MAGAZINE

T n'A

Tubs. We talk about 'em in Hop Up Volume IV. There's a T tub project coming up for Hop Up..... and Bonneville, the umbilic home of hot rods today, has become a parade of sorts. From the Stupid Car, Hot Rod Joe, the Salt Flat Rat and a few others, open scrappers have become the shuttle of choice between the pits, starting line, big end, and all.

Why don't you'all throw one together?

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60 MONTHS

A real mag guy asked once if we could conjur-up a column every month - with a deadline - and we reckoned we could. In spite of a couple of lazy months, this is number 61.

He didn't say it had to be good.

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It's fitting that somebody would cloak an advertisement for his upcoming print effort in a critique of Hop Up, 'rebutting' extemporaneous compliments to Hop Up.

Message boards are an open forum, though, aren't they? But weren't they supposed to be non-commercial? That's enough for us.............

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Be aware when you are being counted as coup.

Be gone if you're the counter....................

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DAVE THURSTON WANTS TO REBUT THOSE WHO SAY HOT RODS ARE TOO EXPENSIVE TO BUILD

BO HUFF CAN USUALLY BE COUNTED ON TO SHOW UP ON THE SALT WITH SOMETHING INTERESTING. WE MET HIM THERE IN ABOUT '90 IN A RED '57 FORD HARDTOP. WE'LL TURN UP A PIC FOR YOU NEXT MONTH.

ERIC SCHILL CAN SURE TURN UP SOME PICS

REMEMBER THIS STYLE?

HERE WE GO WITH MORE PHAETONS

CHOICES

There are plenty of things to do in this hobby. So many, in fact, that you often have to make a choice. 'Woke up one Sunday, hadn't planned to be in town, but was....and so looked up and found an 'All Merc" thing to go check out. Cool. Sweet Thang threw some cold ones in a cooler, Dougie was gonna be there and that was that. Until we looked at a calendar. T Swap Meet at River City within site of the Hop Up Towers.......that's the other direction............... THROTTLER'S Picnic...........different date this year. Snuck up on us. What to do?

Don't know. Don't matter. We'll have a good time.

What we DO know is that certain gadflys will have quite a dilemma deciding which event to attend (maybe all three), but probably will make the decision based on how many names they can drop at which one, how many new coup might be counted, and how that might affect the scheme of becoming somebody. Our money's on the Throttler's.

So we'll go to the Mercs.

ANOTHER MID-WEEK BBQ

A guys says, "Hey, we're havin' a BBQ Wednesday night at the shop. Nash (Burnout) is taking pictures of roadsters for his next issue, so come on by. "

We did, and found Kevin, Jeff, Vic, Eric, Sammy, Markie and a bunch of other Shifters doing this reenactment - their way - of the day. A bunch of cars, BBQ, and they only drink beer.......to empty the pesky bottles, thus enhancing their trajectory when thrown at passing freight trains.

Ah, youth.

They got constant progress in the shop, shaming one another into productivity when one guy or the other gets a little too dame-crazy or something else; but they got time for all of it, it seems. Good music is crankin' at all times and those young pricks start late and - presumably - finish late. We sure weren't there for the end.

A bond has formed among these greasy brothers that harkens to that of a dream team of young hot rodders we grew up around, and it feels good bein' around them. Plan to do it some more.

POSSON SCULPTURE "RUNNING AT THE LAKES" NOW AVAILABLE THROUGH HOP UP

Just after WWII, hot rodding got a start when young men took their cars out to the dry lake beds to see what they would do.

They began a whole new industry right there on the dry mud.

"Running at the Lakes", a new bronze sculpture by Steve Posson, captures the spirit of the early lakes meets.

The car has Kelsey-Hayes wheels, a dropped axle and a race car steering wheel, but everything else is pretty much stock.....and well used.

The '29 body has the cowl gas cap and the '32 grill still has its original trim and cap. The interior is tired, the door handles sag, but you know all the work is in the motor!

The racers are in blue denims with rolled up cuffs, t-shirts and boots.

"Running at the Lakes" is 26" long, carefully made by hand in lost-wax silicone bronze on a marble base. There will only be 15 made. $6,500.00

For more details contact Morty at (909) 788-2500.

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