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Let's face it, there are some cars you might simply pass up because you didn't know their history-and that's exactly the case with a 1929 Ford roadster pickup owned by Ray and Janet Allison. Many years ago, it was built by Ed Ducazau. A '32 Ford frame was "pinched," its front end was removed, and replaced with a chrome-moly tube bent to shape. Ed powered his '29 with a 1952 331 cubic-inch Cadillac with six Stromberg carbs.

When Ray Allison is cruisin' down the Pacific Coast Highway in this show-winning pickup... everything is great! Ever wonder why so many people flocked to Southern California? This is why!

The power went through a '39 Ford gearbox to a closed driveshaft and into a '40 Ford rear end with 4:11's. With that configuration, Ed Ducazau entered his '29 Ford Roadster pickup in the 1960 Grand National Roadster Show in Oakland, and won "Best Rod".

From the rear, you can see the unique rear nerf bars, reversed '39 Ford taillights, chromed transverse rear leaf spring, and chromed '40 Ford rear end.

After winning this prestigious award, it was featured on the cover and inside the May, 1962 issue of Hot Rod Magazine. It was also used by Meguiar's in their print advertising throughout the '60s, it also appeared on bubble gum cards, and it was featured on the cover of So-Cal Speed Shop's catalog from 1962-'65.

Some time later, David Ball acquired ownership of this roadster pickup from his friend Ed Ducazau. Then, in April of 1971, Ball needed some cash, so Ray Allison bought the old hot rod to help him out, and that Ray's son would have a car to drive to high school in two years.

nside, the Stewart-Warner Winged gauges look right at home in the finned aluminum instrument cluster, which cleanly mounts on the custom fabricated dash. The white leather upholstery and red carpets finish off the interior

A month or so later, the car had to be taken away from him-a little mishap at a neighbor's house left the front end damaged. Ray and his wife Janet were not "car people", so there was no desire to fix the old car. For the next 31 years it lived in the garage.

In 2002, Ray's nephew, Steven Cody, talked him into "sponsoring" the rebuilding of the old inoperable car. Cody, owner of Black Magic Racing in Lakeside, California, realized that this roadster pickup was originally built as a show truck, not a street-worthy driver.

This is the 331-inch, '52 Cadi-llac engine that Ed Ducazau installed way back when.

The first thing that he and Ray agreed on was that the car should be brought back to its '60s condition and style, except for safety and dependability considerations. Cody maintained the "29 A Rod Journal," and did a masterful job on the car until severe back problems caused the work to dramatically slow down.

Even though this original pickup had this style of header when Ed Ducazau built it, these new stainless headers that Ray Allison had Dan Fink Metalworks do are even more exciting. The original side nerf bars, in front of the rearwheels, are reminiscent of early dirt track racers

The direction Cody established in these early months helped produce a highly detailed, extremely well-finished, and authentic drivable show truck.

In December of 2005, Steven Cody completed his work on Ray and Janet Allison's roadster pickup. Upholstery was next, so Ray had Roberto's Auto Trim Shop take care of that. Once that was done, Ray and Janet decided to take it to a show, though they had never been to a car show before.

Not only do Ray and Janet Allison enjoy their pickup, so do show-goers!

They decided to take it to the only car show going at that time of the year: the 2006 Grand National Roadster Show. Even though Ray was a late entry, John Buck, the show's owner, was very helpful in accommodating the obviously-deserving pickup. The pickup then won its first "new" award from the show that made it famous.

After the show, Ray had those beautiful polished stainless steel headers custom fabricated by John West at Dan Fink Metalworks. Now, with the support of his "Zeros" car club members, Ray and Janet are driving to car shows, winning awards, and having fun.

The Allison's roadster pickup will be featured in Street Rodder, and it will return to its "roots" at the 2007 Grand National Roadster Show on January 26th-28th (visit www.hotrodshows.com). Blackie Gejeian has also invited the '29 Roadster Pickup to attend his prestigious, all-invitational 2007 Fresno Autorama. Ray and Janet may not be "car people," but they are nice people!

