A challenge for the next HAMB drags.............

[Roothawg]

I challenge all of you to form race teams and build yourself a "hot rod". I would like to see more teams like Gordini's and Sam's and even mine.

If you are uncertain about how to go about it....email any of us. It's not about setting new records...it's about the climax of the event. Having people from all over the US show up and hang out...that's what is cool.

If anyone in the OK, TX area needs help in getting started we can have a HAMB build day. I'm in, and if I can speak for Rashy and Radshit...I'm sure they would be for helping as well.
Get started....you have a year.

[Tuck]

in stark contrast to your challenge

why not just show up in a rambler or ANYTHING and have fun?
just show up and run what ya got...

I dont nor did I have the resources to pull off what you did ROOT. It was awesome to watch and I stand back in awe, but I made it to the drags on a shoe string.... like others im sure... and I had a blast.

[CURIOUS RASH]

<font color="green">How bout I just be on your race team, ROOT?

I am far too lazy and po to accomplish what you did.

On another note, I AM going to build what we discussed in the chat room.

The "Okie Dokie Express"

When I was just knee high to a grasshopper, growing up in Iowa, there was a chain of convenience stores named that.

I think it was fate really.

RASHY </font>

[Roothawg]

I am not saying you have to have a full blown race car just a hot rod. If you have a bunch of buddies and an old body out in the pasture, bring it on!!!!

[Radshit]

And............if you have old buddies out in the pasture......bring it on......

[Tuck]

right on root,

I'm actually doing JUST THAT
you seen my fieldster project

Cant wait till the next drags...


Tuck

[JimC]

Roothawg, may I call you that?
It just so happens that whilst you were posting, the local hotrod guru was in my shop laying out plans for the "Showme Coupe"(tm).
Dunno ifn it'll happen by the time the drags come around, but a start is a start.

Now if some body would buy the Merc, the "Showme Coupe"(tm) would take off at a fast pace.

We will see.

P.S. Rashy, I love you!

[CURIOUS RASH]

<font color="green"> SSSSSSHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

ROOT gets awful jealous! </font>

[Roothawg]

fag

[Nick32vic]

hey Root, if i had any old bodys out in the pasture i would,
1. Be building it instead of this plastic body that i got.
2. Be wondering were a pasture came from, considering my high school is basically in my backyard.

But i MIGHT have my "plexiglass" car" (in the words of my car illiterate friend) runnin if the drags are later in the rodding season. Is there any word on when/where it will be next year? Mo-Kan again?

[Deyomatic]

I think they said it would be in the spring.

[CURIOUS RASH]

<font color="green"> SEE?!?!?!? </font>

[Unkl Ian]

[ QUOTE ]
On another note, I AM going to build what we discussed in the chat room.

The "Okie Dokie Express"


[/ QUOTE ] Cool name.Sounds much better than "Rashmobile".Can you share some more details with those of us who missed the chat?

[CURIOUS RASH]

<font color="green">Sorry UNK.

TopSecret

SuperSecretsVille.

I'll PM you though since you were kind enough to do some free striping on that tail gate o mine.

Was that a secret too? </font>

[Radshit]

I don't know, I kind of like "The Rash Wagon "........

[CURIOUS RASH]

<font color="green">you just like my RASH! </font>

[flt-blk]

!!!!!Rashinator!!!!!!

!!!!Rash Eliminator!!! (not the cream)

[Germ]

I'm going to come next year for sure,,,,
PROMISE...

thinking about trying to bring out a 4 banger car,,,,
Is that GAY, we all know it wont be "FAST or MACHO"

I have alot the stuff to build one,,???
TURBO POWERED?
HOMEMADE everything...
BASICALLY we will DRAG a MOTOR and GRENADE at some point.....

I think it would be fun..

even if I ran 20's..
RYAN gets SHOTGUN, and we get the RAMONES...??????
FUCK IT/...

AMERICAN FLAG HELMETS(tm)

anyone from SACTO or NOR CAL intersted in BUILDING something BANGER POWERED with FREE PARTS?
I have alot of shit,,,
and you might too

we could COLLECT..??????

WHO'S ON THE SHITBOXES STARDUST RACING TEAM(tm)_
I'm going to be cranking on the MODEL A's this winter,,,, and building the SMALL BLOCK for the 52....

