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DEUCES AT THE PETERSEN MUSEUM

If you are here early in the month (like on 3/2?) you may be missing the Museum’s celebration of 70 years of the thirty-two Ford. More later. In fact maybe we’ll insert some pictures here on the 4th. Tune back in later, huh?

We already know that there are some especiales going to be there; also there will for certain be some Flash-Cadillac/Gold Plated "Do You Know Who I Am-That’s Long Enough-I’ll Tell You" models, too.

HOP UP MENTIONED IN BIG TOWN NEWSPAPER

Probably because we were interviewed by phone for an upcoming article on an artist who has done work for HOP UP, a journalist for a metro newspaper found out about our on-line gag and looked in. Cool. But , how he could make heads or tails of it - not being a car guy at all - surprises us. This is an esoteric effort if ever there was one - intended for about 19 of us - and it is impossible to ‘get’ by the uninitiated. As we said in Hop Up Volume III (have you gotten yours yet? Yeah a couple more frickin’ days), "you can not start here. You have to evolve to here."

After the article on the artist, the writer did another short piece on convertibles and warm weather, or something (we haven’t seen it) somehow included Hop Up and tells the readers that Hop Up contains a lot of ‘self-righteous chest pounding’ about how cool it is to build a hot rod.

Fuckin’ A.

It’s not like we have to rebut that.....................

WANTED

Minnesota 1932 Dealer Plate for project deuce. HELP? Bob (612) 889-2212.

DRIP PAN

SPEAKING OF 'FOR THE FEW'

Stubby (Deacons) shot some stuff at Elmo with his new digi-cam, among which was this solemn testament to the romance of the dry lake. That’s Jonny in his r/p, Stubby is riding shotgun in a stovebolt that ultimately had an interesting weekend, and all the pics (we don’t have room available to show them all - but should ) are moving in a Hop Up kind of way. The dust and heat or cold can keep some folks away from the meets and that may be a good thing.....but there is just something about being out there. We think it is because every-lovin’-body out there is a Believer. Believe it. You know kinship with everyone out there...... just because they are there.

RACING 60 IS ABOUT AS PRETTY AS WE HAVE SEEN!

This month’s item from Eric at Vintage Auto Parts (Pac Northwest) is another example of why we really got to find some more photo capacity in this section: Eric always provides us with bunches of unseen era photos and we don’t have capacity to share them all. Maybe something to work on, for the staff at the Hop Up Towers (that’s World HQ for veritas). The 60 is a racing model, we suppose for a midget, and was included in a stream of images of unique motors that we found real interesting. We really got find some capacity.

STAN IS THE MAN WHO WILL DO IT DIFFERENTLY

Stan’s plan, Man, is to do it all Chevy, and this ‘30 Chev wheel has a cool look. The car is a roadster, runs a real early liner. The Chev came with the frame many people used for racers in the day (four springer) and we will follow the build.

CASTRO VALLEY’S RON BROOKS RUNS A LINER IN THE ‘VERT

HOWARD TOWNE RILEY - BEFORE	TOWNE RILEY - AFTER!!!

JIM LINDSAY BOUGHT THIS CAR IN ‘01; YA SEE? IT DOESN’T TAKE A HOP UP GUY LONG TO SCREW ONE UP!!

Just jealous, I guess, but, being in ‘no cash’, on-paper businesses makes a guy consider the real cost of paying the ‘cash only’ price that a lot of suppliers insist on in our community of entrepreneurs. They get full value out of the cash they get. They’ll pay no taxes on it.

We only got partial value out of it because it was recorded income to us on which we paid the codified gaff, and only some fraction of our ‘quoted’ price (income) made the trip to our pocket.

Then, if we ever sell the thing we put the parts or services in to and the tax man wants a look at that big deposit we made back in nineteen and ninety-something...well, we don’t have recorded expenses to off-set it. Then we pay taxes on the money WE got, even though there had been a real expense to off-set it. (This, of course, would presume that we MAKE money on the car. Ha!)

It’s like the guy who says, "For cash, I’ll forget the sales tax." Yeah. For cash, you save 7 1/2 %, have no recorded expense item to report (possibly later having to pay income taxes on an expense that you done PAID taxes on already!) and the ass-pocket salesman saves 35% in income taxes on the amount YOU saved 7 1/2% on, and you will probably pay 35% income taxes on later.

Sure hope it warms up so we can go back out to the shop soon. We definitely got too much time for thinkin’.

POSSON SCULPTURE "RUNNING AT THE LAKES" NOW AVAILABLE THROUGH HOP UP

Just after WWII, hot rodding got a start when young men took their cars out to the dry lake beds to see what they would do.

They began a whole new industry right there on the dry mud.

"Running at the Lakes", a new bronze sculpture by Steve Posson, captures the spirit of the early lakes meets.

The car has Kelsey-Hayes wheels, a dropped axle and a race car steering wheel, but everything else is pretty much stock.....and well used.

The '29 body has the cowl gas cap and the '32 grill still has its original trim and cap. The interior is tired, the door handles sag, but you know all the work is in the motor!

The racers are in blue denims with rolled up cuffs, t-shirts and boots.

"Running at the Lakes" is 26" long, carefully made by hand in lost-wax silicone bronze on a marble base. There will only be 15 made. $6,500.00

For more details contact Morty at (909) 788-2500.

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