Thread: Happy Friday Everybody!!!! ---- Whatcha got planned for the weekend?

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40,
This is an example of why it's good to just go out for a nice cruise.

On my after-work cruise in my roadster I was stopped at a stop sign on a street I've been down many times. An older guy, about my age, was crossing the street and when he got to the other side I started to move on. Well he waved me down so I stopped to see if he lost his social security check or what, and he asks me about my car and starts giving me just enough feedback that I'm interested in talking more. Then a car comes and I'm blocking his way and he says "just pull back over there" so I do and it turns out that it's in front of his garage; actually formerly a body shop large enough for maybe 20+ or so cars and we really hit if off and he starts telling me about all his stuff inside and tells me to park and come in, which of course I don't need a second invitation. It turns out he's a great old hot rod guy that I will be visiting often, but the main reason for my post addressing this to you, 40, is that among his other cool old motors, Y blocks, flatties, Olds, Pontiac, hemis, etc., early '50's Mercs and Fords, a '63 Vette body stashed up in the attic, etc., there was a '40 Ford convertible hot rod...get this...it was a chopped convertible, all as originally done back in the '50's and never changed or restored, just sitting there collecting my drool. I'm pretty sure he told me this '40 chopped convertible hot rod, or maybe just the original builder, was featured in one of the Rodder's Journals, so I will get some photos and a follow up story as I visit my new friend much more often. He also showed me photo albums and stories about other very cool cars that I can hardly even put into words. I told him my next desire was to build a pre-1940's race car to compete in the antique/vintage car road racing venues and he and I are soul brothers on that concept.