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2001 Cover

WHAT'S HAPPENING

THANKS TO THE CONNER FAMILY AND FRIENDS FOR INCLUDING US ON JUNE 10, 2001 AT EL MIRAGE

ANTI-BLESSING JULY 28 AT HART PARK

DEACONS HOT ROD LUAU AND CAR SHOW

All the Cool Livin' Daddies are bound to be there to see The Deora's, Cheap Lei's and Guana Cats.....there will be no '65 or later cars .......and it's cheap, so all you deadbeat tightwads can step up for once.

Call Jonny @ (619) 223-9556

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PASO

Oh. Maybe....Naww..... after I sit here a while I guess. All the internet guys will have their 'features' on their home pages, the magazines will cover it and....our secret weapon was out there anyway, covering it with an interesting angle for Hop Up 2002.

Weather, great. Site, great. Cars and people? Yeah, Man.

We went and found it as cool, and relatively laid back as usual. For some reason it's not as intense as the big shows. And there was the usual 'Sosh' element there. Ho-hum.

We noticed that the primered cars and the coolest hot rods from the Deacons, Shifters, Choppers, et al. were not on the cruise. Really. Then it occurred to us that the Friday night cruise thing is just like the 'track cruise' at the Antique Nationals that we don't usually participate in because it seems so....well, you know. But we go on the cruise at Paso. Thought that was the main thing but.......here we go again, being educated on one of the other-directed elements of the hobby that we had naively jumped on to...and......damn. A man's gotta take a stand.

"No, we'll watch the cruise...we don't require the attention....for ourselves.... that's being more like a Hop Up Guy." Why didn't we think of that? Now we have to see how their whole community got together...had a quiet meeting during the rap-off, maybe, and they said, "Hey, those senile fucks don't know what's up, Man, showin' off like that. Rank posers. We can make a statement of cool by quietly not participating...proving we don't need it...."

Gawd! I knew it! These guys are always one step ahead. Iconoclasts. Individualists. Real American pioneers of cool.

Saw one of 'em who's a Pal.

"Hey, (name protected)! It's cool that you all don't go on the cruise. Is that a social commentary about the shallowness and other-directedness, and fraud-rodderness of those that participate?"

"No, most of us just figger our cars would overheat."

"Oh. That's what I thought."

Joe Mac Rebuilds Ford Stuff Hell, NO! Nobody wants to work on your V8-era trans. OR the banjo rear-end. I sure wish Joe Mac Clelland was around.................... He is, of course. The trans-master turns them around in about a day and you can find him at: (909) 371-3111, in Corona, Cal.

LA ROADSTER SHOW

Hop Up drew a crowd all weekend. Fraud Rodders were said to have walked by, peering sneakily out of their peripheral vision without stopping to compliment the two coolest cars at LA: The Mild Mod and The Doane Clone - both in the Hop Up booth.

The new Weesner-designed T Shirts sold out. That tells ya something. We're making up and ad for them that may or may not be in this edition of web page.

But the word is out. Bunches of real hot rod types came by to encourage us to keep up the work. And the work? Promote cool. Gather the cool together. The coolest are the ones who tell you the least. Have the least "I" Trouble. See, for example, people who had done identical things that weekend had entirely different ways of relating the experience. Some name-dropped ; some were the dropped names.....and had much less to say than the former.

Our favorite moment of the weekend was when a (well-heeled) Hop Up Guy was asked what kind of car he had. He answered haltingly, " A '32".

"What motor ya runnin'?".

"Flathead"

"Cool."

This man has God-only-knows how many cars. We know of people who would've taken the question as an invitation to begin an opus. Our guy is a Hop Up Guy.

So is the guy who asked the question.

LA Roadsters have had the "Finished, painted and upholstered cars" rule since it made sense, and we agree that that is fine. There is plenty of parking in the swap area for our scrappers.

The annual River City Roadsters board meeting took place and typical damage was done. Caused us to be (intentionally) late for the big soiree. They did fine without us; and the coolest people were not there, anywho. Think about it when you brag about your weekend. Others turned up there who just knew everybody. Gee. Left out again.