I got an anonymous call about lunch time that said I needed to find the Feb. edition of RODDERS DIGEST and take a look at page nine. Yep that is me and my son Kaleb last spring at the Goodguy's meet in Atlanta. I just went up to do the HAMB meet and greet with a few of the guys around Georgia. The weekend went to hell on Friday and Saturday was a wash but now I am glad I made the trip up on Sunday. The old man used to scour the magazines looking for piece's of his car on part of a page now look at it!!!
Here is a link to the artical... http://www.roddersdigest.com/ME2/Au...F6F697&AudID=590AE909D29240978D7F658E716E36E8
timmy - did you get tommy's wooden box full of magazines that he or his cars were in? i sure hope someone got it that will appreciate it. for the rest of you who didn't know tommy - the "patina'd" hood that's on the J now is one that tommy used when he went to the hamb drags so he could stick that scoop up through the hood. the car normally had a pristine hood on it that is painted the same yellow as the rest of the car, but he didn't want to cut it up. thus the unmatching version. timmy (again) - don't you think it's about time you painted that hood to match the rest of the car?
Thanks Atch and the hood you speak of is in storage behind my house awaiting the rebuild of four Rochester two barrel carbs to go on the 4x2 Offy intake sitting in the garage. Besides, this is the hood that came with this car originally and still has the holes where the plexigl*** scoop(green) went on it!! My old man ,WEEKENDER , left me the stack of magazines with a fender here or a roof shot there or his favorite, some guy leaning on the rear quarter panel on the main drag at the NSRA Nationals in the late seventies. Never a shot of the whole car for what he built till now. Is it ironic it was on fathers day 2007 with my 14yr. old son in the car with me at his first big car show ever. I only made the old car road worthy and put an extra gear in it for highway use so I DESERVE NO CREDIT of it being in the magazine. I only like to go thrash it every once and a while. Thats why in the picture the transmission was out and only able to pull itself and do burnouts. The funny thing about the article is it has no mention of this car yet it tells the story of it just the same. The car was built in a chicken coupe on a farm in Millersburg Missouri and was tuned and tore apart and rebuilt in the service station of his friend Billy Paine's 66 on nights and on weekend's to go on to hold the world record multiple times. This is how he got his deserved name his friend Richard Loshe tagged him with long ago WEEKENDER!!!!
hey bro this is your cuz uncle tommy is setting up there checking that mag out telling everybody he sees hey check out my boy and grandson --neatooooh !!!!!!
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