The direction that Steve Cody (right) established in the early months helped produce a highly detailed, extremely well-finished, and authentic drivable show truck for Ray Allison (left).

Quick Info

Vehicle Make: Ford
Model Year: 1929
Model: Model A
Body Style: Roadster Pickup (all steel), custom smoothed and filled
Frame: 1932 Ford
Wheels and Tires, Front: 15 x 5 Chrome Wire, 165 x 15 BFGoodrich whitewall
Wheels and Tires, Rear: 15 x 8 Chrome Wire, 285 x 15 BFGoodrich whitewall
Engine: 1952 Cadillac OHV V-8, 331 cubic inches
Intake: 3x2 barrel Rochester carburetors
Exhaust: Custom-made Stainless Steel
Transmission: Corvette T-10 4-speed
Rear End: 1940 Ford, with 4:11 gears
Interior: Custom-fabricated dash, finned instrument cluster with winged Stewart-Warner gauges, chrome steering column, white leather upholstery and custom Red Square Weave carpet and floor mats
Paint: PPG Laser Red with pin stripes

  
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The 4 Wheel Parts Canfield Truck and Jeep Fest last July was a premier event and we hope you enjoyed the coverage in the November issue. If you closed your eyes to snap pictures and fired off the camera aimlessly, you could hardly not catch a cool truck or happening. We shot so many interesting rigs that we decided to put some into a “Best-Of” collection. Our choices run the gamut from the cost-was-no-object, way over the top, to some really nice daily drivers, the kinda weird and some sweet vintage iron. Want to feast your eyes on more beauties like these? Then be sure to reserve July 26-27, 2008 as the Truck and Jeep Fest will return to Canfield with even more vehicles.


Camo Scrambo - Judging by his “Bowhuntin” license plate, Doug Dove, of Chillicothe, Ohio, likes to hear the twang of a bow in the woods. If so, he has the perfect Jeep. His ’83 Jeep Scrambler has a mildly upcammed 350 Chevy transplant in front of a basically stock drivetrain. With a 4Wheel Drive Hardware 4-inch lift, the truck mounts 35 inch Mickey Thomson MTZs on Champion beadlocks. The paint is a bed liner kind of material Doug didn’t identify but it looks to be just about bulletproof and perfect for avoiding brush “pinstriping” from ‘wheeling in the woods.



Bowtie on Air - This ’76 Chevy shortbed stepside bears only a superficial resemblance to its original self. Dave Gwin designed and built a custom air suspension on a pair of GI deuce-and-a-half Rockwell axles. If we read his spec sheet right, he has a total of more than four feet of travel available at the flip of a switch. It mounts 425/65-22.5 Goodyears on custom 22.5 rims. The 350 smallblock is enhanced with a hot cam, intake and carb, as well as a custom exhaust. The 350 hands off to a TH-350 trans and NP-203 t-case. The Rockwells carry 6.72:1 cogs and steers from both the front and rear via hydraulics. Obviously, it has a tilt bed. The superb paint and graphics come from Randy McFarland. Just behind the cab Dave mounted a screen on the chassis and was playing monster truck DVDs for the fun and edification of the crowd.



Classic Michigan Mudder - Rick Heinze, the Junior, of Morenci, Michigan, has been mudding this resurrected ’53 Chevy 3100 in competition and fun for the past seven years. It’s homebuilt and powered by a big bad 454 Chevy. The body has been mounted onto a later model GM truck chassis and with 8-inch Superlift springs, it mounts a set of 44 inch Interco Boggers. The rear axle is a “Lincoln-Locked” GM 14-bolt and the front a Dana 60. The old Bowtie managed a fourth place finish in the mud bog competition in a spread that was only three tenths of a second from second to fourth. As Maxwell Smart used to say, “Missed it by THAT much!”



