Cruising returns to Van Nuys Blvd

I hate you Californians!

 

I agree!!!! I hate lawn chair events. Van Nuys is for driving on not watching life drive by. Park and meet n greet, then get back behind the wheel.

 

???????? Man you have plenty of cruz spots to. Get organized! I cruzed Daytona, Miami, Orlando and I think Ft. Lauderdale... and I don't even live there. You know the places, just get outta your lawn chair and drive!

 

These photos are from our friend Adriene Biondo, who was on of those individuals who worked tirelessly for the rebirth of Harvey's Broiler in Downey.
She asked that these photos from the Van Nuys cruise be included in this thread...so, here they are


















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XL for me, please.

 

nice pics, thanks!

 

I can't find the start of the thread for the T-Shirts, but if I can still get one I need XL... I use the SEE FOOD diet...

Where will we meet for the next cruz? I didn't make the first one.

 

Doesn't look like "Cruisin" has returned at all! Looks like "Parking" to me! At some point...there will be cruising,right?

 

I sure hope so. I'm not bringing a chair.

 

more van pics, please....

 

Here is what I cruised in during the early '70's

 

Hey man, who in the fuck are you to talk shit to something you did NOT show up for? You BETTER be @ the Roadster Show in the morning so we can "hug it out"!

 

I'M FUCKIN BAD BOB,BITCH!!!!!
hahaha! I'm not gonna drive ALL the way to Van Nuys,on a wednesday night,just to stand around and look into each other eyes! I want to CRUISE!!!!!

 

Well, then ya better come out and CRUISE! And quit callin yourself a BITCH

 

FWIW the vanners got there at 4:45 and waited for the lot to fill up.

I think actual cruising will happen much more at future events, the "shock" of all those cars coming out of the woodwork was amazing for the early birds.

Today I watched some clips from the Van Nuys Blvd. Movie that came out in '79, man there were TONS of custom vans in that one! And Hot Rod covered the van scene starting in '71, lots of pics from the Blvd. Mother Trucker was a van parts hotspot from what I was told.

Keep On Truckin'

 

hahahaha!!!

 

R U coming to the Roadster Show? I'm already here @ Motel 6 in San Dimas, right down the street having cocktails and a meatball sandwhich

 

Size Large shirt for me and an XL for my buddy, thanks!

 

I'm with you Bob, I was there and not too many would cruise. We waited 28 years for this to return to Van Nuys and you guys chickened out. I cruised, I cruised all night long. I thought that there would be a mad rush to get out on the Blvd. BUT NOOOOOOOOOO! YOU GUYS ARE TOO SCARED TO CRUISE. Oh, the cops might get us. heh, ya bunch of PANZIES!

Seriously though, I'm with Bob. We need more people out there cruising. You guys are to programed to park and talk shit. Break the mold, CRUISE!

 

Ban folding chairs!!

 

Craig:

Heh, someone asked me in E-mail the same question yesterday. Sorry no, I don't have any pictures of the Frankensqueeze unit, it was Classified Top Secret - and any information was On A Need To Know Basis - and no one needed to know..................Just kidding.

Ask Groucho, he may taken a picture at some point.

Here's a little tid-bit relating to my secretiveness back in the day.

I'm about to race someone in my '68 brown Vette at Sepulveda and San Fernando Mission Blvd - in front of Lumber City. I'm doing a burnout in low gear and decide to blip the Nitrous button to purge the lines. Now for whatever reason (air in the fuel line, low fuel pressure, not enough retard in the MSD chip, leaking solenoid, whatever), I get this HUGE backfire through the carb.

Now this is one of my personally "massaged" 850 Holleys. Its got the regular air horn removed (I milled it off at work), 1/8" holes in the primary butterflies so the idle transfer slot will function, the throttle shafts have been slabbed to within an inch of their lives (milled to the bare minimum thickness that will hold a butterfly screw), and I've ground the butterflies themselves on a surface grinder to less than half their normal thickness. The whole top of the carb has had umpteen hours of dremmel and emory cloth work to remove and polish all possible restrictions & turbulence causing protrusions.

