What HOT ROD LEGEND would you like to meet?

Don Francisco and Racer Brown, Bingelli (dammit, AV8, drag him in here!!), Orr, Garlits, practically anybody who was active in rodding right before/right after WWII...

 

Barney Navarro.

 

Lil' John Buttera

Virgil Exner

Henry Ford

Steve Evans

and prolly a thousand others i cant think of right now



oh, yeah..........Gotgas

 

I would love to have met and talked at length with the late great Smokey Yunick. The things that man accomplished is mind-boggling. A treasure trove of hot rodding information.

 

Yeah Kurt is talented AND handsome!

 

John Milner or Falfa, not sure which.

Farmall

 

Living: Wally Parks, Norm Gabrowski, TV Tommy
Dead: CJ Pappy Hart

 

I said Hot Rod not HUGE rod. I spent a few hours at bar with him in Vegas one year. Super smart guy who is funnier than hell.

 

Sorry Tommy Ivo has gone :-( , i sat next to him a few years back at CHRR!
well i thought he was but i just checked & apparently he is alive......i's sure it was on here i read he had passed!

Kev.

 

Somebody call a medic.............I'm choking on my frosted mini wheats. That was priceless, truly priceless and yet so CHEESY.
xxx

 

I would have to say Ed Iskenderian and Cole Foster.

 

Yes.

 

.........male: Skratch !

......female: Linda Vaughn !!!

 

Roddy Piper

 

Bo & Luke Duke?

 

i wanna meet boyd coddington so i can tell him how lame he is and punch him in the nuts!...lol


but seriously CORKY COKER (who is on the hamb)

and maybe BILL HINES so i can figure out why he hasnt died from lead poisoning yet! or cancer!

 

Ed Roth
Joe Bailon met him in PF years ago,not sure he was speaking too much in complete sentences..
Linda Lovelace..."The early years"
Sam Barris..to ask if George actually worked on cars BITD...
Dick Kraft.. met him in 95 with a buddy who cloned his early roadster...we hung out with Dick and his lovely wife...a very classy guy...his wife,too
Stan Betz...Dicks nephew,I guess,a very cool guy with the old stories...same pilgrimage to California..
Dean Moon.....corresponded with him many years ago,a little by mail....
Harley Earl...

OK OK OK so some of my guys are dead...if they're dead,I don't REALLY want to meet them yet.....

 

RedNeck you have have my exact list!

Well Almost....

Ed Winfield
Leo Goosen
Harry Miller
George Riley

Have to knock off the last two and add....

Barney Oldfield
Jim Brierly

 

Don Garlits

Brock Yates

Whichever Summers Brother is still alive

Lew Welch-the guy who built the Novi engines-if he's still alive

 

Dean Moon, Ed Roth and Mickey Thompson. All the cool guys are dead.

 

I knew I forgot somebody! I should also add Robert Roof, The Chevy Bros. and the Dickhead at Cragar who decided to change the Miller head from slant-side to flat...so I could kick him in the nads!

 

I've met:
Rod Powell
Cole Foster
Keith Weesner
John "Waldo" Glaspey
Carey Greenwood
Speedo Henley
Paul Cepeda
some others I probably forgot..

I would want to meet (some have past away):
Steve Coonan
Pat Ganahl
Alberto & Lonnie Lopez
Elliot Gilbert
Sonny Madrid
Tommy the Greek
Ed Roth
Ken Howard

and the list goes on....

 

Linda Vaughn YEAH BABY"""

She can snap change my Shift Stick anyday


Gruntis

 

Pat and Brook are class acts...he was my bike building hero long before all the jokers out there now who CLAIM to be bike builders were off their training wheels!

 

Somebody that rarely gets mentioned. Dick Magoogerac. I know I butchered his name but you've heard of Magoo. He was building old style hot rods years before it became fashionable.

 

My top four :

BARNEY NAVARRO - IMHO the unsung legend in hot rodding
DEAN MOON - do you need to ask?
STU HILLBORN - racer, innovator
DEAN BATCHELOR - WWII aviator, designer, racer
BOBBY MEEKS - for his Flathead savvy
CLAY SMITH - for the same Flathead know how

Already met Vic Edelbrock Jnr....would have love to have met Vic Snr.

Rat

 

Oops I forgot....

Harry Westergard - for his kick ass, taildraggin, kustom kreations in the 40s.

Same for Sam Barris too...

Rat