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This is the month we usually take off - without pay - but we think we'll show up this time and save the hiatus for July. Or August. Or June, July and August. See, we're fixin' to go for a ride in a hot rod. You, too? Yeah. Maybe we'll see ya on the hiway. We expect to leave the LA Roadster Event right in the middle of it and take a semi-straight ride to Minneapolis. Yeah, Man, the one in Minnesota. Where Jesse "The Bod" Ventura is Governor. Doncha wanna be there? It's where Back to the 50's is. Where there will probably still be puddles of water 'cuz the snow has just melted, and Henderstein. B.J., Bob II and a few others hang out; like the other Hendrickson. And Thums. We gotta see Thums an' let him try to prove the hot rods out there ain't all painted John Deere Green. We're goin' open minded. We're takin' Hop Up Culture (coiture) back there widdus.
Although this is a business trip (we're taking a load of veritas out there) and there will be bidness stops along the way, it prob'ly qualifies more as vacation. We can feel the two-lane already.
Unseen vistas and unknown road conditions. Interstate or state hiway? We got time to go the long, adventurous way? Yup. Added one extra day just so sperm-of -the- moment happenin's could happen. How will it feel to be way out there, solo, haulin' ass -or not- in hot iron, liking what you're doing and looking forward to where you're going and who's gonna be there when you get there, but still diggin' the journey (not a metaphor - a real journey), too far away from responsibility to affect anything if you knew it had gone wrong....so don't call in........and playin' all those sounds that you don't have time for when you are driving in 7 mile spurts in town.......and bein' thankful for good hot rods that can fashionably get you there...and all the while designing another one and dreaming (it will be daytime) how the new one would behave on this same stretch.
Don't get us wrong about that 'fashionable' comment. We won't care if nobody's lookin'. We'd be fashionable even if we're the 'Last Man' on earth, right? That's what bein' a Hop Up Guy must be like, huh? (We're gonna continue striving for it. You Hicks out there give us daily samplings of what it takes, whether it's e mails or photos sent in, your pictures in real magazines....your newly throwed-together cars, or just watchin' you makin' your beat. It'll be easy, just following your lead.)
Anywho, that trip will be the first leg, we will probably report on it later, then the last leg of the trip will be M-polis to B-ville later in the summer. On that one we'll be delivering 100 MPH Club T's to Bonneville. We'll get there early so we can plan the Banquet (Don't know which day it will be yet, but probable Inductees will be notified later). The Banquet is gonna be special, bein' the first one and all and we're worried about stealing the thunder from the "TWO'S", so we ask all our participants to try not to look as cool as usual....down play the cool T's and the honor and all.....keep your Hunnert MPH Club hats in yer hands.....and we'll have the Banquet on a different day because we know that some of our guys will have "Dual Citizenship" and be in both Clubs. We don't want to make them choose.....the Hunnert MPH Club Weenie Roast will be in the pits so we can ponder and savor them four barrels while we hear the answer to, "What's it really like to go a hunnert?"
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