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We don’t call 911 : Old Hippie’s Gift Shop
We Don’t call 911. Nothing inside is worth your life! You put one of these 3″X5″ stickers on the door of your race trailer, or the door and windows of your home, shop, office, truck, motorhome — and the thieves will move along to steal someone else’s stuff.
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Discounts for 10 and 50 stickers.
So what have you resolved?
Dallas received his trophy in the mail yesterday. Thank you to those who voted for him.
So that event promoters and track announcers can better speak about the drivers and cars running in the Nostalgia Super Stock class, we’ve put together a very nice 2012 Media Guide.
Drivers can go to http://www.nssracing.com/media-guide/ to answer a few simple questions in less than five minutes, and optionally attach a digital photo of their car. Their page is then added to the next build of the 2012 Media Guide.
The media guide is a PDF file (free Adobe Reader, present on most computers is needed to read) that can be printed and handed to the track announcer, or he can have it opened on his computer/tablet. The pages are in Driver Number order, and can quickly give the announcer the proper facts on both car and driver.
We are asking for all drivers to list all NSS cars (this really is easy and can be completed in less than 5 minutes) they might find themselves driving in 2012, and for all event promoters to give the guide to their track announcer.
The guide will be updated at least once a week, as new drivers and cars are submitted. A confirmation will be emailed to you once you submit. Please add your car today.
I just finished reading Rob Wolf's excellent editorial in the most current issue of Mopar Collector's Guide — called "Generation Next", an obvious play on Generation X.
In the editorial, Wolf points out that those of us who experienced the Muscle car Revolution first-hand — were the baby-boomers, and are now between 55-70. The Next'rs are in their mid-to-late thirties and their forties. They saw these cars in the childhood when they were still street driven and at shows. The editorial further points out that there is a crop of these Generation Next people working at dealerships, restoration shops, and racing — but they might be the end of the line, and the last to be able to even work on these cars.
That's very true in large part — but there are exceptions. My son Dallas is 24, has been racing Mopars since he was 16 (when he also obtained his NHRA Class IV License), is the crew Chief for all of the cars we race on a National Circuit — and yesterday won NMCA's 2011 "Crew Member of the Year" award at the Award's Dinner at PRI. The newest car he's ever raced is a 78 Aspen — and the oldest a 63 Plymouth. Steven, the Shop Rat at my shop is 19 and works part-time (25-hours a week) at my shop. He too is a Mopar man, and is capable of doing a engine/transmission swap on a mid-60s Mopar pretty quickly. He works for minimum wage because he is able to work on the old Mopars as much as swinging the mop. He has another part-time job where he pulls engines and transmissions on imports for twice what I pay him — but he rather work on old Mopars with us rather than working full time for his other employer. My youngest daughter is 13, and has been going to races with me since birth. She can tell you the year of any B-body and we're setting up my 10-second Vitamin C (63 Plymouth NSS car) for when she hits 16.
These kids are rare — but they do exist. They can exist in greater numbers if "Generation Next" will take the time to pass the heritage along. It takes a little psychology — and it takes getting to them when they're still young. In the case of Dallas, I took him to every car show and race I ever attended since he could be pushed in a stroller. He learned old Mopars before he could be corrupted but any kids with Imports. Same with motorcycles. I'm a Harley man, and much to his mother's chagrin, I bought him a large touring bike at 15 and took him riding with me until turning him on his own at 18. He learned from me, instead of on a crotch rocket by some punk with his hat on backwards and 300 body piercings. Steven's father is a die-hard Mopar man, and like Dallas, Steven never saw an import parked on the property. My youngest daughter was given her first go-cart at 5, and helped to assemble her 6-speed dune buggy at 8. She started driving on the property at 10.
My generation did a lot to create the Generation Next people, and now it is their duty to pass this along to their kids — and the earlier the better. Take them to car shows and tell them about why these cars are so special. Include them with the washing and working on your cars. Build a project together. I bought Dallas his first car at 15 — a 78 Magnum with a warmed over 360, as he had a special license to drive to and from school. He still has that car. We built his (now — but started as a 12-second) 10-second 72 Demon together when he was 15 — which we still have.
It doesn't have to end with the "Generation Next", if the Generation next will take the time to drag their kids away from the X-Box, and get them into the garage working on cars with them. A father is his son's biggest influence — and he only has a limited time to use that influence. My generation needs to do the same with our grandchildren.
Tonight was the Award’s Dinner for the NMCA at PRI. Below is the Wally awarded to Kurt Neighbor for winning the Points Championship in NSS.
Congrats Kurt.
There were six NSS drivers at the Awards Ceremony:
NSS Driver Dallas Schultz won Crew Member of the year, and Barry Camp won Ambassador of the year. Congrats to them also.
OK — I finally had a few hours to finish the last of the NSS wall calendars I’ll be doing until next October for the 2013 Calendar. The theme on this is smokey burnouts. I used the 13 best burnout photos I had from 2011. The below are some lo-res (so they display faster) examples of the page, but rest assure that the actual pages use high-resolution photos.
http://www.cafepress.com/texasbigbird/8344328
If your NSS car has not yet won the Car of the Month, it needs to have been entered into the staging lanes to be considered in the monthly poll for next month’s Car of the Month. The first 20 cars added to the staging lanes to have not won are included in the monthly poll. The Poll for January 2012 is up — please take a moment to vote for one of the 20 cars to be next months Car of the Month.
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Examples found in the Old Hippie Gift Shop
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