Khaki Cowboy - This rig shows that it isn’t the number of things bolted onto a Jeep, it’s which ones. Kevin Killmier’s ’06 Rubicon mounts 37 x 13-50-16 Mickey Thompson Baja Claws. To get there, Kevin installed a 6-inch Fabtech kit and a body lift. Other details include a Hanson winch bumper with a Warn XD900i winch and or Fab tube doors.

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Not Your Grampa’s Chevy - In 1967, GM rolled out a completely redesigned line of trucks but Bob Walter’s bears only a superficial resemblance to the C-10 that rolled off the line at Chevrolet that year. To start with, Bob turned the two-wheeler into a four-wheeler. Beyond that he went max performance. The powerplant is a very built 355 smallblock with a tunnel ram with dual 500cfm Edelbrocks. It’s lifted with a Superlift 12-inch kit and mounts 44-inch Interco Boggers on Mickey Thompson wheels.



The Big Six - Robert Malec’s ’62 Chevy K10 Sharknose marks the era when the last of the old “Stovebolt” style Chevy sixes were sold. Showing only 34,000 miles, it had lived and worked on a New Jersey farm most of its life and was fitted with a snowplow. Tan house paint, applied by brush, preserved the body and made the resto a lot easier. Mechanically, little was needed but a major service and some carb work. The big 261ci six runs like a top and has the grunt to turn the 33 x 13.50 Interco TSLs on Pro Comp Rock Crawler wheels. The interior is factory stock and original, as is the drivetrain.


Tilt-Nose Willy - Willys Overland engineers wouldn’t believe the treatment Christopher Fritch gave their work truck some 60 years later. The ’48’s most obvious mod is the nicely executed tilt front that covers an equally nicely done 350 that mounts an Edelbrock Performer intake with a Holley 600 feeding the fire, Hooker block hugger headers and a custom exhaust provides an escape route for the digested gasoline. A GM drivetrain, including a Turbo 400 trans and Dana 44 disc brake front axle carries the power down to 35 x 14.50-15 Super Swamper SSRs on American Racing Outlaw wheels.



orange, but Not Crushed - Most ’57 Willys Wagons have long since had their final appointment with the crusher. Not so Dave Doepker’s. And Dave means to see that you don’t forget it! The basically stock Willys is a feast of orange. The superb body and interior work is all done in various shades of the color-that-is-fruit. The stock Willys 226ci Hurricane flathead six included. Other than the 33 x 12.50 Mickey Thompson tires on chrome spoker wheels and a Flowmaster muffler, the wagon is mechanically stock. The interior is retro-style custom in a pumpkin color that really works with the wood details. This Willys was a super hit and earned a Show-n-Shine award.



Opel Tracker It’s been said the ’68-74 Opel GT was one of the most lovely body styles ever fitted to a motor car. It’s also been said that the performance barely reached anything that could loosely be called “sporty.”We’re not sure what Tom Bedore of Follansbee, West Virginia, thinks about that, but he knows what happens when you combine that curvaceous body with a ‘97 Geo Tracker. Tom says that only Opel or Geo parts were used in the conversion, with the exception of a 6,000 pound Warn winch, fabricated bumpers and nerf bars and the Buckshot Mudder tires. Don’t know how else to say it, but it works!



Rolling Thunder Ram Dually Trying to get a photo of Marty and Kathy Miozzi’s Dodge just about required armed guards to keep people away for the few minutes needed. The compelling part of this truck is the custom made suspension. It offers 22 inches of lift on the fabbed four-link setup. The truck mounts six 49 x 21-16.5 IROKs on custom built rims. The V10 is stock but for a 3-inch dual exhaust system. No doubt when climbing into this truck, it’s wise to stop halfway and get used to the altitude for a while before proceeding. This truck was a serious crowd pleaser, as evidenced by garnering a people’s choice Show-n-Shine award.




