Who would you like to have a beer with ?

I already do that, usually once a month. It's a time-out no bitching at each other about anything session. Just talk about whatever. Kinda nice.

 

Ed Roth

 

Smokey Yunick.

 

Yep that would work

 

Damn fake knockoffs

 

Jeebus!! take a fucking joke and get off the high horse.

 

The Boss - Bill Stroppe

 

My Grandpa Adams (died when I was 7)
Carroll Shelby
Chip Foose
Lee Iacocca
Henry Ford

To name a few....

 

Jeff Beck...I think some of you may have heard of him.

Here is a little excerpt from a recent interview:

St. James: What about cars? You work on cars a little bit? Is that your other main thing?

Beck: Yeah. Yeah that’s what I do more as a main job, than play guitar. Because of the nature of my career, and the way that we’re in England, and my career is basically here, I wouldn’t be able to support myself with the work from England. It’s all corporately-run over there. You’re either big bananas or you’re nothing. You have to pay to play a small club. So I can’t keep going over here, I can’t keep going to Japan. It’s a sort of bi-annual thing or every three years.

St. James: Why did you never move here?

Beck: I don’t know. I love where I live. I’ve got a beautiful place and I belong there. I feel a sense of belonging which will never go. I lived in L.A. for a few months, and that was a good trial period – at no expense because I was actually being forced out of the country by our government because they were taking 90 percent of (my income).

St. James: So what car projects do you have going on right now?

Beck: I’ve got a couple at the moment. I managed to find a rare circa ’34 three-window coupe advertised in a Danish magazine, or Swedish paper. And I just looked at it and thought, ‘It’s all original, and it’s one-off.’ You don’t get those ever! — three-window. Five-window yeah, or sedan. And I sent my girlfriend up to Copenhagen with a mechanic friend of mine. It runs, it’s all there, it’s perfect. So I bought it. It was an impulse buy. Now it’s on it’s way to California.

St. James: Why is that?

Beck: Because I’m busy, busy. I’ve got concerts to do in England, I’ve got a Pavarotti date. You know Pavarotti?

St. James: Yes.

Beck: I played on a single, which he fell in love with. But they didn’t tell him who it was on guitar. And he said, ‘I want that guy.’ And when they told him it was me, he invited me to play in Austria. So I’m gonna do that. It doesn’t look like I’ ll get much mechanics done by Christmas. But by the time Christmas arrives this car will be disassembled, sand-blasted, and ready to re-assemble over at my friend’s shop in California. So I’ll go out there and check it out and just make sure what’s going on.

St. James: Will you do any of the work yourself?

Beck: Not on this particular one, but all the others. I’ve built 14 or 15 street rods in 25 years. And I’ve kept most of them. The ones I bought whole over in L.A. in ’76, and had them shipped back to England – they started to go rusty. And I thought, ‘I’m not going to rebuild this. I didn’t build it in the first place.’ So I cleaned it up, except the ones that were already clean, and let somebody else have them. But I never sold anything after. I can’t see 18 months of work go down the driveway. In a flash someone else has got the car, for a few bundles of notes that are all going to go out the window. So I’ ve built a special shed for them.

St. James: What are your favorites?

Beck: They’re all fantastic. They’ve all got memories. They all twitch and roll and do their things.

St. James: Do you have time to get out and drive them now and then?

Beck: Yeah, every time it stops raining

St. James: Do you do any drag racing?

Beck: Yeah, we’ve been to a couple. The fun is in the run, you know. We take a picnic and take the whole day and go. And watch a few people make idiots of themselves, and come home. It’s not the quality of drag racing like it is here. But there’s some good, real competitive cars. The fun is in meeting other people.

So, Yeah, I think I would like to have an extended talk with him...with beers involved...

 

Jeff Beck...

 

Jeff Beck is too cool!!!

 

Levon Helm. May 26,1940-April 19,2012

 

Original post:
"If you had the chance to sit down and share a few cold beers with some of your car heros,
who would they be ?"
...
Levon Helm, great musician, but not really a car guy...
...

 

Well, since Jesus was put in a few times, Levon is ok too. I should have expanded my question to include heros of any genre', dead of alive. But I had a couple of beers when I wrote it so I wasn't thinking straight.

Don

 

After a case of of beers with Jesus, and watching The Last Waltz,
I'd probably try to sell him my car...
.
.
.

 

..my Dad..

 

...My Lord...

 

The five friends I've lost in the last 5 years or so. None famous but all were good car guys and great friends.

 

well i would say Ryan from here on the H.A.M.B. BUT THE ONLY THING IS I GAVE UP drinking
MY DAD HE KILLED HIMSELF WHEN I WAS 13TEEN I WANT TO KNOW WHY
my wifes dad i miss the shit out of him
there was a lady i was getting ready to ask to be my wife but she passed 20 days before i got to ask her.. i want to know what happened

Von Dutch
Ed Roth
Chip Foose even know we have talked one at a show one time when him and his dad was poking the rust on my old 60 caddy limo
Henry Ford
Carrol Shelby
Jesse James
Larry Watson
jay leno
Indian Larry
there is a shit load more and i would try to get them to let me pinstrip there rides

 

well i dont drink but id love to spend some time with

clint eastwood
richard petty
leno (if he wasnt trying to be mr funny)
elvis
buddy holley
johnny cash
waylon jennings
norma jean
my grandma
sandra bullock
shirley muldowney
dick landy
ronnie sox (again)
stacy david
the acctress that plays ziva david on ncis

 

anyone who likes Beer and Hotrods!

 

Any guy who can help me get my sled on the road, I would gladly shout a beer or three to.

 

Dave Bell, Andy Brizio, 'Wild Willie' Borsch, 'Jungle' Pam Hardy.

 

Well said.me too.

 

All good - my bad - lesson learned - onward and upward for the good of our hobby.

And my real answer:

My Grandfather - who, when I was about 8, took an old rototiller engine that was probably from the 50s (you had to manually wind the pull rope each time) from under his bench in his shop, worked on it for a couple of hours using bits and pieces from his stock of coffee cans and mason jars, and got it running - between him and my dad (who is still here), we built a wooden framed, brakeless, go kart that was the catalyst for my passion for anything that runs on dead dinosaurs - he left us when I was 18 - long before I was a real 'man' - and he never knew what he meant to who I am today - in more ways than the Briggs & Stratton engine. Cheers Grampa.

 

1. Ed Roth
2. Jesse James

 

settle down, ....this gentleman and I have settled our differences and have decided that we don't have any

 

I am not feeling well today and that could be arranged.

I have been thinking about the whole beer and president scenario. Actually any president will do.

So here I am sitting with a presedent of the united states. We are throwing a few back and all at once I say, "OK I'm shit faced and I am going to give to a slap." The president in question says, "Wait a minute." Then he calls one of his goons over and says, '"Son would you take a bullet for me?" "You know I would sir", is his reply. Then he sticks his raybanned face across the table for his slap.

Just think about it.

Truth of the matter is that I have already had a drink with about everyone that I want to have a drink with. There a couple on here that I may throw back a shot or two with before all is said and done, if I am lucky. Luck being the operative word here, like I started this post with I am not feeling well today . . .

Life is lived in minutes.

 

George Saunders, Greta Garbo, Marlene Deitrich, Humphey Bogart, James Dean, etc........