Smitty;s and Beer, I thank god almighty for Smitty's and Beer...

I generally only like technical threads, but given the vast and infinite information on this board I usually end up getting drawn to the lesser 5% of **** that I can honestly hang with.

One thing hit me the other day though. I finally was financially stable enough to buy a full dual exhaust kit from Red's Headers and it wasn't just the slicing open of a package and sticking the sticker on my dented Snap-On box for me.

I had headers, but more importantly, Smithy's mufflers. It was a name of a product that had resonated with me through my Grandfather's and his pal's incredibly cool stories of the 50's, especially the early ventures of the New England hot rod/custom scene before the 265 Chevy, and before shaved door handles and rock & roll when the 3/4 race flathead, skirts, and square dances were the utmost in coolness.

So when I slid the blue gl***packs out of their plastic preservatives and held them in my hands, I held a lot. I held the past, I held something in my hand that far surp***ed the goal of duals, then Cherry Bombs, then flowmasters, then Magnaflows. As it stated right on the god damned muffler I held Smithy's : An original...cast right in the tube, and I felt lucky as hell to be right in the ne**us of American hot rodding, nostalgia, and practicality as I held the original in my hands and touched the face of the hot rod goddess which so few generations beyond mine would ever feel.

 

odd ball cheesy writting, but i love em too haha

 

I have a set of those on my 53 vicky , a nice flatty with headers and smithys ........good lord what a sweet tune she sings ........puts a smile on my face every time......puuuurrrrrrrrrrrrrrfect....lol

 

Only a true hot rodder would get that emotional about his mufflers, perhaps the beer helped?
Does the same to me...

 

Sob.....I love ya Man!

 

Nice......very nice. Thanks.

 

.......****,spit cereal all over my computer...too funny

 

Isn't there a song called "Big ol' Smitty's and Beer"?

 

Show them to me!

;-)

 

my dad ran Smitty`s in the 50`s we bought a real old one at a swap meet
it was heavy as hell I guess it had metal shavings in it
don`t think you could buy a pair in 79 if my gl*** packs ever where out there 30 years old? I will buy a new pair of Smitty`s
put a pair on a customers car two years ago and there just cool

 

but not the naked pictures

 

wow! im feelin it!! wheres the pics? lets see the desert!

 

That was great. You should have been a novelist.

 

Great story...I as well run Smitty's there perfect.....

 

Wow, what a way with words!. The man's a poet and don't know it.

I got Smithy's on both of my cars, and the only thing that's been on them consistently through out the years. Glad you could express the feeling, because due to dislike of beer and the lack of a good bottle of Jack, I just can't get the words out like you did.

 

Thinkin there should be!

 

Too bad you can't hear the sound the steelpacked Smithys your grampa & his buds remember ... the current production gl***pack Smithy is just another example of a product relying on an old name for it's sales ....

 

Errr, dude. Your not meant to breath through them once there on and running.....

 

And the Pulitzer prize for literature goes to...

 

I wonder if it'd be worth doing a dyno comparison between Smittys and Cherry Bombs?
What other gl*** packs are out there?
-Brad

 

Readers Digest?

 

Dear self: No more drunk dialing, no more drunk texting, no more drunk HAMBing...

 

Ahhh,,, what the heck! if thats the worst thing you do after a few beers.


I think I might have to buy a pair myself.....have a few beers and see

 

Keep drinking man, most artists receive their true inspiration in an altered state. Mr Smithy would be proud.

 

Wow.Around here its more like no mufflers and a Lone Star.

 

Dude...

Frank Zappa did "Smittys and Beer"...

 

Cl***y writing, kinda poetic-like.

I enjoyed it.

 

Here ya go....

 

Sounds like ya had an *****cent ******! HRP

 

Hmmm,other gl***packs?Well,here's the one's I can think of off the top of my head:Smithy's,Thrush,Cherry Bomb,Purple Hornies,Heartthrob,Hedmen Gl***packs,Flowmaster,Speedway Seamless,plus there's probably tons more.