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GOWBOYS

Sinister hot rods are back. Well, sinister ones have always been sinister and they never went anywhere else......but ya gotta admit, the Post-Richie Cunningham ™ era......mainly the 60's....before resto-rods.........was cool.. They were bad and might've been driven by a Milner-looking' cat (1962 it was) in times less foreboding than these and thus we don't appreciate the vibes of the hooliganish, semi antisocial, Lucky-smoking' miscreant likely to be leaning down over the wheel, chirpin' the hides and looking out the door glass with a 'sowhadayagonnadoaboutit?' look.

NAILHEAD, WINTERS QC MAKE GOW/SINISTER FOR JOE PALETTI

TOM C. GOSSARD GETS GOW FROM SBC, MUNCIE, 3.70 9"

'Course there's lots of those cars around: some built then and others built in every decade since by cats what got it all along. Billet Bullet recipients haven't got it. Restorods don't got it. Retro-rods DO got it, mostly, sometimes too much of it when they're so true to an air-brushed shirt that you can't hardly get in 'em or use 'em. Moral? Bad-ass cars got..... ......gow.

That's it. Hop Up Guys are Gowboys.

Performance has primacy in hot rods...hot rods......and if that primary purpose is missed, well, ya got yerself a neutered car on yer hands, and ...you're just never gonna make any ol' ladies shudder and bite their nails.

What kinda life would that be?

Drip Pan

TOUGH WINTER UP (DOWN) THERE, EH, BOBBY-O?

'34 TRUCK MOCKED-UP FOR FINAL

You know that green shoebox Vicky that's all over the Bigs? Seems like someone kinda cloned it, too. Well, that's our pal Tony Miller who has other neat cars (and a job; they seem to come together, ya know?) but this truck is one Keith Tardel is putting together.

The only concession to the early look, is a 265 motor.

We can hardly call that a concession: the motor is one he just pulled out of his mildly-chopped '36 3w that he put a hot flathead in to. The 265 had been in his 3w for about 30 years, so........let's say the man's using old parts all over the place, right?

HOP UP VOLUME V TEASER

Just when you thought it was safe to go to back to the drive-in: some young fool - too young to get this shit - blows you away with the likes of this fiver. Brandon Mead's car will be in Hop Up Volume V........in the Hot Rod section. Oh, yeah.

RON LOVES ROADSTERS-or is it-RON LOVE'S ROADSTERS?

ANDY SOUTHARD PHOTO. ANDY SOUTHARD CAR.

Andy, Bob Botel, Ron Martinez and a few lucky others have our favorite car in the whole world. No chit, man.

We were at an Early Times deal and Botel walked us over to a stock-topped Merc coupe.

Sorry if any of you guys got 'em and love 'em, but we don't know why Edsel didn't see that they were chopped outa the box.

One of them would make a good Hop Up staff car, no?