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WIFE: "There's trouble with the car. It has water in the carburettor."
HUSBAND: "Water in the carburettor? That's ridiculous."
WIFE: "I tell you the car has water in the carburettor."
HUSBAND: "You don't even know what a carburettor is. I'll check it out.
Where's the car?"
WIFE: "In the pool



Drink Driving...
  
..   During the big DUI Dragnet, a Highway Patrolman waited outside a popular local bar, hoping for a bust.
At closing time as everyone came out, he spotted his potential quarry. The man was so obviously inebriated that he could barely walk. He stumbled around the parking lot for a few minutes, looking for his car. After trying his keys on five others, he finally found his own vehicle.
He sat in the car a good ten minutes as the other patrons left. He turned his lights on, then off, wipers on then off. He started to pull forward into the grass, then stopped. Finally when he was the last car, he pulled out onto the road and started to drive away.
The Patrolman, waiting for this, turned on his lights and pulled the man over. He administered the breathalizer test, and to his great surprise the man blew a 0.00! The Patrolman was dumbfounded!
"This equipment must be broken!" exclaimed the Patrolman.
"I doubt it," said the drunk, "tonight I'm the Designated Decoy!"
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After shopping for most of the day, a couple returns to find their car has been stolen. They go to the police station to make a full report. Then, a detective drives them back to the parking lot to see if any evidence can be found at the scene of the crime. To their amazement, the car has been returned.

There is an envelope on the windshield with a note of apology and two tickets to a music concert. The note reads, "I apologize for taking your car, but my wife was having a baby and I had to hot-wire your ignition to rush her to the hospital. Please forgive the inconvenience. Here are two tickets for tonight's concert of Garth Brooks, the country-and-western music star."

Their faith in humanity restored, the couple attend the concert and return Home late. They find their house has been robbed. Valuable goods have been taken from throughout the house, from basement to attic. And, there is a note on the door reading, "Well, you still have your car. I have to put my newly born kid through college somehow, don't I?"


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Oink, Oink!

Hurry up and write the @#&^*! ticket, the bars close in 20 minutes.

My car needs a tune-up, otherwise you would not have caught me.

If you were on the same stuff as I am you wouldn't be so uptight.

Didn't I see your butt get kicked on "COPS"?

You just ruined a new personal record.

I can't reach my license unless you hold my beer.

Sorry, Officer, I didn't realize my radar detector wasn't plugged in.

Aren't you the guy from the Village People?

Hey, you must've been doin' about 125 mph to keep up with me! Good job!

Excuse me. Is "stick up" hyphenated?

I thought you had to be in relatively good physical condition to be a police officer.

I was going to be a trooper, but I decided to finish high school instead.

Bad cop! No donut!

You're not gonna check the trunk, are you?

Gee, that gut sure doesn't inspire confidence.

Wow, you look just like the guy in the picture on my girlfriend's nightstand.

Is it true that people become troopers because they are too dumb to work at McDonald's?

I pay your salary!

So, uh, you on the take, or what?

Gee, Officer! That's terrific. The last officer only gave me a warning, too!

Do you know why you pulled me over? Okay, just so one of us does.

I was trying to keep up with traffic. Yes, I know there is no other car around--that's how far ahead of me they are.

What do you mean, "Have I been drinking?" You're the trained specialist.

Well, when I reached down to pick up my bag of crack, my gun fell off my lap and got lodged between the brake pedal and the gas pedal, forcing me to speed out of control.

Hey, is that a 9 mm? How's that compare to this one here?

Officer: Your eyes are red, have you been drinking?
Driver: Your eyes are glazed, have you been eating donuts?

Your so-called "speed limits" mean nothing to me flatfoot. I live my life one quarter-mile at a time.

You again? I thought I lost you at that last red light.

Aren't you going to strip search me, big boy?

You better hurry up with that ticket. Dunkin' Donuts closes in 15 minutes.

How about you watch my friend Ben Franklin while I get my registration?

Sorry I was speeding officer, but your daughter said she had to be home by eleven.

