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RATTLE CAN NATIONALS OCTOBER 4

Yup. Friday A.M., on your way to the Hot Rod Reunion, drive through Harris Ranch and kick some tars with us. The usual un-affected bunch will be there, communing and savoring the reality that Hop Up Guys just don't care how cool it was to be at the Big One, or who was there, or to whom you might drop their names.

Your scrapper oughta have checked or rubbed-thru paint or primer or...ya know...you can bring the shiny one, too...just park a few feet away...........it ain't all that bad to have paint, plate, trim n' rim, either.

If ya wanna get there Thursday night, you can join us at snocker practice.

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Re-enactment is real in Europe. Here we kinda have to do chauvinistic things to make it difficult. And the Swedish, Belgian, Norwegian, UK cars always have the look (maybe more consistently that in our own.)

What they buy here and ship over is always the right looking stuff, and what they build there is, well, we'd like to be at some of their rod/custom shindigs.

SPEEDWEEK

YA BETTER GRAB A GEAR IF YOU'RE FOLLOWING THIS RIG FROM 'TUCKY TO B'VILLE. KENTUCKY ROAD AGENTS GARRY ELDRIDGE AND JAIME de ESPANA CAN SHOW YOU 'THE WAY' CROSS COUNTRY.

KITCHEN ON WAY TO D STREET ROADSTER RECORD

Bonneville is becoming de riguer with a lot of people - and we like it. The new generation is hookin' up, as spectators and racers, so there ya go. 50th Guys haven't been 'round.

There were stellar racing efforts by Jim Kitchen, Nick and Ken Smith, Shug, Shine-a-mon and Thacker, Tardell and MacKenzie, and the fun was coveted by a few Hop Up Guys who left, 'thinking-off', planning banger racers for next season. Let's see if the frenzy dies down on the hot, long way home.

Kitchen is worth further note. In Hop Up Volume I we touted the demolition of Kitchen's long time, kinda historical street roadster. We dismantled it in a little over an hour, if memory serves. Well, this is the car making it's inaugural run after the Kitchen/Batchelor/Simon fab job and it (he) set a new record right off the trailer. This becomes the most recent chapter in the history of the car that has found itself drag racing back then, in Andy Southards book about 50's hot rods in an armory auto show, all over the highways of So Cal including River City Reliability Runs and now in the record book at B'ville. Well done.

RICH FOX IS FIRST CAR/OWNER INDUCTED INTO THE C-NOTES

The Hundred Mile an Hour Club Awards Banquet and Weenie Roast was a blast. But it was a bit of a distraction for the 200's............there were requests for racers-asylum...from a few of them....but we deferred. You're just going to have to go 100 in a vintage flathead four to be one of us. Sorry. Sell your turbos and dynos and computers and fly-cut that old Acme. Get some tall tars. Pour some new babbit...reread that old article on Strombergs .................and come on down. One inductee goes about 300 in his 'liner, but got a ride in a banger car and seemed to be more stoked about his C-notes outfit than anything else he'd done all week!

APPROPRIATE CARS - AND PEOPLE- CIRCLED THE "Q"

There were 50-60 people and a dozen or so (Hop Up style) cars featuring some righteous bangers. Gary 20mile charred the weenies, Joe served the 'derves, and the ceremony was...........unceremonious.

Style. Suds. Salt. Hot Rods. Tube Steaks.

Hop Up Guys/Gals.

HEGMAN, VINCENT MAY BE PLANNING A C-NOTE CHALLENGER

Huge and Neil, Hot Rod Joe, Commander, Mild, Shine, Tony, Nick and Ken, Paul T. and his Bro, Bill C. and Dan S., Garry and Jim, Dennis and Warren, Mac and Georgie, Mickey and Don, Jerry and Rich, Jeff , Paul A., George P. dropped in, Tony and Chella. Peter and Kim, Nathan, Terry and Mary, Gary, Joe, Doc, Bob K., Straw and Kofoed (Stupid Guys?), Bueno Wayne-O, Steve L., Mark Briz (Salt Flat Rat), Bill Carey and Don, Burt and his missus, and a passel of others, attended.

This will become a regular Speedweek event; the shirts are so bitchin, we 'spect some guys to spend $8-10,000 getting one!

WOODIE, GARRY'S '32, HRJ

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