like a portal into the past and the F-350s with welders on the back, teardrop future at the same time. It’s fully stuffed from trailers, well diggers, and, most favorably, book-floor to ceiling with vintage tools, car parts, and mobiles. I would collect houses and skyscrapers, movie memorabilia he picks up at garage sales. but that would take up too much space,” Mister

“I would fill my dream garage with ice cream Jalopy notes. A retired music industry executive, trucks, carnival rides, Helms Bakery trucks, Mister Jalopy confesses to owning eight cars, funeral flower cars, Mercedes-Benz ambulance including a 1965 Ford Country Squire Wagon conversions by Binz, Unimogs, doodlebugs, with a whimsical paint job by his friend, a flathead four-powered log splitters, Cadillac retired Disney sign painter. He’s planning to El Caminos, passenger buses from India, Air- drive it in a local drag race. Read the chronicles streams, Model T fruit trucks, farm equipment, of his garage life on his blog, hooptyrides.com. hit-and-miss engines, Spartans, aluminum- —Mark Frauenfelder

Photograph by Carla Sinclair