Hop Up Magazine - August 2002

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Hop Up Volume I is still available, after a fashion. There are still some left that are slightly blemished: the covers are chaffed a little from shipping. And - in spite of their rarity - the price has not been raised: they are still full price: $15.30 s& h included, US 50. More for somewhere else.

VOLUME II

VOLUME III

THE REPRINT

The Reprint is in stock for $29.90, s & h included to US50. This is the first 12 issues of Hop Up Mag back in 1951. It’s where truth and cool were defined for all time. Own this or you will be missing out. Even if you’re a mouth-breathing voyeur from some other type of motorsport, you probably can use it. No, you, particularly, can use it. Find out why our guys are the shit.

VOLUME IV

Volume IV, you ask? How about November? Really. We’ll show you the cover next month and tell you about the Christmas Special, where you buy 6 or more at a discount, and then you have something cheap to give to people just outside your gift list..or to give to people who need to know veritas............. the way we do.

HOP UP 2002 - VOLUME III

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THE NEW ONE - YUP - WE DONE IT AGAIN

Oh, yeah. We want you to be the first - the first in your neighborhood - to see and read................ veritas 2002.

It's the annual report on traditional hot rod and custom innovation (not invention); it's the gut, the vibe, the style showcased by our people nation and world wide.

The cover is innovative yet again - a Weesner illustration - and - if you are da kine hot rod daddy; if you are cool-livin' and unfettered with fraud-rod doin's; if you want to see what the other Truehearts in the culture are up to.............send the scratch, Man...................you prob'ly still got a job........

Oh, the humanity! We (and MBI) have reprinted the first 12 issues of Hop Up. Yeah, like Hot Rod Mag did. But this is "HOP UP" For a lousy $24.95 you will have the original tome, the basis of comparison, the marked-in-time, dead-nuts best review of what was (is) meaningful in the day. And it won't cost $10-20 per mag like it is on e Bay or at swap meets.

Not since Montgomery's books came out has there been anything more vital to your library. It's where truth originated. Not exactly the 'Tablets of Stone' but pretty fairly well important to the coolest, realist, most-happening Daddies out there on the pike..........

******Note that American Auto Mags handles worldwide orders (Europe, Oz, etc.) and Canadian Orders should go directly to Motorbooks.

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THE FIRST 12 ISSUES

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VOLUME II STILL AVAILABLE

RE: HOP UP VOLUME IV COVER

Last month's e-zine cover was a teaser. It was shot by Brett Reed, and his own coupe is the lead car. Everybody was abuzz at LA Father's Day about the 'Coop-Shoot' at El Mirage. It was a Hop Up swindle, a collaboration between Vincent and Hop Up, wherein we'd get the cover for Hop Up Volume IV, some additional product for Peter's feature article in the book, and certainly some of it will show up in Peter's own upcoming books. You'll see other peripheral work from that day in Hop Up Volume IV.

So if you're compelled to 'tell' Hop Up all about it.......well......thanks, anyway. We were there.

100 MPH CLUB

Yeah, man. the C-Notes. As of the July meet there are already four sworn members. 'Went a buck with a flathead vintage four banger. Maybe more in August. Gosh. We gonna have to get goin' on those T-Shirts and Awards Banquet plans.

There's some comments that SCTA doesn't think there is enough interest shown so far but why don't they give a few guys a chance to build something?

Most guys are still in the 'thinking-off' stage. Doesn't matter though: our guys will run against the overheads and if there's no glory with SCTA...they don't care. They're in it for the T Shirt and the Weenie Roast.

TWO LANE BLACKTOP

We wuz on it. Rockin' and rollin'. High gear chargin'. Then, alternately..on the cruise. Forty-five mile an hour passes through farm towns, stop and check out a country hardware store, study the barns..there has to be a code of honor that says, let's leave this thing like it is so it will contribute charm to the landscape for those who follow...........

SO THIS ONE DRIVES UP, AND IT'S TRASH-PICK-UP DAY. HE CAN'T RESIST THE PLASTIC CAN STANDING IN THE STREET AND HIP-CHECKS THE THING WITH HIS RIGHT FRONT BIAS PLY, IT LAUNCHES AND THE SPEED KINGS FALL DOWN LAUGHING. HE GETS OUT, LIKE 'WTF?" A REGULAR FONZI, THIS KID. CLUB'S FULL OF 'EM.

We thanked him and proceeded to tell him that only a couple days before, we had found out, first hand. In fact, at the very hands of the SPEED KINGS. Yeah, those Speed Kings. Those hairy-legged, self-deputized keepers of the flame in Omaha and for several hundred miles in all directions. It's a big territory, but they have it covered. There must be an oath or something. We seen it in action. Kinda like a Cannonball Run, it was........everybody must be sworn to gather on a moments notice. They're the Motor Militia. The Sultans of Suave. The Guards of Gow. They're Batman and Robin...... and Frankie, Bob and Gary, and Matt and Larry and all the rest......... Frankie gets on the phone, and in about 20 minutes they are all there, in club colors, with their cars, each and every one of them totin' a suitcase of beer (this, on a Tuesday!) and set to talk about Iron. And the next run.....and the last one, and parts and projects, and a little ribbin' here and there, and they threw this Bacchanal, including the best Omaha beef in town, with all the fixin's and....likker....Gawd, Frankie, you could put some water in it.........because some Mug from River City was drivin' through in a hot rod.

Thanks to all of you. We'd like to reciprocate. And this time I'll pour, thank you!!

"....take your glass of water,
make it against the law.
See how good that water tastes
when you can't get it at all!
Keep on chooglin'........"
Creedence