CHRR 2011 "THE MOVIE" ['HOTRODEDDIE'] . . . . THE WORLD PRETTY MUCH STOPS FOR ME IN 1970/71 WHEN IT COMES TO AUTOMOTIVE STUFF . . . . BY 1972 THE ENVIRONMENTALIST AND GREENIE CO-OP HAD STARTED TO EXACT THEIR PISSWEAK REVENGE ON ALL THAT HAD GONE DOWN IN THE PRECEDING DECADES . . . . THE GENERAL PUBLIC WANTED PROTECTION FROM KILLER AUTOMOBILES . . . . BECAUSE RALPH FUCKING NADER AND THE PRESS TOLD THEM SO.

NOT ONLY THAT, BUT DESIGNERS SUDDENLY SEEMED TO LOSE ALL CREATIVITY AND INSPIRATION, CARS BECAME GROTESQUE PARODIES OF WHAT THEY ONCE WERE, BALLS CUT OFF BY THE OIL CRISIS AND MEDIA RUN CAMPAIGN FOR STUPID, FUCKED UP LITTLE CARS THAT WERE ONLY GOOD FOR JOCKEYS AND DWARVES WITH A STYLE DEFICIENCY . . . . THE ONCE GREAT POWERPLANTS FROM THE BIG THREE IN DETROIT WERE STRANGLED AND EMASCULATED BY THE SOCIAL DOGOODER LOBBY IN CAHOOTS WITH 'ARSECLOWN GENERAL' NADER AND HIS GLOBAL ARMY OF SOULLESS,  LOBOTOMISED FOLLOWERS, SO BY THE MID SEVENTIES WE WERE FUCKED !!!

THE MOST WONDERFUL THING ABOUT THE LAST THIRTY YEARS FOR ME HAS BEEN THE EVER MORE POPULAR RISE OF FOLK WITH A LOVE FOR ALL THE GREAT SHIT FROM THE DAYS BEFORE THE BIG DUMB DOWN, THE IDIOTIC, MAD, PASSIONATE SOULS WHO WANT TO KEEP THE ESSENCE OF THE DAYS OF UNLIMITED POWER AND PERFORMANCE ALIVE AND KICKING . . . . THE PRESERVATION AND PRESENTATION OF PRE 1970 DRAG MACHINERY REPRESENTS THE PINNACLE OF THIS ETHOS, TO BE ABLE TO STILL SEE THESE BEHEMOTH BIG BANGERS IN ALL THEIR SPLENDOUR AND GLORY IS WORTHY OF ABSOLUTE ADMIRATION AND RESPECT, NOT TO MENTION THE TESTICLE TICKLING EXCITEMENT THE ORIGINAL SPEED KINGS INDUCE.

THE DUDES WHO RACED THESE WICKEDLY WILD JIGGERS BACK IN THE DAY WILL BE FOREVER MY HARDCORE HEROES OF THE 1/4 MILE, THINGS HAVE GOT FASTER SINCE THEIR HEYDAY BUT THEY AIN'T GOT ANY COOLER OR ANY MORE REQUIRING OF NUTS THE SIZE OF BASKETBALLS . . . . SITTING TWO FEET BEHIND A NITRO BURNING MILL THAT WAS CAPABLE OF SPLATTERING BITS OF THE PILOT ALL OVER THE NEXT TOWN HAS GOTTA BE THE DEFINITIVE DEMONSTRATION OF COOL UNDER PRESSURE.