Mort's Shorts

MORT’S SHORTS

Yeah. We’re back. ‘Tan, fit and ready’. (Seems like Stroupe said that was a Nixon quote or something).

But we are.

And we’re full o’ the same kind of whiny bitchin’ and ridicule that you have come to expect of us: you can get great writing and photos and all that in Hop Up Annuals or anyplace else….but here you gonna get edge.  So it is that here we get to squawk about Stepford Car Clubs, precocious self-promoters, tasteless chauvinistic customizing, hot rods built like cartoons and …… glory be….then there’s the good stuff.

Yeah, there is good stuff, too, Compas, like good iron and the good people who run it. Life gets to be the transport from one weekend with y’all to the next, whether it be cross town, upstate, or cross country. We are always in your company, and you are in the company of your great iron.

There’s great places to do the above, like that white expanse in Utah, whose sound track is punctuated by long, fast, beautiful-sounding passes by all sorts of engines, but most notably, Small Block Chevies. Now, I want another one of them, too, so let those with less than about 250,000 miles in a hot rod tell me they (SBC’s) ain’t cool….while we run those mills cross country….and run them and run them and run them. And run them. An’ when they (those knowledgeable detractors) got 250,000 and think they qualify….DNQ, Mutha…we’ll have the next 100 on by then. An’ besides, guys (Hop Up Guys) been known to run a little bit of other stuff, too: nailheads and hemis and Olds and flatheads and Cads and ‘liners are all plenty cool….we’ve done… an’ still do ‘em…….. but ya shouldn’t use your ownership of an empty block and a ‘lead’ on an intake manifold to elevate yourself above the other ‘lowly’ mugs out there who are nothing but tail lights to ya. (See, we read lately that an SBC is an incongruity in a traditional hot rod. Maybe the young ‘un oughta check with some traditional hot rodders first before he begins to independently change our nomenclature?)

Lock ‘n load, Boys……We back…and runnin’ hard.

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