I'm GAME...

ANYONE wanna try to have a few 4 BANGER cars RACE..????

I WILL NEED HELP..???????
because IM ALWAYS BUSY with side JOBS...
and I'm going to start working with Cole alot more.....

But we could build a really fucking NEAT BANGER powered something?>??????
and it might even suprise some people

MY SHOP, is HOMEBASE

I have AXLES, A MOTOR we could even REFRESH..., TRANS.... REAR ENDS< TIRES and RIMS, SLICKS..... WISHBONES< STEERING BOXES< GAS TANKS, SPRINGS, SEATS, PARTIAL BODIES,,,,,,, BEER< CHICKS< WEED? HELLFIRE< and a JUKEBOX????

WHO'S DOWN!!!!!!!!

GERM

[metalshapes]

Thanks for the offer Roothawq, right now I'm just in the planning and parts hunting stage. But if this is going to happen, and I'd realy build a HAMB Drag Car, I will have plenty of questions to ask. I have no real Drag Race experience, but I think it could be a lot of fun!

[CURIOUS RASH]

<font color="green">Well,

I be damned!
The Germinator hit it on thehead

I want to build a mini rail with a turbo 2.3 Ford I have.

Secrets out
</font>

[Germ]

MODEL A BANGER....... period

[Radshit]

Sounds like a good grunge match of old verses new.......2.3 Ford- v -Model A four Banger.....

[Roothawg]

Rashy won't build it because he's a puss.

[CURIOUS RASH]

<font color="green"> HUGE PUSS!

And I won't build it because I am about to build a FLEET of Mini trikes! </font>

[Roothawg]

Minitirkes....that'll come in handy while you fetch me a pop from the concession stand......

[CURIOUS RASH]

<font color="green">OHHHH!

GOPHER for TEAM ROOT!!!

I like it!

I like it ALOT!!!

Actually,

I was going to get in the lane next to you and video tape those hoppin ass wheels of yours right before I smoke yo ass with a 5 hp Briggs! </font>

[plan9]

ive got an extra 35 cab and frame, a cad motor/trans, and a wide variety of cheap junkyard shit..

team:
"PANTY BANDITS"


????

[Germ]

OSCAR WILDE

[Honest]

Maybe im selfish..but..I see problems ahead when several people invest together in most anything.

Who keeps the car afterwards?
Buy out plan?
Sell it and split the money?
??????

[CURIOUS RASH]

<font color="green"> Honest is a wise man.

I used to have this "friend"

For the sake of argument we'll call her "wife"

We quit getting along so well and all the sudden....

EVERYTHING was hers.

</font>

[Roothawg]

NO, I don't mean buy it together.....

Hmmm..... how do I put this?

I offered the gayest guy I know, all of my few fabrication tools to build an old Dragmaster chassis clone, but he would rather build some gay super secret 1978 Ford Pinto Tulsa digger instead.

I was just gonna help him mock it up and build it. I just like to fabricate. I figure there are guys out there like me that just enjoy building stuff and would rather help someone else to get their fab fix.

[CURIOUS RASH]

<font color="green">That's not what you said in bed last night, SAILOR.

Who you calling gay anyway? </font>

[Roothawg]

Did I say it was you? Hmmmm???

[Rocky]

Tuck wants to join up with the Rocky Racing and Knitting team.. Our motto?
"We usta turn 20's"
Or better yet: Tuck, you could join my team and we could field a 2 hemi-car team....we'd hafta come up with a real snappy [TM] team name. We could wear really gay skin-tight Oregon State Football uniforms with Shriner fez's...I already have my fez!
Germ, I'm lookin forward to seeing you at the races.

[CURIOUS RASH]

<font color="green">Team Name?

OOOHHHH!!

We could be Team ROOT-RASH!!

Dude, we would get ALL the ladies! </font>

[Roothawg]

The rashy-root square tires gang!!!!!!!!!

[plan9]

[ QUOTE ]
OSCAR WILDE

[/ QUOTE ]

YOU GOT IT!

[SamIyam]

Root, I surely hope you're not still sore at me for slugging you in the arm the other day... it's just that I think we are both on the same wave-length, man...

