Mort's Shorts

SOME HIATUS, HUH?

(What say we kick it off with some rhetoric then we’ll get down on the creeper next month.)

We’re back…... to cipher….. reflect…and opine.

This is Hop Up.

Yes, Hop Up is the vessel, Boys: and it - not me or any one guy or even the entire 19 of us - is a symbol of truth in this hotrod grind - the symbol of truth and balance. It’s not here to make heros and icons but it is here to be the Clubhouse where the cats who do it without tryin’ too hard - guys who do it for intrinsic value sprinkled with bits of approval from a few qualified peers - can meet with those peers and take pleasure in the art that is hot rods…..yeah….whether you can weld or paint or wire or or not.

Most of ya do, though. I’ve seen ya.

We’ll be back here, now, and if it seems like it’s a guy thinkin’ outloud, rather than a planned, outlined, constructed literary piece….that’s because it’s a guy thinkin’ outloud, not a planned, outlined, constructed literary piece. It will still be original, not a mime or a copy, or a plagiarised ‘flattery’ of someone else’s style.
We’ll celebrate traditional hot rods and customs, encourage the rest who see it in the narrow aesthetic we do, and assure the reader that being part of a small, smug community of guys who know whats right….is OK. It’s about the iron, as you know. Pure hot rod ethic. It’s not a fraternity. You don’t join because you need an extended family
We’ll observe what we come across in our own travels and in the process of making Hop Up Annuals and Specials; you’ll see continued expression of truth - veritas -  which can be the hard truth sometimes, and could likely require pissin’ on somebody’s brogans. (That probably needs done even if it’s at the expense of trend or new institutions…..or old ones.)

Projects of our own? The one above in those pictures has a purpose. It’s gonna run with the Rollin’ Bones - if they consent, and Swander (bet he will, he’s a pushover), and you.Until it’s lit off and makes that first long distance turn-around, we will obsess over it, dote over the details, nudge, cajole, prob’ly over-pay somewhere….and we’ll put our own hands on it. Alot. Won’t take credit for building it..but will have somethin’ like 200 hours in it (whadaya get for that?).
It was going to be summer of ‘08; I had this great plan that we’d have a Hot Iron Regatta at some undercover location with the Rolling Bones but, you know how things get in the way? * Yeah. Me, too.

Anywho, start tunin’ in to Mort’s Shorts again, and remember: although not everybody looks good in cheap sunglasses… we do. We jus’ got it.

Hop Up Honor - Stay Honor

*This here got in the way, thanks to Clint Ring and a few others.

“DRAGOON”

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