Nitro Madness AA/FA

[Rapid Randy Baker]

Well I found this:



But nobody was doing any of this in there:

[WildcatOne]

That sounds like the greatest, man. Great story, and from a different perspective...you're usually the guy driving the race! Very, very cool read, Rapid...Cheers, WC1

[draglist]

Thanks, Rapid. Cool stuff. I'll vouch for those In N Out Burgers, too! bp

[draglist]

PS -- Front page news! bp

[Rapid Randy Baker]

Thanks again BP!!

WC, just in case you think we don't think of you except in here:

[jim sanders]

[Eric David Bru]

2 nice '56s in that post Rapid!!

EDB

[Rapid Randy Baker]

Anybody want to see a few hunder bakersfield CHHR picts, try this:

http://s12.photobucket.com/albums/a245/ ... KERSFIELD/

Rapid

[WildcatOne]

The VWs are awesome, Rapid! I love the convertibles...that one looks like it has some major engine upgrades...the oval is a hybrid. Great car. It has an engine hood and wheelz from a '64, but the car looks to me like it has a '59 body. I appreciate that he didn't paint it up all silly. To my eye, that is the easiest way to ruin a restoration. Good taste and a degree of restraint can make all the difference in how an old car looks. This one looks great just like it is, don't it...another example is last night in Beaumont, I went outside on a break and parked across the street was a bone-stock '37 Plymouth sedan. It was gigantic. Almost like a real-life cartoon car...an extremely LARGE car...it had the original paint job, everything was original and not restored, just brought along and kept running...dark green paint that you could just about peel off with your fingernail...but it was beautiful...must have weighed at least 5,000 pounds...quarter-inch-thick steel fenders...the body slightly thinner (I walked around it and knocked on the fenders, doors, trunk and body shell...varying thicknesses but the thinnest metal panels were more than twice that of new cars, which are as thin as paper) the original license plates...everything, seat covers over the original tattered velour-type deep-padded couches that were left alone...now, if this guy had taken this car and did a jazzy paint job on it, it would spoil the effect that the car got across...same with that VW...it is perfect, in my book. Thanks for shooting those pics, man...VWs have cred, and you picked a couple of fine examples of two different ways of fixing them up...Life is good! WC1

[Gator]

Randy..The Broz,Gordy,Donnie & I did Milt's a few times..Great Food..
Your report is excellent!!!!!!!!