I would jump in and help a friend any way I could just so I can see him have the fun of running down the strip in his own creation... If I didn't have so much attachment to the things I've built... I'd scrap them in a second to start another... the RR was supposed to be a "rotatable" car through my tiny stable of two hot rods... but the things is so damn fun to drive... worry free... comfortable cruising... I just can't seem to part with it... and then there's the BFD... my buddy Tim, whom I'm partners with... don't sell nuthin'! And we went a little overboard with making a lot of parts extra special... it would be hard to part with it either... but I have a hankerin' to build another drag machine... and a fast one... ON THE CHEAP... The first guy that I thought of was germ... the kid has soul... I dreamed up something that would make him a true ruler... not some NHRA tech passing car you tour the west coast GG drag events with... but a REAL extra special car that would make Big Daddy proud... only germ is talking about banger powered antiques... the guy has it in him to go FAST... why fuck around with another antique... anyway... I sit here... dreaming of when the wife will cool off... and I will get the time and money... to do yet another car...

Speaking of challenges... the brain was working overtime on two new ideas... when guys start getting serious enough to build a car to race at MOKAN... I think we need to set up a claimer class... with a $500 claim rule on the motors of ALL cars in competition... or maybe just the winner... but make it worth his while... he wins $500 and someone gets his motor for $500... so theoretically... he should only sink a grand into his mill...

which brings me to the great mill race-off... if LA32 decides he wants the motor in the BFD... I want to build a motor for $999 that will make the BFD run at least 9.99... we can swing that amount of cash... so it would be fun... or why not have yet another raffle??? Someone can collect the dough, take $999 of it to build another motor... and then raffle it off (no buy backs http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif ) ... it could work???
No?

I think my claimer motor deal is the better idea... maybe make the cars all have to weigh a certain weight? Say at least 1500lbs??


You know... all this is just pure mental masturbation... I would just encourage a group of guys to just meet and scrap something together... it can be an old four door rambler... or an old altered or digger... like Nike... Just DO it! I know of a half a dozen guys on here that could pull it off... no problem... if you think it sounds like fun... stop fuckin' around and just get over to one guys shop...

I think the most important thing is that people need to stop thinking about what they cannot do... and start thinking about what they can do TOGETHER!

That's deep.

Jack, you up to haulin' ass?

Sam.

[plan9]

[ QUOTE ]
Root, I surely hope you're not still sore at me for slugging you in the arm the other day... it's just that I think we are both on the same wave-length, man...

I would jump in and help a friend any way I could just so I can see him have the fun of running down the strip in his own creation... If I didn't have so much attachment to the things I've built... I'd scrap them in a second to start another... the RR was supposed to be a "rotatable" car through my tiny stable of two hot rods... but the things is so damn fun to drive... worry free... comfortable cruising... I just can't seem to part with it... and then there's the BFD... my buddy Tim, whom I'm partners with... don't sell nuthin'! And we went a little overboard with making a lot of parts extra special... it would be hard to part with it either... but I have a hankerin' to build another drag machine... and a fast one... ON THE CHEAP... The first guy that I thought of was germ... the kid has soul... I dreamed up something that would make him a true ruler... not some NHRA tech passing car you tour the west coast GG drag events with... but a REAL extra special car that would make Big Daddy proud... only germ is talking about banger powered antiques... the guy has it in him to go FAST... why fuck around with another antique... anyway... I sit here... dreaming of when the wife will cool off... and I will get the time and money... to do yet another car...

Speaking of challenges... the brain was working overtime on two new ideas... when guys start getting serious enough to build a car to race at MOKAN... I think we need to set up a claimer class... with a $500 claim rule on the motors of ALL cars in competition... or maybe just the winner... but make it worth his while... he wins $500 and someone gets his motor for $500... so theoretically... he should only sink a grand into his mill...

which brings me to the great mill race-off... if LA32 decides he wants the motor in the BFD... I want to build a motor for $999 that will make the BFD run at least 9.99... we can swing that amount of cash... so it would be fun... or why not have yet another raffle??? Someone can collect the dough, take $999 of it to build another motor... and then raffle it off (no buy backs http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif ) ... it could work???
No?

I think my claimer motor deal is the better idea... maybe make the cars all have to weigh a certain weight? Say at least 1500lbs??


