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MAGAZINE

August 2003

HOP UP ANNUALS FOR SALE HERE

Hop Up Volume I is sold out.

A hard bound version of the few remaining books will be offered soon, as will VII, VIII, V IV.

VOLUME II STILL AVAILABLE ($14.90): ORDER HERE

VOLUME III STILL AVAILABLE ($15.30): ORDER HERE

VOLUME IV ON SALE NOW!! ($15.95): ORDER HERE

Fourth in the series of Hop Up annuals is now available, shipping this month, in time for your holiday giving. Yeah, you got a job, no?. You got unwashed pals who could use a dose of truth, right? So what's stoppin' ya?!!! Buy the Six Pak Deal (free shipping), give the books away to five of them and watch how it transforms them..............finally we can envision a perfect world.

Until now there has not been a better Encyclopedia of Cool.

For reference.

For reverence.

It's just a bad sonofabitch.

When ordering:
For Australia contact Dragnetink.com
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THE FIRST 12 ISSUES
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The Reprint

The Reprint of the original first 12 monthly issues of Hop Up Magazine (from 1951) is available here (see order form) for $29.90 s&h included. If you don't yet have this one...why not?

HOP UP VOLUME V

Done. Collectible postcards go out to you direct mail guys in a couple weeks. Send it back with the paltry little bit of scratch it runs ya and you will get the new book before it gets anywhere else. You can get them early enough to give them away for Christmas gifts. Yeah. Think about it: you can be the Conduit to Cool. The Means to the Message. You can be a Minister of the Ecumenical Council of the Living Rod.

Say halleluiah.

If you want in on this, email your addy to us and you will get the postcard to receive first run books, before the rest of the world. (Remember, this is US 50 only; Canada and offshore are handled by American Auto Mags and Motorbooks International.)

AUGUST COVER

Nope. It's not the cover of Hop Up Volume IV, but could be, huh? This is the work of one Jonathan Bradstreet (jonnyhotrod@hotmail.com). You'll see a lot of this stuff and, remember.....you seen it in Hop Up On-line...first.

Nice work, Bub!

HOTRODARAMA

Go to Tacoma August 22-24 and purge yourself of those Latent "Smoothie" Tendencies . Be a real hot rodder (customizer).

Shed that cloak of formality that masks the real you during the week.

Boogie.

Get down.

Get back up again.

See Hop Up Guys and other righteous Dudes and Dudettes.

Become one.

There is no reason to miss it if you are within commuting distance.

Lookie here: www.hotrodarama.com

T N' A

There Ain't 15 Million O' These

This A 400 was at Auburn (Grass Valley) Hillclimb. Harkens to Small Don's breakfast clubber. A-bones, man. That's where A-OK came from, ya think?

A BUCK IN A BANGER

100 MPH Club Banquet is Monday night of Speedweek at the bend in the road. Free Hop Dogs as usual, and the presentation of underwear to new buckers will take place during the banquet. Huge Coltharp has built the Hop-Ubachi out of a model A oil pan, and it will get its licensing run that evening, too.

Figures to be a bunch of folks there.

THE BIRTH OF HOT RODDING - THE STORY OF THE DRY LAKES ERA

By Rober Genat and Don Cox

OK, click on this for the official press release but just note that you have never had this kind of look at the early post-war lakes. Color. Yeah, Baby. Color that enhances the cars, people and landscape and culture of the lakes in the day. None of the images have ever been published and that's the part we like.

Genat knows what's up and his cohort Don Cox..well....was there....took the pictures.....

CLASS

It may just be the concept that...in smaller communities of people who know that they are doing it more correctly that a lot of them....got more time in grade....could probably prove it in a court of law that their style is more bone...more true.........more unaffected.........less other-directed.......still don't bad-mouth the other disciplines. Because they don't care.

CLASSIFIED

Wanted: 1932 Minnesota "Y" plate to complete deuce truck plate collection. Thanks, email steve@llrc.com

HOT ROD FASHION

We gotta rebut a good friend of ours who commented that there was proper fashion back in the day.

Of course jeans and T's were pretty prevalent but so were khaki's and brogans, goofy ballcaps, stroker hats and it wasn't any different than it is now. There is NO dress code. Some folks are ultra fashion-conscious, some have trademark looks, some don't care (remember us complaining years ago that the screened shirt, pot belly, grey beard and western hat were getting old - along with the cats under the hats?).

If, in fact, there were a couple of fonzies back then with just the right amount of LB Pomade on their ducktail, cuff on their jeans, and smokes rolled up in their sleeve...they probably weren't the coolest car guys; most likely didn't have a car. The costume was their statement. The hot rodder had a car that made his statement. Being both woulda been too many demands on a kids' budget, we'll bet.

So, if you're new around the scene, don't figure that todays' rockers are the mirror image of the day: they are way cooler than those cats were in the day...and like some the cars...are an exaggerated illusion. Today's trendy cats and kittens and cars..are originals, not clones.

The guys sans dramatic outfits might be more likely to have the (cliché, I know) period-perfect car. That will prob'ly be true today, too.

Joe Mac Rebuilds Ford Stuff
Hell, NO! Nobody wants to work on your V8-era trans. OR the banjo rear-end. I sure wish Joe Mac Clelland was around....................
He is, of course. The trans-master turns them around in about a day and you can find him at: (909) 371-3111, in Corona, Cal.