MAGAZINE

HOP UP 2000 - The Annual

It's slick, a little edgy, and has all the rods and customs (done right) that you need, in the milestone year of 2000.

It has STYLE. Hop Up Style.

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HOP UP 2000 LOOKS LIKE THIS

ROTTEN CUSTOM

Did you notice that EVERYBODY thinks Paso is their own? There's two groups of greasers, the host WCK, hot and street rodders, low-riders, the locals, the cruise-association types....it takes all kinds, hmmmm?

But that's just the way it used to be ......nobody owns the street and even though we have this idyllic vision that the whole mess was cool rods and customs, it was flawed with the presence of Lumpy's Mom's 57 Ford fordor high-centered on the curb, and every lovin' kind of geek who had his license.

MERC IS SUBTLE AND BAD ALL AT ONE TIME

Paso is a kind of evolved situation, though; they even required photos for registration this time, in an effort to keep out some kind of riff-raff. We don't want to dig in to THAT one. We get enough chicken-shit little bites taken out of us just being here, so we'll stick to our own, home-grown controversy. At Paso. like any larger-than-it-ever-was thing, it's cool to see our kind of iron in all the gas stations and drive-throughs and driveways for miles around. Harkens to a perfect world, don't it?

And there is that exceptional cool that is part of customs........rods are plenty cool, and sinister, as we've said, but the vibration is different with customs............they make you want to slide down in that leather bucket seat some, and your chin goes up a little bit and you kind of imperceptibly nod as the car goes through it's steps.........then some guy...or better yet some chick...points at the car and shakes her head back and forth, mouthing "Awwwwwwww-Right!".....and you crack just a hint of a smile, so as to say," I appreciate your approval...and I want you to know it, but I'm way too cool to let those guys over there know how pleased I am..."

And there are 437 cars just as cool, and guys just as cool, and chicks just as impressed all up and down Spring Street.

But you probably shouldn't go next year. It's too crowded. Of course it's too crowded.....we're on to it now and....yup...we're always the LAST to know!

IS THIS AN OLD CAR? DOES RON DUNN SOUND RIGHT? DID SPURBECK OWN IT AT ONE TIME?

"If you see my lil' red rooster,
Won't you plee-eeze drive him home............"

Howlin' Wolf

IT MUST ACHE TO BE THIS COOL; THANK YA, BABY!