You know... all this is just pure mental masturbation... I would just encourage a group of guys to just meet and scrap something together... it can be an old four door rambler... or an old altered or digger... like Nike... Just DO it! I know of a half a dozen guys on here that could pull it off... no problem... if you think it sounds like fun... stop fuckin' around and just get over to one guys shop...

I think the most important thing is that people need to stop thinking about what they cannot do... and start thinking about what they can do TOGETHER!

That's deep.

Jack, you up to haulin' ass?

Sam.

[/ QUOTE ]


YEEEAARRR... ok, im pumped... again, i gots a spare 35 truck frame setup for a 9inch plus a cab and either SBC which should still run, or a cadi 390 w/ tranny!

[Rocky]

I dunno, Sam....it took sooooooooo long to scrape the $$ together to buy my ancient engine and then the time and effort to find the shit to make it work...I don't want to lose my engine, even for a $1000 bill, especially after building my entire car around the pecularities of an old hemi.... But of course, in my self absorbed way, I'm imagining someone else actually wanting my engine in the first place!
I gotta give the idear a thumbs down. Now, if I was gonna run a sbc, it'd be a different story.

[plan9]

cna pick up a SBC running for dirt cheap... or grab a late model cad motor... haul ass in the rambler!!

[SamIyam]

Rocky, when you consider the type of car that you're building... of course, the idea is a bad one... but if you were to take... say your old Rambler (the Rocky 59??) slap a good rear end under it, some slicks, a good auto tranny and then a junkyard motor on Nitrous under the hood... that's the type of thing I'm talking about! These aren't motors that are "special" but motors that are expendable... useful... but not cool for what they are... for what they produce... a SBC is a PERFECT example... a Mopar 440 another... or a 383... or an Olds 455... odd brutes... the cars that we would put them in would also be a group effort by groups around the country... as quick as Killer or that guy over in SLO that used to be on here (the one that has the home made intake on the Olds motor in the woodie he built in High School...) anyway, slap a rail job together, get a crap motor and then RUN IT!!

Wha?

It could work... the stock car guys have been doing it for years!
Sam.

[Tuck]

OH YEAH the HEMI HELLFIRE TEAM [TM]

im all over that.... I can picture it now, the pits, with THE rocky36 and the Tuck28, the women, the hot tub and MTV... Ryan standing in for Carson Daily... it would be totally brilliant. ROCKY with his white beard tickler[tm] and kara giving mrs. rocky a back rub in here bikini. While we kick back inbetween blowing away the competition like the FLY etc etc... Tman cooking us lunch and the RRT camper rocking some HIGH NOON and BLEED... we could charge admission to the pits and it would pay for the build up of our rides...

im not hip on yer uniform idea though rock...

[Rocky]

Ehhhhh, who's Kara? The chick in Jolene's dream?
What a production! We'd HAVE TO charge admission to cover Bob Bleed's fee...

[Honest]

How about a T roadster body tied to a frame manufactured from abandoned oil well pipe.
A 348 4 speed combo stick welded in under the cowl..sporting a too wide 9 inch and Hamms beer keg gas tank.
Farmall steering box, steering wheel and ..and three rib implement tires removed from the shit spreader wagon.
Square roll bars and windshield off of the "Batmobile" 50s fiberglass ski boat in the pasture.

Two huge truck batteries for ballast..in a pickup bed made from a nickel Coke machine and plywood scraps. A neat fiberglass seat "borrowed" from the local laundry mat.

No radiator ..no front brakes...no fear

It's been done...

[SamIyam]

Ok, maybe not THAT primative http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

But I like the way you're thinking... and that is... CHEAP. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Sam.

[FWilliams]

claimer racing sucks, and has been the downfall of more friendships and grassroot racing series than i care to recall

[Germ]

[ QUOTE ]
How about a T roadster body tied to a frame manufactured from abandoned oil well pipe.
A 348 4 speed combo stick welded in under the cowl..sporting a too wide 9 inch and Hamms beer keg gas tank.
Farmall steering box, steering wheel and ..and three rib implement tires removed from the shit spreader wagon.
Square roll bars and windshield off of the "Batmobile" 50s fiberglass ski boat in the pasture.

