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Hop Up 2002 August Cover Mort's Shorts |
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| HOT FLATTIE IS NEW/OLD ROD |
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Nick Maneri had 106000 miles on the A Bone and decided to tear it down (to the bare frame) for a rebuild. Nothin' later than a '56 F-100 Steering box on here. Has an early Hali Q.C. and thumper flatmotor.
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| 1952. RUDABAGER'S DAD JUST PUT A 284 MERC IN IT |
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Hop Up Guy Rudy Perez was everywhere that rods were happening in the Bay Area. His Dad was in to it, so he had access. Entry. The stuff that guys pay for these days!
Look for more from his archives in future episodes and quien sabes? Maybe a book?
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| SOME PEOPLE SHOULD JUST TRAILER THEM |
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Oh, he did trailer it? Never mind. It's hard to make fun of a Hop Up Guy who has some hard luck. There's no moral to the story.
S'pose the rookie flag stays on this one.
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THIS STOVEBOLT MAY BE SOMETHING TO COPE WITH AT SPEEDWEEK THIS YEAR |
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| THE "MOTORMOUNTS" JULY 4, 1957 |
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| $15 OLDS MOTOR WAS HOGGED OUT TO 4" |
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Ed Eggert writes:
"Here are photos taken Jul 4 1957 at the 4th of July celebration in Maplewood, N.J. The picture of me in my '32 5 Window was on the front page of the paper the next day.
The 3 window known as the White Rat was a drag car we bought for the club for $300. It had done well at the Coffeeville meet the year before. The engine under construction was a $15 Olds which was bored out to 4 inches.
Other cars in the club were an Olds powered '53 Ford with one of the first sets of Hurst motor mounts. Also a slammed 50 Merc convertible, a few '40 coupes and a '40 Merc convert with one of the first 55 Chevy motors.
Oh, yes a '40 Chev coupe with a 270 GMC motor which was done per Hop Up mag article.
Keep up the great work..........................."
We reckon products will make Hop Up prosper. Put us over. Send us into the next strata of business success. So we're planning a new line of accessories that will make it possible for you to buy a discarded smoothie from the 80's and fix it ....detox it....without too much effort.
We're gonna have Stick-On Hinges. Yeah! Think if it! Even if the thing has been converted to suicide doors, you can put the stick-on hinges on the fronts of the doors. No one will know....... 'til you have to get out!
We're gonna become distributors for that chrome tape, made in sheets, so you can cut out a perfect applique to cover your painted mirrors!
Why didn't we think of this before?
There's Moon's moon-disc hubcaps...they'll fit right over a billet wheel....and we'll offer to paint chrome wire hubcaps to your specification, if you want.
Swell Tom will make up a line of seatcovers that stick to velour....or tweed......and he's working on a column-brace to lock-in' tilt columns!
There'll be a steering wheel hoop attachment: put it on your Le Carra wheel, add 2-3 inches to it's' diameter, and that will come with flat black paint to screen out the old 14" wheel. Ain't this the answer?
Little vinyl arrows to plant on your digital gauges.
Fake chrome radio antennas................ and wipers...just stick 'em on!!!!!
Headlight decals with fluting on them to mask-up the halogens.
There'll be a faux 'gas tank' cover for independent rear ends, and stickers that look like '39 tail lights. Some of that chrome tape will cover up the tail light slits in those billet bumpers somebody machined-up.
Watch for the color catalogue in your mail box.
'Tailwind' Don Stevens heard our plaintiff pleas for a doo-dad the would make a spring spreader work on a reversed-eye spring. Here it is, and we think you might get him to make up a set for you.
They are worth more, but at $45, shipping to US 50 included, well.....
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| e mail: tailwinddon@msn.com |
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It changes, we know. We go from a few months of preaching that you gotta be in the shop, then ya gotta be on the road, then ya gotta read about the old days, then.......
It's just a monthly diary. We got no choice, Man. What ever rolls around in our heads is what we talk about. And it's opinion.
Our opinion this month is that it has been months since we been in the shop. The hot rod project has been moved to the road: drive it. Drive it. And drive it. And drive it some more. Break it (there's a story for later), fix it (well, have Homeresque fix it), and.....work on a new Hop Up Annual............but........something's missing. The shop. It's snot (I know) like there's nothing to do. There's always a pile of parts that you can optimistically call a 'project', so, "What Up, Dawg?" as Bellman would say.
What Up, is......... Cover me; I'm goin' in. Chippin' away at the real project out there has been going on....clandestine-like, sending a part out here and there... but there's a rolling chassis-done for five years-that's gotta be blown apart. Powder this, paint that, polish one thing, plate another. Dude, it could be only three weeks away from being a painted and plated rolling, shod chassis.
If somebody would blow it apart.
"Hey, Sweet Thang! Get the Mercurochrome and Band-Aids ready. I'm gonna be..............in the barn".
Open this and listen to a classic Professor Fate laugh.
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POSSON SCULPTURE "RUNNING AT THE LAKES" NOW AVAILABLE THROUGH HOP UP |
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Just after WWII, hot rodding got a start when young men took their cars out to the dry lake beds to see what they would do.
They began a whole new industry right there on the dry mud.
"Running at the Lakes", a new bronze sculpture by Steve Posson, captures the spirit of the early lakes meets.
The car has Kelsey-Hayes wheels, a dropped axle and a race car steering wheel, but everything else is pretty much stock.....and well used.
The '29 body has the cowl gas cap and the '32 grill still has its original trim and cap. The interior is tired, the door handles sag, but you know all the work is in the motor!
The racers are in blue denims with rolled up cuffs, t-shirts and boots.
"Running at the Lakes" is 26" long, carefully made by hand in lost-wax silicone bronze on a marble base. There will only be 15 made. $6,500.00
For more details contact Morty at (909) 788-2500.
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