" CHRISTMAS WRENCH " Sing a song of hot rods, of customs, T's and A's Let us all rejoice and raise our voice as Jalopy's fill our days! All across the land, us geezers look up at the stars, we gladly spend the rent money, to maintain our hopped up cars. On this site, we congregate, to watch each others threads while trying to read the torque pattern, for worn out Ford Flatheads! We all have our opinions, about what we think is cool, experience often try's, to show us how to calibrate a tool! Don't do that, it doesn't work, as the tool made a thud, the Rosebud said I give up, trying to loosen a Flathead stud! Hey get the Kroil and ATF , let it soak for 1 more week if that doesn't bust the sucker loose, then we'll all be up the creek! Tie rod ends and wishbones, Nerf bars and raccoon tails, vacuum loud wolf whistles, wont someone post our bail ? Straight pipes blasting way too loud, as we rip apart the night, when people all cover their ears, you know the sound's just right! Pie cut M&H Racemaster slicks, and Iskenderian cams, all go together with pumpkin pie and honey glazed boneless hams. Its that time of year when hoodlums and gear heads get together they huddle in their workshops as outside its nasty weather ! Talking shop and bench racing while remembering days all past, when a string of Weber's made an inline 6, go very very fast! Santa brings a new Wayne head, and a Winfield carburetor seems someone used moms credit card, be sure to pay her later! Its Christmas Eve and all around this wonderful great old nation Hot rod junkies dream their dreams and wait in anticipation They wait to hear the rumble and they wait to hear the roar, of a great big Christmas lead sled as it rolls up to the door! Its almost time to rip some paper, off the boxes on the bench hand me down that special tool, the one and only Christmas wrench! Don't buy me any more slippers or anymore boring Sox just give more brand new wrench's to fill up my old tool box! Lets not sit around and fall asleep after we catch a buzz, lets get up and shake a leg and do what a cool Santa does! Crank up that stereo and push back the table and chair, be like Maceo Parker and dance like you just don't care! The hot rod is in the garage, go grab the keys and let out a yell, let those straight pipes sing a song, and do a burnout loud as hell! Wake up the entire neighborhood and let everyone rejoice as they all wear a smile as they hear the HEMI raise its voice! Lug nuts, torque thrust mags, clutches and flywheels trying to save a buck, while making shady deals Trade for something that is useless, something that you don't need, as you gave away the part you needed, to make a lot more speed! Its OK , its no big deal , it happens all of the time that feeling of an empty wallet as we all loose our mind! But there is a remedy to what troubles us, to make us feel just fine its when the nose of the dragster, inches up to the staging line ! So gather round all of my friends, lets all be grateful that we are free to open up our headers all around the Chrondek Christmas tree ! Be glad we have this forum to express our thoughts and dreams to converse with fellow gear heads and buxom hot rod queens! So now in closing as we clean up the greasy bench be glad we made it another year, with another Christmas wrench! Sincerely from a fellow gear head in Seattle Washington, Dennis. View attachment 4522302
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