Anyway, the backfire was sufficiently strong enough to bow the hood in the middle and pull it off its latches in the back - blow it full open - then "BOING" spring it back down closed. So I turn the engine off - get out - and open the hood to assess the carnage with a flashlight.

As I'm looking down the carb I glance up and see this Mass Exodus of people - like Moses leading the Israelites out of Egypt - all coming over to see what happened. I jump up and frantically start waving my arms yelling: "NO!, NO!, BACK!, BACK!, NO LOOKIE-LOOS!". They know how I am, and turn around in the middle of the street and go back looking all dejected.

This carb is plumbed through the normal vacuum fitting at the back of the carb base. There is a copper line running inside of an adequately aged & stiff rubber hose (so people won't be able to feel the copper line inside the hose), with a custom diverter to get the fuel into a spray bar under the Nitrous bar.

So I'm looking down the carb at the butterflies (which are metaphorically like potato chips on tooth picks) and they are all bent up like miniature tacos. I get a screw driver and whack it with a wrench trying to bend down the butterflies. I start the car and it idles at about 5,000 RPM, so I go back to working on the butterflies again. I try it again and it's idling at about 3,000 RPM now, and I figure that's about as good as I'm going to get it with my first aid kit. I'll have to take the patient to ER at home for further surgery. So I limp it home, that's all the racing for Bob THAT night.

 

No pics taken by me. I respected your privacy, and my JOB, which was the best job a street racer could want.

 

Originally Posted by BottleBob
This carb is plumbed through the normal vacuum fitting at the back of the carb base. There is a copper line running inside of an adequately aged & stiff rubber hose (so people won't be able to feel the copper line inside the hose), with a custom diverter to get the fuel into a spray bar under the Nitrous bar.



Bottle Bob - One time I took some rubber hoses and baked them in the oven (at home) until it reached a few hundred degrees, so I could stuff the nitrous & fuel lines through them. (I did set off the smoke detector). I had the steel braided line ends taped and they has been oiled, externally. I had to use a glove to hold the rubber hoses due to the heat. It worked very well! When done, you couldn't tell that anything was inside. Just seemed like a stiff rubber hose. I modified the exterior of the nitrous plate to ressemble a stock Ford vacuum plate. The lines (6') were longer than normal so that I could move the solenoids far away from the engine (in the cowl area of a full sized Ford). I had some troubles as I had to make sure that everything was clear of the wiper arm mechanism/s. You could not see the solenoids, only the black rubber hoses coming out. I had to assemble the connections blindly. Wrench movement waslimited to a quarter of a turn at a time, and my arms were all cut/scratched up for about a week! Admittedly, the unit was a little slow/soft to hit but nothing that I wasn't able to adjust my driving to.

Rob

 

2 XL's please.

 

I don't know who you are referring to. I'm not in any of the pictures I have posted. Guess you'll have to come to VNB on 7-8-09 and catch me in my 1970 Chevelle (if you can!)

Rikki

 

They can also be used as airbags! How versatile can you be?!

 

Evidently, not as versatile as the lady in the picture wearing the Burger King crown.



alan

 

XL for me please, cause i'm a skinny little basterd with wide shoulders.

 

OK, check this offer from Harry @ HK Motorsports in Van Nuys. It's for the night of the cruise. Harry's got a 68 GTO that weighs 3350 lbs, and runs 9.70 with a 455 Pontiac, no nitrous


ok Groucho, here it is:

racing light to light will get the Van Nuys blvd cruisers cited & arrested by LAPD nowadays , so i will extend a cruisers night dyno special for the 3 pulls HP/TQ wide band 02 air/fuel for $50 (most cars fit on our dyno) NORMAL PRICE IS $95 FOR BASELINE DYNO
baseline 3 pulls is not tuning .

6:00 pm till 8:00 pm
15020 Oxnard street Unit #A Van Nuys 91411
818 908-9650