Two huge truck batteries for ballast..in a pickup bed made from a nickel Coke machine and plywood scraps. A neat fiberglass seat "borrowed" from the local laundry mat.

No radiator ..no front brakes...no fear

It's been done...



[/ QUOTE ]

You need to get a JOB at my shop!

How much ass are we talking about hauling sam?
I build my shitboxes on the HUSTLE and the MOVE..
which was why I was thinking I could HUSTLE all the shit into my shop into something antique powered..??

Remember sam I been going for a long time, and HAVe just decided I need to play with something FORIEGN like a small block CHEVY in my KUSTOM...

I figured trying to bang me out a QUICK 4 BANGER powered JALOPY in a YEAR might work....????

I'm in it for the PUSSY, BEER , FUN, and rock-n-roll, and whatever HELLFIRE I can CREATE on a trip cross country..... ain't nobody getting my engine or my car unless they want to PLAY with my sweaty balls..

germ

[Roothawg]

The claimer deal might get some big time rivalry going. I know a guy that claimed a motor from a friend of mine , and when you claim a motor they get yours. He ended up with 8 diffeent size pistons! It was amazing this thing would even run. The guy who claimed theirs ended up smelling like a rose. They build all their stuff right. He was pissed to say the least. Dunno, would have to have some strict guidelines.

[CURIOUS RASH]

<font color="green">ROOT,

You know I love ya, just not that way.

I appreciate the offer but, what am I gonna do with a dragster?

Where would I build it? Keep it?

I would have to start cooking METH like every other broke dick in this neck of the woods just to fund such a proposition.

I don't know if you noticed or not, BUT, I dragged two vehicles out there That I already can't afford to do right.

I would be honored to be a part of the Drag-N-Hop team. Wish I had thought of coming down for the build-up when you were thrashing on that thing.

When that sucker whips the ass of everything else in it's class. Then I will talk about a dragster.

Oh yeah, We are looking at a place that would answer the where to build and where to keep questions. But that will be a while.

Really, I like YOUR idea overall,

The other ideas, claimers, weights, blah blah blah. Would work if kept to a certain class.

I want no part of all that crap.

I live by rules all day long.

I don't need them invading my fun time.

RASHY </font>

[Phil1934]

This might be just the thing to get me back on my 4 cyl Model Y project. It's been lagging due to other engine swap projects and a 70+ hour week, but looks like things are slowing down to a saner level. I might knock out a tech or two for Doc's web site along the way.

[SamIyam]

ok... so the claimer rule SUCKED... and the thousand dollar engine is a pipe dream... I can tell you one thing... you couldn't build a motor... even a mild street motor with good heads (like Racefab did) for anything CLOSE to a grand... the machine work alone would cost a grand! RACEFAB has access to the machine shop I hear... anyway, I think Roots idea to get people pumped is a good one... I don't think guys should beat themselves up over this... but if it's enough to get you out in the garage... building a car... let it.

And Jack, come by some time and we'll talk...
Sam.

[Travis]

I've always thought about building a 59/60 stripped 2-door Biscayne and stuffing in abig block and doing it early 60's style and naming it "Nucking Futs!"

Travis

[Roothawg]

Now the way they used to do it in the day.....

Lbs. per cubic inch.

As long as people are honest this would be a lot of fun and it would always be heads up.

The idea would be to slide in at the lightest weight in the class and squeak by with the closest cubic inch to the max.

[Roothawg]

BTW, Rashy I never knew you quit cooking Meth........

No problem...I'll just find one of those adopt-a-friend agencies.

[Radshit]

Root, you don't need to go to that extreme........I'll be your friend.

I just eat a lot of Tacos and Fart frequenty......


Need I remind everybody......including GERM....

There is no Replacement For Displacement!.......that's the way they used to do it Bro'S!!!!!!!!!

[JimC]

I am excited about Germ coming.
I want his autograph.
Just saw his photo in the magazine.

[SamIyam]

It's not like germ isn't an able body and could put something together... he's go the shop to die for and the parts pile that would make any of us jealous... I'm just waiting for him to drop by so we can get started on his drag machine... possible signage on the door... "Life's a Drag" with a dude taking a hit off a pinner... or "In Drag" with two dudes running a foot race dressed in womens clothes... or...

Sam.