MAGAZINE
July '99
T 'n' A
Commander Stroupe sends along this photo of Model T Barnstormers at a Northern California Fairgrounds horse racing track, on the gas and turnin' left. Although this is definitely post '26 (T's are showing cowl doors) the racers hadn't deemed it necessary to lower the suspension on their jitneys. Bobtails from this and earlier times are clearly lowered by Z'ing frames and suiciding front ends.....there were handy-dandy How-To books at the time that made any farmer able to handle it with the tools in his barn. But what about these people. Could they have been claimers? Run whatcha brung? These carts are only missing headlights, boards, splash aprons and fenders, and the photo isn't descript enough to see if the engines had any cool-ass mods like Rajo's and other such foolishness.
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WHOA, NELLIE!!!!
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Having had a little experience in a T that is underslung but nearly stock, we don't see much future in power sliding those tall cars on what was an inevitably rutted track. Catch a rut, reach for the basement.
Probably got a sack o' beans for first place.
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DE-CONTENTING
It's our newly borrowed buzz word for stripping the mundane out of somebody's restoration, saving all that you liked from the (probably dead) guy's car, and retrofitting some gow into it in your own perverted, self-centered, un-sentimental way. Credit is due to pal Steve Hendrickson (no, not the journalist, but the other one in Minnesota who owns, and restored the Mazmanian 'Vette) who either coined it or at least uses it these days to describe what crime he'll commit on the next estate item. We like it. And we'll use it; but we'll give credit (unlike some elder rodsman writers who prospect these pages for pearls) when we lift a turn of phrase.
NEWS NOTE
Who is the mountain rodder who can't seem to keep a car running? Word has come down to civilization that this man (who used to be a Hop Up Guy) can't get a car running.
Seems he couldn't figure out clutches and flywheels, tried automatics, and may have gone down the hill to look at pre-owned Lexus'. Lexi?
Do you think he should start reading T n' A real carefully in order to find out if he has ability to fix the planetary transmission in a T? They're real simple to fix, and he probably could find a motor and transmision in one of those saw mills or mines near where he lives.
We're here to help. Mercy......mercy.
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