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Hop Up Volume I is sold out.
A hard bound version of the few remaining books will be offered soon, as will VII, VIII, V IV.
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Fourth in the series of Hop Up annuals is now available, shipping this month, in time for your holiday giving. Yeah, you got a job, no?. You got unwashed pals who could use a dose of truth, right? So what's stoppin' ya?!!! Buy the Six Pak Deal (free shipping), give the books away to five of them and watch how it transforms them..............finally we can envision a perfect world.
Until now there has not been a better Encyclopedia of Cool.
For reference.
For reverence.
It's just a bad sonofabitch.
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$149 + $10 s&h to Motorbooks International or directly from Peter Vincent (208) 883-8422 will get you one of only 149 art prints that will be available. Call now. If you do not have any automotive fine art.....this is your chance.
Cool. What else can ya say? It's open to everybody and if they don't come......shame on 'em.
It really is OK if you get full of running your hot iron and need a respite from it. 'Cool thing is, that you'll get to missin' it in a few days. We did a 1000 mile turn around one weekend (4 day) and parked the car, dirty, in the garage, didn't want to think about it for a couple days, then it began to eat at us that it was dirty ( 'had just been detailed so we could reasonably figger there was shine under the grime, so.... broke down and washed it. We'd decided to not do a couple of the parking lot things that were on for the next weekend, but there it sat, clean, and we had fresh recollection of how it sounded; how it felt a-swayin' it's hips on Hwy 49, et. al., so we up and took it for a ride. Cool. You can't get very far away from the damn things, now, can ya?
We had run with folks we never run with on that grand and found 2 or 3 different versions of how fast you should run, food stops were complicated by 2 or 3 different versions of how big a deal a food stop needs to be; gas stops were confounded by different tank capacities (human and mechanical), fuel consumption based on horsepower and gear ratios, and.........damn near every one of us broke something on the way!
We got a holed oil pan somehow right at the beginning (don't give us any crap about too low: 45000 miles and about 15 states hadn't done it yet) but were lucky enough to be pulling into one guy's shop when it sprung. We let the oil have it's head on the way out, jacked the sucker up, pulled the drain plug, got a fire extinguisher handy, and the shop owner spot-welded the hole, we topped off with some more Pure Penn and we were down-the-road- motors. 975 miles to go.................
The same shop owner bottomed his trans on one o' those man-hole cover lookin' things at a gas stop, shit canned the flywheel cover, and noticed later that the wracked trans mount had the dist leaning on the firewall; rotor cut a groove in the cap and besides some blue smoke on compression, the thing was running almost fine. Fixed that in the p-lot of the hotel we stayed in. Another one r and r'd a water pump there; one lost an automatic (big name shop) transmission. One sacrificed an MSD ignition on a Donovan big block in a deuce on the way back.
So what? It happens. Each guy will do something a little different next time: change gears, change cars or motors.....watch closer for road hazards...... and.......100 Bucks says nobody breaks next time.
It was a pretty damn good run....and we found Hop Up Guys at the apex, too, which always warms us. You see them just about everywhere, ya know?
The R n' C Egorama (is that what it's called?) Shootout deal will be interesting this time cuz Sam Strube's Roach Rod got in. 'Promises to shake up the polished.
If we know Sam, he'll have a couple of memorable gags to pull so that they'll know they been.........Hambed.....and they will find that you can have fun in a hot rod without your chest poked way out one side and your wallet out the other.
If he gets any more post time on the board, though, they'll have to start calling it the S.A.M.B.!!!!
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"...shot her down because she made me slow,
I thought I was her Daddy... but she had five mo'......"
Johnny
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Who da say 'who da?' when I say 'Houdaille'? (For the un-read: Who-Die)
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Snuck away from that gathering of 100 roadsters and, while they snail-trailed it to a wine-sipping, Philly the Greek and I unleashed ours onto Hiway 49 to hunt down the banger hill climb in Grass Valley. The others didn't even miss us! We pulled back in to the hotel before them and all afternoon folks were sayin', "Wasn't that great?!".
"Yeah, especially that Merlot".
20Mile went, too, we knew he was but he was in a truck we hadn't seen before and we kept sayin', "Who are those guys in that truck followin' us? They must be goin' where we're goin'. "
Anywho (Hey, Wiley), the usual players were at the hill (Mild Mod, et. al.) but there was an interesting T roadster at the curb near where we holed-up: '22 or so, low cowl car in red primer. Buffs, musta had some hydraulic braking somewhere - can't remember, downdraft Winfield carb and manifold, found out later it had a Warford trans (boy, did we), but it had a Multi-Lift Valve cover on it.
Turns out the car belongs to Monty Osborn (notable cars). "Hey, Monty, are you really runnin' Multi's or just the cover?"
He affirms that he is and we thought that was pretty cool. Didn't know you could still get 'em, run 'em. See they're these gadgets that attach to the valves to multiply the lift like a high-lift cam. It was a George Riley (Birthday 6/2/1885) project that was apparently commercially successful.
Hillclimb wrought the usual amazement that those four barrels can be made to run so hard and (relatively) smooth and sound that bitchin.
Later on, when we decided to melt back in to the procession we had dodged, we hopped on to the hiway and, running the ol' ZZ1 about 70 M.P.H., and grabbin' gears on a little bit of winding road, looked ahead and......leading us and about three modern pieces......is Monty's Multi!!!
70. No Doo-Doo, Man, he's pullin' us on a mountain road at 70.
Big shot street rodders prob'ly wouldn't be as buzzed as we were. But we were.
Are.
We don't know if this is an evolution of the 'Denver' heads that they made for a few years, but this is a nice lookin' Miller-Schofied-Cragar rocker arm head that is worth investigating.
We may run one of these (after we get over FLATHEAD Fever) on a future project. Check them out at www.millerhi-speedheads.com , or call Steve Serr at (805)647-2307.
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Oh, yeah, Baby. The club is 10.
We couldn't get to the party but we know what we musta missed. Congratulations, you Bad Boys, you!
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Righteous indignation is often the Indignant One screaming, "See me!!! See me!!!!!".
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