Hey Barney! How are things in Mayberry?

Say Hi to your wife and my kids!

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ACURA:
Another Crummy, Useless, Rotten Automobile
Asia's Curse Upon Rural America


AMC:
All Makes Combined
A Major Cost
A Mutated Car
A Morons Car
Another Major Catastrophe
A Man's Car
A Miss Conception
All Muscle Car
All Most Car
Annoying Mechanics Constantly
Automotive Mental Cruelty


AUDI:
Always Unsafe Designs Implemented
Accelerates Under Demonic Influence
Automobile Under Demonic Influence
Another Ugly Deutsche Invention
Always Undermining Deutsche Intelligence
Automobile Unsafe Designs, Inc.
All Unnecessary Devices Installed


BMW:
Big Money Works
Bought My Wife
Brutal Money Waster
Break My Window
Break My Windshield
Babbling Mechanical Wench
Beastly Monstrous Wonder
Beautiful Masterpieces on Wheels
Beautiful Mechanical Wonder
Barely Moving Wreck
Big Money Waste
Big Money. Why?
Big Money Works
Born Moderately Wealthy
Breaks Most Wrenches
Bring Many Wrenches
Brings Me Women
Brings More Women
Broken Money Waster
Broke My Wallet
Broken Monstrous Wonder
Bumbling Mechanical Wretch
Blasphemous Motorized Wreck
Bavarian Manure Wagon


BUICK:
Big Ugly Indestructible Car Killer
Big Ugly Imitation Chrome King


Camaro:
Can A Mechanic Actually Repair One??
Can't America Make A Real One?
Chevrolet Assembled Mustang And Repaired Often
Could Always Manufacture And Recall Often


CHEVROLET:
Can Hear Every Valve Rap On Long Extended Trips
Cheap, Hardly Efficient, Virtually Runs On Luck Every Time
Cracked Heads, Every Valve Rattles, Oil Leaks Every Time
Constantly Having Every Vehicle Recalled Over Lousy Engineering Techniques
Condition Hopeless, Entire Vehicle Relies On Leftover Engine Technology


DODGE:
Drips Oil, Drops Grease Everywhere
Damn Old Dirty Gas Eater
Dead Old Dog Going East
Dead On Day Guarantee Expires
Dead On Delivery, Go Easy
Dead On Delivery, Guarantee Expired
Dead or Dying Garbage Emitter
Dear Old Dads Garage Experiment
Daily Overhauls Do Get Expensive


EDSEL:
Every Day Something Else Leaks
Every Day Some Engineer Laughs

FIAT:
Failure in Italian Automotive Technology
Fix It Again, Tony
Fix It All the Time
Found In A Toilet
Feeble Italian Attempt at Transportation

FORD:
Frigin' Old Rebuilt Dodge
Fix or Repair Daily
Found On Road Dead
Fast Only Rolling Downhill
First On Race Day
First On Recall Day
Fabricated Of Refried Dung
Fails On Rainy Days
Fantastically orgasmic Realistic Dream
Fatally Obese Redneck Driver
Fault Of R&D
Finally Obsolete Racing Device
Fireball On Rear Denting
First On Road to Dump
First On Rust and Deterioration
Fix or Recycle Dilemma
Flipping Over Results in Death
Flipped Over Roadside Disaster
Follow Our Rusty Dogsled
Foot On Road Decelerates
Forced On Reluctant Drivers
Formed Of Rejected DNA
Forwarded Once; Return Denied
Forward Only; Reverse Defective
Forlorn, Old, Ratridden Dustbin
Fork Over Repair Dough
Fouled Out Re-done Dodge
Frequent Overhaul, Rapid Deterioration
Free or Reduced Drastically
Frequent Opinion: Really Disappointed
Fumes and Odors Readily Detectable
Funny Old Rattling Dump
Forget Out Running Dale (Earnhardt or Jarrett)
Features O.J. and Ron`s DNA
Found Out-Right Dangerous
Future Of Racings Delight
(backwards) Driver Returns On Foot
(backwards) Dumb Rednecks Own Fords
LTD:
Lacks Total Dependability
Lots To Do
Looses Transmissions Daily

