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In racecars it’s P.Wood, Chini, Schmid. What it takes to be a student of THAT makes you curse the job that made you able to play in the first place. "We got no time for a job." Now ain’t THAT perverted?

In T’s it’s Beck and P.Wood.

In Brass it’s P.Wood and................P.Wood, I guess.

In Classics it’s Carambia, Mosier, and P.Wood. (Who IS this P.Wood?).

Our daytime dreaming is on a rotation. We can get full of one type (like when we’ve had too many moron sightings) and there’s a psychological fuse-box that makes that day’s dreaming rotate to another circuit. Today we are on Classics. The NB Concourse took place recently and we got the ass over a Lincoln Convertible coupe....a 12......so we had to check in with John. C. He grew up in a Lincoln (and hot rod) clan, and has a couple of Lincolns and is helping a friend get one and we talked about the car and the pulse quickened and it brought to mind a bunch of other cars and observations and dreams and there you go again, Boys. It is no different than if we had been "Thinking-off" (Thanks, Mildness) about an A-V8 we knew, or a chopped Bel-Air or......

You don’t have to be an automotive bon vivant to do your deal, either. You don’t have to do the outfit thing and go to the foxhunt, and celebrate with haute cuisine and fine wine. (Never hurt, though). A hot rod collector we know (you’d recognize the name) went to a weekend deal recently with a bunch of hotsy-totsy types (he can run with ‘em, believe it) but was kind of put off by what must have been an elitist attitude. We say, stick in there, because those mugs probably are the "fraud-rodders" of their community, who are there to collect and show off their baubles and are not really car guys. Classic or not.

So here’s the pitch: We know of a bunch of REAL HOT ROD/HOP UP GUYS who are into (own) classics. They are savvy car guys who get all of it. We’re going to have a gig for classics. Only it’s going to be......... hot rodder’s classics. If the guy doesn’t have a real hot rod, he can’t bring his classic. Simple. We’ll keep ya posted. That type of pre-requisite for the guest list ought to preclude the throwing of second place trophies into the bay....partly because there’ll be no trophies; partly because there’ll be no bay ......... it’ll be in River City.............and there will be driving . Yeah, we’ll include driving. No. We’ll feature driving.(You knew that was comin’.)

We may even drag some of the big fatties out! But take note: We have not changed our standards. We will still suffer no fools, fakers, charlatans or detractors.

You know who you are.

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Hop Up Honor. Stay Honor.