Hopupland
HOPUPLAND
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THIS MONTHS’ COVER
Yes, it’s the one we showed driving around as a bare chassis at Deuce Day. Yes, it’s that crafty Steve Beck and the body is on the rails and look at that nice stance. He says it’ll be a little lower. Neato. This Gow Job will get paint and the whole treatment, then go in to the rotation with Steve of DRIVING his FORDS.
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$7.00 + $2 s & h = $9.00 to:
Hop Up
Special No.2
PO 790
Riverside, Ca. 92502
or click on SPEEDSHOP , select Spec 2 and use Paypal.
(US 50 only - See Links for offshore vendors)
an’ you did get Annual Volume VIII, no? See that one in Speedshop, too.
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SKIP SAID HE HAD MORE STORY TO TELL….WELL, I GUESS!
Hi Mark, as promised here are more family pics.
The #5 hot rod is my late Uncle Bob Bailey’s jalopy he raced at
Watsonville Speedway and other outlaw tracks in northern CA in the
40’s. You previously printed a pic of him and my late father Bill
Bailey in the June ‘06 edition, that car was earlier than this one, this
one is strictly a race car. Uncle Bob started racing before he was
legal to drive, my Dad would drive him to the races and he would lie
about his age.
The other photo is of my Mom Marilyn LeBlanc at 16 posing in front of my
maternal uncle’s hot rod in 1946. My uncle Eugene “Bo” LeBlanc built
many hot rods, real early dragsters, Bonneville cars etc. This car had
lights behind the radiator so the eyes would light up, as my Mom
remembers. Kind of cheesy.
Thanks again for keeping Hop Up alive, good stuff every month. Someday
I need to get to a gathering where you guys are.
Skip Bailey
And he does a little art..like this War Bird stuff on leather jackets…he’s done some of that for vets of the Big War, too. An honor, I’d reckon…...
This is a great job. ‘I ever tell ya?
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TAKE A LOOK AT ‘DRIP PAN’ FOR SOME READERS’ STUFF
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We backed off a few months ago and decided to forego Mort’s Shorts. Lotsa reasons, Baby…..but .........you didn’t really think the ‘hop ed’ deal would go away did ya? Well, maybe 19 of you didn’t. So don’t be surprised if, somewhere, where you least expect it..like Hopupland..you get that old tyme religion you were used to..peppered with politically incorrect invective and slurs against silly institutions, groups, and iconsforiconsake.
Oh yeah. And elitists. HAHA!
...gotta keep cool now, gotta take care…....
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DIVININGROD TOUR
We’ve tried intentionally to stay out of the west so that our Pals all over this bitchin country don’t think we’re prejudiced, but..the Staff Car ended up in Idaho and..you know Paul Bos? Well, then, there, now…...
The coupe languished there almost 10 months (who knew?) and when we came to get it, BosMan takes us out to a fine filet dinner at Wolf Lodge Inn..then a few hours of good ol’ boy conversation in his bitchin garage…then a classy room and sugar-plums, Bub.
BOS’ TARDEL FRAME FOR THE NEW PROJECT
Next morning, ready for a 400 mile charge to Longview, we look, and Paul has the car out and aimed at the driveway and..wow. Everybody who stores the thing washes it and checks some stuff out after we leave, but this time it has new tires, wash and WAX, an ice chest on the floor with water, a couple beers and some iced tea in it..and on the seat is a can of nuts and..WHOA! DADDY! A brand new jug of Crown Royal (ain’t that right Mr. Whiskeyman???????????).
YEAH, BUDDY….....
Now that’s Bospitality, ain’t it? Thanks, Paul and Sallie.
BOSMAN LED US TO THE HIWAY..
Next Stop, Steve (Jimmy Olsen) Lemmons with more o’ the same. His cars are right, right, right, right. (There’s more than four, believe me). And he took us to see George and Casey Paradis’ magnificent view of the Columbia River, then to Alan Darr (yeah, the V8 Club Expert) and a Gilmore (and car) collection like you never seen.
Fed us all right good at the Masthead, too. Again, Steve and Chris, much obliged. (An’ we never seen the likes o’ them baby beer pitchers, even tho’ we done been to two counties fairs, a goat-ropin’, and some other fool thing.)
Where were we? Aw! Then Redding. Mitch Allen’s Mitchell Motors is there, and we got caught up with those guys, saw the sprinter he was building a tail for and took the pulse of Hollywood Joe’s new, improved chassis, then to Jack’s Grill for the best cut of beef we ever had. No chit, boys. Try it when there next (but you may have to ask Mild Mitch about how to clue the Hostess in to who you is, so you get that boothinthecornerintheroomintheback.)
THIS TAIL-JOB WILL GET MORE WHEN HOLLYWOOD’S CHASSIS IS DONE
ALWAYS GOOD VIBES ON THE DIVININGROD TOUR
OK. Next day further south to Bill Bushling, who builds the Magnachargers for Harleys? Never mind. We will have features for a lifetime right out of that shop. So, more later.
LIKE YOUR FORKLIFT WOULDN’T BE HUFFED?
BILL SAYS THIS WILL APPEAR DOWN SOUTH REAL SOON
Next day a lazy
<200 mile ride in to Martinez to catch up at the Hot Rod Garage, Brother Randy and Brother (say Helleleulah) Farmer had the cooler cool so we might hang out like all o' you do..Bro's, Brews and Bangers, and plenty more. Seems the Goodguise will be there during Hot Rod week so most everybody will be able to get over the moat. Check out theneon. Yeah!
Last day on the road was a semi-hard charge (Radar Love) and Happy Hour with Sweet Thang in the best place of all…home. Love to go. Love to get back. What a life.
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EARLY CAD, HYDRO, OLDS
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NO DISCREPANCY INTERIOR
After a communist car (356) deal where a friend buzzed the crowd in a Yak fighter plane (eeek!ooooooooo! awwwwwwwwww!), a crowd of us went to our place and ....when talking with JJ about interiors he said he’d send some shots of his ‘36 and, man this thing is pristine. I think the car may be in the background in the big TV show, too. Gabe did it and you’ll see the rest of the flathead/columbia rig in Hop Up Special No. 3..right on time…next Summer.
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HOP UP VOLUME IX WILL HAVE SEVERAL EXPOSE EXHUMATIONS LIKE THIS ‘N
Gary Vahling dug this up, more of it will show in Hop Up Volume IX, but until then….WHOA, DADDY!
THANKS FOR CHECKING IN, BOYS. AND
REMEMBER: IF YOU’RE OUT ON YOUR BIKE TONIGHT,
......................BE SURE TO WEAR WHITE.
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HOP UP HONOR. YOU BETCHA DO-JOHN-DOUBLECLUTCH!
