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Restraint.
In design and appointments. Too much of a good thing is well......too much of it.
Too much striping, bee hiving, induction, accessorizing, pleating, chopping....and sometimes all of this together.......is too much.
Gook wagons of the millenium are not festooned with flaps and reflectors and antennas like they usta be, but with this or that unobtainium piece and all the features noted above. These 'every accessory and treatment' rides are the gook jobs of our time and even they are not all that bad anyway. (These are certainly better times for taste.) We're supposed to express ourselves as individuals in this creative chingo and that means everything goes. Some of us just have got cluttered minds, that's all.
On the other end of the fanned out design deck is the resto-rod which, we're told by some one who seems to get it right, is the next new thing. I dunno about that one: sounds like someone 'starting' a trend because they say it's a trend. So watch: it'll be all the rage. Comfortable. Non-confrontational. Anemic. Here we go again. Where's that white belt of mine..................and that cute luggage rack.....
What wuz we sayin'? Anywho, when you got too many ideas to cram into one project; and if that creative energy needs an outlet, leak it to someone who mimes you (that always gets them built/bought). Maybe draw a picture of it . Or build another car. Spread all those cool ideas out a little bit. Or do like we do with other Hop Up Guys: think off (Mitch).
Consult a buddy.
Describe the 'new' car to him. In minute detail. Tell what you're gonna do to make it sit right and how you're gonna employ all those parts you got left over from other projects. Articulate how you're gonna use it and blow his doors off with it; how cool it will be to take it to the 'fill in the blank'. How great a road car it will be. With any luck at all, having heard your words outloud and knowing there is a witness to your folly, will make you upshift past the hallucination and your urges will have been satisfied by the simple act of talking about it. Or maybe somebody who hears the speel will build/buy it and - even though you know he got the scheme from you...it will have been done and......you'll quietly know who's with and who's without inspiration..............and you will experience
fulfillment.
Ergo, this is all therapy. Maybe Hop Up its' damnself is therapy. Yeah. That's the ticket.
We'll have a Hop Up Hotline: you call in and we listen for oh, say, $2.50 a minute and in the average chat (one way - we just listen) of about 10 minutes, $25 will save you thousands in parts and services that might otherwise have gone into that silly idea you had about another project.
We'll call it Rodbusters! Call us up and we'll bust that balloon of an idea you had to build another hotrod you have no room/time/scratch for.
A cool plan, but....................... who we gonna call?
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