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WERE SCHEDULED TO PICK UP KEITH AT THE AIRPORT
AROUND THREE AND NOW WE WERE LATE BUT KNOWING HOW THE AIRLINES HAVE BEEN
LATELY , SO WAS HE. WE BOTH GOT THERE AT THE SAME TIME . FROM THERE IT WAS TIME FOR A STEAK AT THE BIG TEXAN THEN ON TO TUCUMCARI , N.M. FOR THE NIGHT . HITTING THE ROAD ABOUT SEVEN WE STOPPED IN SANTA ROSA TO VISIT OUR FRIEND BOZO . HE RUNS THE ROUTE 66 AUTO MUSEUM ALONG WITH A HOT ROD SHOP . WITH AN INVITATION TO STOP FOR A COOKOUT ON THE WAY HOME IT WAS TIME TO HIT THE ROAD WITH ONLY A QUICK STOP PLANNED TO SAY HEY TO JAMIE AND HIS DAD JIM AT THE HOT ROD HAVEN IN ALBUQUERQUE. NOW WHEN WE TRAVEL AND SOMEONE ELSE IS DRIVING ONE OF MY HOT RODS YOU CAN DRIVE THEM AS HARD AND AS FAST AS YOU WANT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BUT THERE IS ONE RULE: EITHER KEEP UP WITH KEITH OR DRIVE SO I CAN SEE YOU IN MY WINDSHIELD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ( REMEMBER I WAS TRAPPED IN THE VAN AT 75 MPH ) WELL THE TWO ENGLISH BLOKES WERE IN MY ROADSTER WITH BRIAN BEHIND THE WHEEL FOR THE FIRST TIME . NEITHER HAD A CELL PHONE OR KNEW WHERE THE HOT ROD HAVEN WAS OR THAT IT WASN’T LISTED IN THE PHONE BOOK AND BRIAN HAD NO CHANCE OF KEEPING UP WITH KEITH . IN SHORT , THEY GOT LOST AND WE HAD NO WAY TO FIND THEM . LUCKILY THEY WERE SMART ENOUGH TO GET TO THE OTHER SIDE OF TOWN AND WAIT UNTIL WE WENT BY .
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AFTER SPENDING THE NIGHT IN LOFLIN NV, WHERE THE BEER IS COLD AND THE ROOMS ARE CHEAP WE CRUISED ON IN TO SAN DIMAS AND THE RED ROOF WHERE WE MET UP WITH JOHN SWANDER AND HIS BROTHER . AFTER 3000 MILES THE BEERS WERE TASTIN’ GREAT WHEN SOME GUY ASKED KEITH IF HE WOULD MOVE HIS CAR SO HE COULD PARK HIS TRUCK NEXT TO HIS TRAILER AND KEITH GRACIOUSLY OBLIGED . FORTUNATELY FOR ALL , KEITH WAS MOVING HIS HOT ROD AND DID NOT HEAR THE GUYS BUTT- PAL SAY "OH , I SEE YOU GOT THE RAT RODDER TO MOVE HIS RAT ROD" AFTER ALL HE DID HAVE A SHINY RED, CHROMED UP, T BUCKET IN HIS BOX AND YOU JUST KNOW HE WOULDN’T WANT KEITH’S NASTY ASS, MEAN AS HELL, BLACK AND DIRTY THREE WINDOW ANYWHERE NEAR HIS SWEET LITTLE T BUCKET!!!!
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LATER THAT NIGHT PETER VINCENT SHOWED UP AND PLANS WERE MADE TO GO TO EL- MIRAGE THE FOLLOWING DAY . FOR SOME GOING TO THE NSRA NATIONALS OR THE GOOD GUYS IS WHAT THIS "THING OF OURS" IS ABOUT . FOR OTHERS IT MAY BE FATHERS DAY OR THE GRAND NATIONAL, BUT FOR US ITS PLACES LIKE EL-MIRAGE AND BONNEVILLE . IT’S RACING ON THE SAME HALLOWED GROUND THAT THOSE WHO WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR HOT RODDING DID AND WITHOUT QUESTION THE HIGHLIGHT OF OUR TRIP WAS SPENDING THE AFTERNOON ON THE DRY, DUSTY , DIRTY , HOT , SCARED GROUND OF EL-MIRAGE WHILE ONE THE WORLDS LEADING HOT ROD / AUTOMOTIVE PHOTOGRAPHERS MADE ART WITH THE CLICK OF A BUTTON . THE FOLLOWING PICTURES DON’T EVEN COME CLOSE TO THE MAGIC OF PETER’S BUT DAN AND BRIAN TRIED TO STAY OUT OF PETER’S WAY AND DID THEIR BEST
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