GEO: Good Engineering Overlooked

GM:
General Maintenance
Great Mistake
Garbage Motors
Generally Miserable
Grossly Misconceived
Gluteus Maximus
Good Money
Goofy's Manufacturing
Gone Mental


GMC:
Grief & Misery Combined
Garage Man's Companion
Gotta Mechanic Coming?
Generally Mediocre Cars
Get More Chicks
Gets Mechanics Crazy
Gods Mechanical Curse
Got More Crap
Great Mountain Climber
Great Motor Car
God Made Chevy
Good Moron Car
Got Mine Cheap
Get My Checkbook
Gone Mad Corp.


GTO:
Gas, Tires, Oil
Get Tools Out
Get To Onramp
Good To Own
Get The Others
Generally Trashed Out
Good Time Out
Gone To Overdrive


HONDA:
Honest Officer, Nobody Drank Anything
Had One Never Did Again
Hang On, Not Done Accelerating
Hallmark Of Non-Descript Automobiles
Hallmark Of Non-Destructable Automobiles
History Of No Dramatic Acceleration
How Odd, No Darn Acceleration?
PRELUDE: Pistons Rattle, Engine Locks Up, Differential Explodes


HYUNDAI: Hope You Understand Nothing's Driveable And Inexpensive...

JEEP:
Just Eats Every Part
Just Empty Every Pocket
Junk Engineering Executed Poorly
Jumps Extremely Excitedly over Potholes
Jinxed Engine has Extra Parts


KIA:
Kick It Around
Kick It Again
Killed In Action


LOTUS: Lots Of Trouble, Usually Serious

MAZDA: Most Always Zipping Dangerously Along

MG:
Money Guzzler
Mostly Garaged
Major Goof
MGB: Might Go Backwards
MGB: Might Go, But . . .
MGB: Motor Going Bad
MGF: Might Go Forward


MIATA: My Intention: Always To Accelerate

MOPAR
Many Odd Parts Arranged Randomly
Miscellaneous Oddball Parts Assembled Ridiculously
Most Often Passed At Races
Mostly Old Parts And Rust
Move Over People Are Racing
Move Over, Plymouth Approaching Rapidly
My Old Pig Ain't Running
My Only Problems Are Repairs
Mechanics Offer Pinto As Replacement
More Often Parts Are Replaced


MUSTANG:
Motor Under Strain, Transmission Almost No Good
Massivly Under Sized Tires And No Go
Maybe Under Serious Thought Another No Go
Maybe Under Serious Thought Another Nice GTO


OLDSMOBILE:
Old Ladies Driving Slowly, Making Others Behind Infuriatingly Late Everyday
Overpriced, Leisurely Driven Sedan Made Of Buick's Irregular Leftover Equipment


PINTO:
Put In Nickel To Operate
Paid Inspector Nicely To Overlook
Put In New Transmission Often
Pushed In Neutral Too Often


PONTIAC:
Plan On Numerous Trips In Another Car
Poor Old Numbskull Thinks Its A Cadillac


PORSCHE:
Proof Of Rich Spoiled Children Having Everything
Pulled Over Regularly So Cops Have Enough


SAAB:
Send Another Automobile Back
Swedish Automobiles Always Breakdown
Sad Attempt At Beauty
Sorry Auto, Always Broken
Shape Appears Ass-Backwards


SUBARU: Screwed Up Beyond All Repair Usually

TOYOTA:
Too Often Yankees Overprice This Auto
Torturous On Your Old Tired Ass
The One You Ought To Avoid


TRIUMPH:
This Really Is Unreliable Man, Please Help!
Tried Repairing It Until My Parts Hurt!


