Mort's Shorts

ALL THE LA GUYS GOT ‘JFS’ PREFIX PLATES IN ‘63

NEW DRIVERS LICENSES AND OLD IDEAS (tm)

Hot rods still make ya feel cool, and not one lick less-so than when we cruised Tweedy Boulevard one time in our RPU (ex LAR car, above), met up with Tom Minden (I think it was) in a T Fordor sedan; talked, enthused, excited jive about hot rods and whether or not there were any more around.

Yeah, Pop, it was about 1965 and there were only TWO on Tweedy. It was over.

Then Woods told us about the Early Times and intro’d us to some more ....other ‘born too lates’...that had crawled out of the 50’s with new drivers licenses and old ideas.

Plug in about 45 years of it here and…....

And it’s come to this, the largest population of gowficianados there ever was and..so many of ‘em with so many different specific ideas of what’s cool or coolest..that we even had t’ be secretive or at a minimum selective to keep the dicipline disciplined…and now the dirty buggers (awright, Tony?) in the Big Associations are including other groups - higher cut off dates - and ya know what? We don’t give a rip since we cut them off years ago on the main because of the dense populations of Wannabefamous golfers and dentists.

Wouldn’t it be interesting if there was room for one last iteration of the ‘Association’ (I used to think that NSRA must be a non-profit!!) to come along, with smaller expectations, a little selectivity? Maybe a limit of 1000 cars. Hadn’t given it much thought since we chewed on the ‘Rodstock’ (tm) idea. May still be time for it.

Rodstock: 1000 pre-approved cars. Music festival. Vendors. Camping. Cruising. All profits go to charity. Yeah. The ‘Morty goes to camp on the Amalfi Coast Charity.’

You have 3 of these a year: West Coast, North East, Mid-West….....

...wait a minute! Wait a minute! There I go thinkin’ again.

Maybe I’ll sell my great idea.

And I’ll have more fun for me, and lots easier, drivin’ that old Ford out in the garage…..over to the beach, maybe..meet the Kyles…...hey..we’ll call Terry and Mary and…..yeah, we’ll come back and hang in the garage. I can go to the Amalfi coast any time. (I really can; see, Hop Up already made me rich..didn’t it?.)

Dream on, Boys. As a man we respect said, ”.......20 more good summers”.

Hop Up Honor. Stay Honor.