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THIS MONTHS’ COVER

Another precinct is heard from: Hot Rod Hooligans..based mainly in Houston..but known to show up most anywhere..went FED with Jard’s digger. Lotsa good craft went in to it, not the least of which is the engine by Jon Marchman.
We gonna squal them tars, Tex????????????

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We’ve shown this image before with the Huntimer-designed bang-quet decal on the dash, but this time it’s a tease for the car it’s attached to…Tom Huber’s well-known, well-traveled modified roadster. We have a feature on it in Hop Up Volume X; pre-sales for that issue will start in a month or so.

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HAPPY NEW YEAR? MAYBE SO. PROBABLY SO.

It’s a new year and as we said last month in ‘Shorts’..hot rods are a handy way to distract ya from the poop what’s happening all ‘round.
So let’s do ‘em. Be positive, optimistic. Start or finish or advance that project. Move some money…. even if it’s a tiny bit. And remember: in spite of what the Network Anchors tell us in their somber, prejudiced, all-knowing tones…..this is a big economy and it’s starting to get over the election doldrums already on it’s own, bail out or not.
Hell, let’s go buy a new American truck or something…it’s America, Bub.

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CHARLIE VISITS OUR PIT-BUT EVERYBODY DONE GONE RACING!

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FIND HOP UP PARAPHERNELIA IN ‘SPEEDSHOP’ OVER THERE ON THE RIGHT>

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HOWARD TOWNE DRY CRUISES THE FIVER
..............(GENO IN THE TRUNK, I’M THINKIN’??)

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TEXAS SPEED KINGS

Now, we know all ‘bout the Speed Kings in Omaha..but now there’s another one in the Texas Hill Country…populated by no less august hot rod daddies than BIll Lindig and Tom Prufer. Looks like when Tom moved in to the area, the Lindig ‘Welcome Wagon” musta gone by and when delivering the cookies and lemonade..noticed tools….Ford parts and such.

It seems to have lead to a nice collaboration.

Look for more later on the Indy Special we all been trackin’ for a good while. It’s there, too…...well..from there at the moment…..
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SCOOT FOR SALE

PETER VINCENT PHOTOS FROM HOP UP FEATURE SHOOT

$18500 is peanuts for this bitchin scooter. The hot rodder sittin’ astride it is Paul Bos; contact him thru Hop Up, or directly if you have his coordinates in CdA Idaho.

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Hey Sam: ” I hear ya knockin’...”

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(Madman Marc D’Etout sent this over..Ed.)

MOONLIGHTING

Late night burger runs seem to be catching on up in Nor Cal. The Moonlighters, based in Santa Cruz, have a habit of gathering on full moons in search for midnight eats on the central coast. Each run is different. Recently a few members of the Moonlighters invited Odd Rods club member and Hop Up Art Director, Marc D’Estout to join them in a full moon ride to the Central Texan Barbeque in Castroville. “It was glorious” exclaimed D’Estout who says he had the best view on the ride by bringing up the rear in his 1950 Studebaker p-up. His view: Big John Dickerman’s ‘52, mild kustom Chevy hardtop, nicely lowered, Lars Mapstead’s ‘30 A 348 powered roadster, and Marc Nelson’s ‘31 AV8 coupe highboy with Merc flatty: all traditional homebuilt and low buck iron.
The ride down Highway One hugged the coast, winding through farmland and past the quant fishing village of Moss Landing. This area of California still has pockets of land that are essentially unchanged for that past 50 years or so.
The eats at CTB were just as traditional too, as was the music from the vintage ‘box’. Les Paul and Mary Ford, Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran, etc. help set the ‘Way-back Machine’ during the meal.
It just so happens that photographer Rob Duncan was perched shotgun in the Chevy and brought his tools to capture a glimpse of the outing. He shows us some of his images here just to give us a taste of the evening.
This is what we do right?.. drive ‘em day or night, full moon or not.

LARS MAPSTEAD’S ‘30 W/ 348

BIG JOHN DICKERMAN’S ‘52 STOVEBOLT

MARC NELSON’S ‘31 AV8

MARC’S D’ESTOUT-ABAKER

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ANOTHER PEARL FROM RUDY PEREZ’ JOURNEY. GAWD.

“Here’s another oldie for you…I built this K88 in 1957, and entered it in
the NRS in 1958…To go back the following year, the show rules stated you
had to make a major change if it were the same car…
No problemo…Blew it apart, and painted the chassis Chrysler Swift red…
Posed some old roadster show trophies around it, and sent the photo in…
I got in again in 1959…This is the car that taught me it was fun to race
a dragster, but not have the “brass balls” it takes to be a real gas or fuel pilot…
(short wheelbase maybe?)
Merry Christmas…
Alamo Elf”

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CARDBOARD CUTOUTS AND LOOKIN’ BUFF

You can get one of these cardboard cutouts with a workman on the front holding tools just like a professional…but there’s no face or anything; you just stand behind it, and it looks like the crafty guy is…you!!!!!!!!!

They have a muscleman in speedos, and a fat lady,too, but the buff mechanics’ rig is our fave…........................

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INFLUENCES

‘Took a pal for a ride (1000 miles) in the Staff Car…and he decided he needed a ‘Road Warrior’, too. By the time we got to Charlotte, he had the improvement parts for this ‘40 Coupe ordered..and 5 months later they were leggin’ it from Minnesota to Florida…. so the thing would be there..on call..for the winter.

Steve Hendrickson (Yeah, we intro’d him to the late Just Steve one time; RIP) has a lot of stuff to draw from but the Deluxe was maybe going to get flipped, sold, because it was too nice to get the full Lauen treatment and that’s what Hendrickson does to his stuff. Anywho, this is what resulted, and a true
road machine is now in the rotation. You’ll see a part of that fleet in these pics, noting that this is just the iron he keeps at the winter digs.

SEEMS TO BE A THEME HERE, CAPICE?

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BJ GOT THIS ALONG WITH A LOAD O’ DRAG RACING IMAGES

It seems to fit in with the Texas and California Drag Doin’s up above, right, Boys?

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