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MID-WEST T IS SE VENDE

This neat ride is for sale in the mid-west and if you want to know how to reach Ma Man Frankie for all the dope on this bad little actor..e mail us and we'll forward to him.

'33 3 FROM PAC NORTHWEST

One Hop Up Guy -Steve Lemmons - showed us this pic at the the Hop Up Weenie-Char

At LA Roadsters Fathers Day and we insisted on keeping the photo. Man. Subtle as hell, real nice piece and....yeah....it's done. (Don't worry, Gramps, he's got others that are painted, plated trimmed and rimmed!)

But this one will probably get the nod as his driver to HOTRODARAMA. Say Hey if you see him; he'll be covering the big Scrapper Fest for Hop Up.

MICHIGAN MODIFIED IS HOMEBUILT

Meet Dale Emaar. His R P/U modified is runnin' '50 Merc, T-5, Hali QC, 5.50/6.50 'Stones, 3 97's, Offy intake and heads, and tons off character.. Done at home. This is a home built hot rod, eh, Boys?

SUBSTITUTE ROADSTER

Another Hop Up Pal, Richard Loe, runs this one when his other roadster 'catches a cold' as he says. Oh yeah. His other roadster is the original Tom Pollard roadster, shown below, when Richard recently gave Pollard his first drive in it in....40 years!

RICHARD LOE'S ORIGINAL, UNRESTORED POLLARD CAR

WALLY WILSON KNOWS STROKER/WORKED FOR KURTIS

FORD 100TH

Yeah, we probably all shoulda all been there. Can you imagine the caravans cross country...V-8 Clubbers, Classic Lincoln and Zephyr cats, T's n' A's......guess we'll see lots of coverage....wonder if any Hop Up Guys got over there?

PRIMER (AMBER?) ALERT

We misplaced something and damn if we know where it is. Little flicks of information turn up here and there; sightings are reported and even ransom notes with pictures from far away places turn up in the mail. On the net. A skywriter. One fuzzy picture turned up on a milk carton....another was waved in front of us at a swap meet.........one, a slide, shown at arms length.....looked like some kind of shrine had been built around it. Satanic rituals? Cults? Has it been indentured as a rod-slave to a band of cool Gypsies? There must be some particular evil afoot. Please advise if you see the car or hear its' unmistakable plaintiff howl............. running down a piney lane somewhere.

DEEP SNOW EXCLUDES SOME AREAS/SHOULDA GOT LOJAK

It's just an ol' scrapper though.....not worth anything to anybody.....so ....that's it!!!! It must be held by teenagers. Dropouts. Guys who smoke; feel girls up. The Deadenders who would steal a transportation car from somebody and....and................(the thought is kinda sickening) ....go for a......a......oh, Man..........a JOY RIDE.

Worst is......it had a full tank of high test in it when we last saw it, and it needs its' medication.....140 wt........pretty regular.......we just kinda expect the next pic we see will be the thing abandoned with a willow tree growin' outa the top......

Let us know. It was last seen (not a trustworthy source) at York in the custody of guys with....gasp.......BLACK HATS.

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RIP HF

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LA ROADSTERS FATHERS DAY

Baby. Oh, Baby. 250 Hop Dogs......gone in an hour. Funny how popular you get when something is free!

Short Pants Lance was the caterer and he conscripted Graham to char, and Norm to serve...... but damn if Norm wasn't eating one for every two he served! Guess it's a good thing we only got about 160 friends.

We had a kinda park n' walk deal goin' on in the swap area and, by our simple reckonin'.......the car show was at the Hop Up booth. There wasn't room for many more than 12 or so cars but they were - in a cool kind of inventory rotation - the best out there.

Neighbors were our Tejas buddies" Wilson. Emerson. Knect. That was cool. Made for a nice neighborhood. Other Cali-Pals were up and down the aisle.

Gotta say that the biggest name builders are (some have always been) showing a traditional slant to things. There was a gold '32 highboy there with all the character ya need. Gawd, those guys have good taste. Let us not forsake paint and chrome: it was always the ultimate goal anyway. Just so happens that some of them look so good in the interim.... in progress... in the white an' all.......that you just have to suspend that animation and run the bad Mojammer.

Jamie Johnson's (Albuquerque) new modified stole the formal show..a welcome sight..... inside.....among the fluffers.

Stroupe observed that..in that row upon row of really pretty nice hot rod roadsters...there was no excitement....or euphoria...no magnetic cars that drew a crowd...mainly passive folks dribbling by..........unmoved spectators............while in the swap..there was passion......exclamation....laughter...revelation....congratulation........and most of it (here we go a-blushin' again) was centered around the Hop Up Iron and it's learned neighbors. Whew!

To top it all off, a lot of the humanoids that matter to us where there (at Hop Up Central). (We just deleted the three sappy sentences of buttering-up, brotherly, 'I love ya, Man' palaber.) Some of them were not there, either because of duty/family (straight priorities) or even mechanical disappointments.

'Happens.

They say the LA Cabriolet don't really care if there is a swap meet, but if they ever quit us.......we bet somebody will open up somewhere else in town: supply follows demand.

Don't tempt us.........................

'Til then, the intheswap digs is going to be the regular squeeze. Come on down.

And ya really gonna have to wear a Hop Up Products shirt to get the dogs next time.

Y'all looked so good.................

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.