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MAGAZINE

June 2000

T 'n' A

Antique Nationals - Four-Ever-Four drag race gig is in the first week of the month and we plan to have the Hop Up Cragar there; it blew up' loading it for the Auburn hillclimb, so we got to go after crank and timing gears for the first time on a banger and, well, no mystery there. Next? (S'pose we'll find out at the drags what's next, hmmm?)

NO WARRANTY ON THIS STUFF

BOYS, I MAY BE A LITTLE LATE.....

The Auburn Hillclimb guys were a little provoked when a couple of purpose-built cars showed up to kill the hill. No body' freaked em out; no front brakes, and the hell-bent- for-election "if he can, we can" attitude didn't seem to compliment their vision of the whole thing. Now:

It's their party. But last year we got there and there was this little narrowed, un-suspended flathead B powered rail job that just kicked everybody's ass, so our guys thought that's what you're supposed to do, and built cars. Wrong. They tried too hard. We are still fans of the whole deal and still like everybody and will still go and will still race with correct' cars.

THIS RASCAL STARTED IT!!!

RUSTMAN CAME TO RACE/WAS TURNED AWAY

Don't get us wrong: the idea that cars up there are going pretty fast on a 1/10th mile deal on borrowed federal land, with no particular insurance requirements, etc. makes it prudent to keep it cozy so the whole affair doesn't get blown off by some hysterical beaurocrat who sees one of us blow a bias ply tire at 75. It wouldn't be a pretty picture.

But guess what? Mildness has conceived the River City Timing Association, and Rustman is working on a geographically desirable location for 1/8th mile banger drags, done (who'd-a-thought?) The Hop Up Way.

Moment of silence................

VISALIA

The brass racer dash to Visalia and all around antique racer shindig was Memorial weekend, too, and we spect lots of coverage everywhere but we'll see if we can get a review and some pictures from one of our stringers who was there. This was one of those "If I could only do it all," weekends.

BANGER BASH

Meremere, New Zealand was the sight of the first annual Banger Bash, Model A Ford drag races. We have not heard how it went, but figure it to be a 1/4 mile deal as part of the Nostalgia drags at Champion Dragway. Correspondent Greg Stokes will no doubt fill us in, including notes on how well some of the attached iron did that day. These cats don't seem to need any manuals or anything on how to do the rod thang. They done got it goin' on. Look:

DO THE DEACONS HAVE A BRANCH OFFICE?

"YA THINK THE RF' PLATE IS A COINCIDENCE????

DID BOS-MAN GO SOUTH?!!!

ART DEPARTMENT

Peter Vincent, Black and White Activist submits the following without comment, probably because conversation would be distracting...........never mind that the cars are those of Hop Up Guys; the key is that the setting is "there". We can not get enough of being there or meditating with the below images in front of us.

STROUPE WILL GO MOST ANYWHERE

SO WILL HOT ROD JOE

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