Tuesday 19 February 2013

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.

4 comments:

  1. Third times the charm? Now don't kick me off the line please Mickey D....
    Ralph 'Corvair-Killer' Nader gave a talk at the college I was at in the 70's...sure he was paid handsomely...amazing how some people can make a living doing basically nothing useful....
    About that time my neighbor, a WW2 era Navy pilot was restoring a Turbo Corvair for his son's graduation gift. He'd just finished his big 327 Chevy powered Studabaker...a really cool car. We still have a Drag Strip in Sac-Town. Haven'tb been in several years...last time was during a 'Bug-in'. Some really quick VW powered cars. Now I gotta watch that other vid...vroooom vrooooom. Hope this one makes it.

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  2. You're a classic Laz . . . my favourite Hot Wheels car when they first came out was the Bug, been into the Cali look Dak-Daks ever since, especially the lunatic quickies . . . speaking of lunatics, turbo Corvair . . . WTF ??? We used to have our own strip here as well, with huge historical provenance going back to the early sixties . . . but I guess another golf course and gated community was something we really had to have . . . at least according to the bent as fuck local council . . . cheers buddy.

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    1. Google 1966 Corvair Monza Spyder....look like rear engined Camaros.

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    2. All over it like a rash mate, never knew the Corvair was available in a sporty model. Ta laz.

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