Hot Rods Real Hot Rodders

Hi Folks, just a little fun from something I wrote a while back.
Real Hot Rodders

· Think $2700 for a set of rims is stupid (Kinda dated now, huh?)

· Know their cam specs. (but don’t just tell anybody).

· Almost always install parts while they are still wet, so they can make a ‘Test Drive’.

· Get irritated when someone calls their car cute.

· Nickel plate parts so they won’t rust. Example: Patton would get pissed when someone called his pistol ‘Pearl Handled’. “It’s IVORY! For grip!”

· Have more brackets on their wall than on the car. “I never have to re-do anything”.

· Are allergic to fibergl***.

· Can’t wait to put the race motor back in.

· See a part in the magazine and build it.

· Agree with Bill Burnam most of the time, (Old reference).

· Felt bad when Drag Racing Magazine folded. (obviously Old reference). Now: R&C, Street Rodder, Rod Action, Rodder’s Digest, Car Craft, etc. TRJ for a while.

· Sage: “Take-off on Blues Bros”, “Fast?”-“Yep’. “How?”-“Tens”. “No”- “Yep”. (Another old reference).

· Dummy: Someone who asks a guy with a quickchange “What ratio is it?”.

A Real Hot Rod

· 1,000 pound car, 800 pounds engine.

· If stolen would end up on it’s top within two miles/ No…Blocks, from where it was pinched.

· A car that every time you get a chance to drive scares the **** out of you. “Gawd Damn!”

· A car that HAS to have the tires screwed to the rims.

· A car with no interior.

· A car made up entirely from used parts.

· Cars that go RUMP in the night.

· A car that if any part was removed would not go. [Ok, Doors, if ya got ‘em].

· Uses grade 8 bolts, not because they look neat.

· The only wiring is from the Mag to the kill switch.

· Thom Taylor never drew it, but maybe Dave Bell Did!

· Doesn’t have ‘Armor All’ Tires.

· Wasn’t built in hopes of a magazine article.

· Doesn’t really have to be a stick, does it? “Let the arguments fly!”, To quote the late Pat Ganhl.

· Doesn’t have a five-way harness in the p***enger seat, if it has one at all.

· Won’t be for sale anytime soon. [Going on 46 years].

· Unintentional compliment: Tim Bradley,” You go fast in that?” First time seeing my Coupe.
Bob

 

Yo, you talk'n ta me!

 

Great Post And We Know Who We Are..

 

I fall under the see it and build it tool section.

Home built tubing bender (that works awesome), tubing notcher, shrinker/stretcher foot pedal stand, heavily modded powered HF bead roller, and the list goes on.

My son said I have as much time building tools for working on my model A as I have time actually working on the car itself. He's right....


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