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| | | | | 2445.224 in reply to 2445.222 | |
| I, like many others, wish I had video, but back then if you got cought with a video you went to jail do not pass go, even if it was months later. Alot of times you do not tell some stories becuase if you were not there then they sound truly unbeleivable. One of the few reasons I like Freiburger is he was there too. Saw him there in the Valley and was there with Jacobs when Speedy raced on Alameda. IMO thats were I think he gets some of his insights from. |
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| | | | | 2445.225 in reply to 2445.223 | |
Thanks, jforb!!!!
Way to go, lump!!!
What a cover!
Thanks, DF!
Could not agree with you more, can wait, but will have to. I get mine on the newsstand. |
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| | | | | 2445.226 in reply to 2445.217 | |
| Hey lar.......It said you were crying in your beer!....Just kidding, but it did say>>"I was so upset, I had to hide in the trailer for about 20 minutes" But I still love your car no matter what happened! |
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| | | | | 2445.227 in reply to 2445.226 | |
Well, they didn't mis-quote me......And I didn't lie.
Thanks, Mr. C. |
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| | | | | 2445.228 in reply to 2445.1 | |
Freiburger, I hate to tell you this but one of your competitor magazines has already come up with the perfect formula.
Your friend, (and my hero) Brock Yates states in his rule book "The only rule is: there are no rules." If you want to put 1000 cubic inches in a Pinto, thats fine, BUT you have to DRIVE the car accross the country with no support vehicles of any kind and purchace your gasoline along the way. You have to race at 7 or 8 different venues spaced between 500 and 1000 miles apart on consecutive days. Now this is true automobile racing! In fact to me, it is BY FAR, the most meaningful automobile race on the planet.
F-1 cars couldn't compete. NASCAR cars couldn't compete, IRL cars couldn't compete, John Force in his funny car couldn't compete, and I doubt that many cars in your "Pump Gas Drags" could compete.
After all, what we drive on the road every day are AUTOMOBILES, not race cars. So why don't we race AUTOMOBILES instead of race cars?
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| | | | | 2445.229 in reply to 2445.181 | |
Well that puts me out. The emission Nazi's in NC have determined that I can't have a V8 in a 1984 S10 and get an inspection sticker. I must have a 4-banger or 6-banger with all emissions componets installed. As I normally don't give a F about what the state says about emisions I figured I was cool to race. But I will follow any rules you feel are necessary even if it mean's I don't show. When I bought the S-10 I was living in VA and could put vintage plates on it.
Umm, VA uses Vintage tags for cars 25 years or older. All other vehicles must pass emissions unless you're in one of the few counties that doesn't yet force you to be sniffed. You can get around it but that's the letter of the law. 1984 isn't old enough for Vintage here... |
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| | | | | 2445.230 in reply to 2445.221 | |
Check out the "Cover"!
Red, white, & Blue...........Bombs bursting in air.
How appropriate.
Thanks to all the guys working for us in the middle-east so we can be over here having fun!!
GOD BLESS YOU ALL!!! |
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| | | | | 2445.231 in reply to 2445.230 | |
Sweet! The lump on the cover. What is the world coming toż (I have not figured out this silly south american keyboard yet. )
Thanks DF.
LUMP |
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| | | | | 2445.232 in reply to 2445.231 | |
LUMP,
Important question.
I always heard that the water flushed in the toilet spins the opposite way when you're in the southern hemisphere. What happens on the equator? |
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| | | | | 2445.233 in reply to 2445.232 | |
Well Barry, LUMP can't answer that question yet. You see, he has to put his head in the bowl while he flushes. Why, you ask? To keep the swelling to a minimum! LOL. No really, the hotel LUMP is staying in had to double their ice production just so he could alleviate the swelling for sleep!..LOL.
Really though, the cover is too cool. I hope Lump is proud of himself, I know I would be. Too bad he didn't put the "big" pills in it and try to win......just kidding. Also, you guys cars are so damn neat. Each one is a different approach. I read the magazine cover to cover yesterday and AGAIN today! I LOVE the quotes. I am really jealous of Larrys Corvette!!!! too damn nice! Finally, my dear friend Ray....good pics of his car and a lot of obvious respect from the Hotrod staff. I knew you guys would love him! To fully beat a dead horse......Congrats everyone!
..............."Don't worry west coast, we have even bigger plans for you." ???????????? Drifting? LOL. Never count an Outlaw out! |
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| | | | | 2445.234 in reply to 2445.233 | |
Thanks for the compliment on the Vette!!!! Really!!
I STILL DON'T have a copy.. Slow mail in Idaho. They have to bring it in on the Oregon Trail, and the horses have to be changed twenty times between Wyoming and Boise.
Lump is in Equador. He did get to see the cover on the site. Red, white, and blue, and Lump bursting in air. Not bad, AAAYY?
I LOVE IT! |
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| | | | | 2445.236 in reply to 2445.235 | |
| Heh - "no trailers"? Hehe, couldn't resist! Nice cover, I'll be looking for it on the newstand for sure! |
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| | | | | 2445.237 in reply to 2445.235 | |
jforb,
thanks for scanning and posting that for me. despite what everyone says on here about your slow highway trailerless car from arizona you are "not bad."
And thanks to DF and Stephen Kim for the good writeup and photos! Can't wait to get a copy of the magazine so I can read about everyone else too.
LUMP
Edited 7/1/2004 10:03 pm by THELUMP (THELUMP1) |
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| | | | | 2445.238 in reply to 2445.237 | |
Hey, Lump,
don't forget,,,,,,jforb has a trailer!
To Jforb, thanks again for putting the mag up on the web. I STILL don't have it!!!!! My teeth are clenched as tight as my jaw bone will allow without poppin' it loose!!!
Lar |
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| | | | | 2445.239 in reply to 2445.238 | |
jforb has a trailer? and here he goes busting my balls when I had to borrow a trailer to get to memphis...
Lar, the mag does not show up in my city until the 10th. Damn sled dogs!
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| | | | | 2445.240 in reply to 2445.239 | |
| On page 153 it says... online pictures and videos of every car that competed use search words pump gas drags... I can't find them are they up? Jim H |
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| | | | | 2445.241 in reply to 2445.240 | |
| Jim, I got them by clicking on Ryan's Cover picture in the upper right hand corner of the Home site,, then click on the "Pump Gas Drags winners". |
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| | | | | 2445.243 in reply to 2445.239 | |
| Yeah, I have a trailer. I use it for hauling junk home to work on. Like my 55
You could have just driven your Chevelle down to Memphis. Gotta be easier than using my POS trailer!
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