TR: Tools Required

VOLVO: Very Odd Looking Vehicular Object

VW:
Vintage Wreck
Virtually Worthless

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1. Every time they repainted the lines on the road, you'd have to buy a new car.

2. Occasionally your car would just die on the motorway for no reason, accept this, restart and drive on.

3. Occasionally, executing a maneuver would cause your car to stop and fail to restart and you'd have to re-install the engine. For some strange reason, you'd just accept this too.

4. You could only have one person in the car at a time, unless you bought a "Car 95" or a "Car NT". But then you'd have to buy more seats.

5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was twice as reliable, five times as fast, twice as easy to drive - but it would only run on five percent of the roads.

6. The Macintosh car owners would get expensive Microsoft upgrades to their cars which would make their cars go much slower.

7. The oil, engine, gas and alternator warning lights would be replaced with a single "General Car Fault" warning light.

8. People would get excited about the "new" features in Microsoft cars, forgetting completely that they had been available in other cars for many years.

9. We'd all have to switch to Microsoft gas and all auto fluids but the packaging would be supurb.

10. New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt.

11. The airbag system would say "Are you sure?" before going off.

12. If you were involved in a crash, you would have no idea what happened.

13. They wouldn't build their own engines, but form a cartel with their engine suppliers. The latest engine would have 16 cylinders, multi-point fuel injection and 4 turbos, but it would be a side-valve design so you could use Model-T Ford parts on it.

14. There would be an "Engium Pro" with bigger turbos, but it would be slower on most existing roads.

15. Microsoft cars would have a special radio/cassette player which would only be able to listen to Microsoft FM, and play Microsoft Cassettes. Unless of course, you buy the upgrade to use existing stuff.

16. Microsoft would do so well, because even though they don't own any roads, all of the road manufacturers would give away Microsoft cars free, including IBM!

17. If you still ran old versions of car (ie. CarDOS 6.22/CarWIN 3.11), then you would be called old fashioned, but you would be able to drive much faster, and on more roads!

18. If you couldn't afford to buy a new car, then you could just borrow your friends, and then copy it.

19. Whenever you bought a car, you would have to reorganize the ignition for a few days before it worked.

20. You would need to buy an upgrade to run cars on a motorway next to each other.
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Dodge Viper on the semalaya

Chevrolet Corvette Z06

Lamborghini Diablo VT

Ferrari Enzo

Maclaren F1 GT, nice yellow paint.

Nice Ferrari with woman painting her toe nails on the fender...lol

Mercedes Benz Vision - Bad Ass Fast Cool Car

Steeda - Transformer from daily driver to racecar

1955 Buick Special Station wagon

Mercedes Benz SLR McLaren $452,000 - 617 Horsepower, one fast cool car.

Zonda - what a fast cool looking car!
Custom built - 0-60 in 4 seconds - 4.61 Rover V-8

1995 Mclaren F-1

1994 Dodge Viper, V-10, classic American horsepower.

1933 Plymouth, classic American

2006 Chevrolet Corvette ZO6, nice bright yellow

Pagani Zonda rear view, very cool!

Pagani Zonda right front view

MB SL500 Mercedes Benz $$$










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There wasn’t always a class for these “funny-looking” cars. In the mid-1960s, many of drag racing’s fastest drivers were outgrowing the Super Stock and Factory Experimental classes, building cars that stretched and eventually broke the rules. Promoters discovered they could pair up these altered-wheelbase, injected, blown machines in exhibition match races—and the spectators came running. Rivalries were born, the Funny Car class was created, and the cars kept getting faster and faster.

Funny Car Fever is a humorous, heart-felt, first-hand account of the most exciting and memorable years of the Funny Car class. Steve Reyes followed these fiberglass-bodied, nitro-burning machines and their drivers from the years leading into Funny Car class through its halcyon days. He’s included over 400 of his favorite images and more than a few never-before-heard stories to bring the feeling of the class and the era home to you. This is a MUST have photo/history book for any drag racing fan.
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