Got
this hot picture of Howie and Jean Langer's '31 A-Bone, which he says
he's driven daily in the Phoenix area since 1993. What makes the
Langer hot rod especially interesting is that Howie works as a
mechanic for Southwest Airlines. Now, it's very interesting to note
that my wife and I use SWA for all our domestic trips. I wuz just
thinkin' how secure I feel when I'm in that seat, knowin' some hot
rodder worked on the jet engine outside my window.
Whenever we go to the Japan car show for Mooneyes, we use Japan Airlines. That show happens in May and December. We (Ilene and me) are always gettin' invited to dinner by the Mooneyes guys 'cause they know I freak out on sushi and so that's the picture of Ilene and me at a sushi bar called "Sushi Boy" which has the tiny little model railroad track running around the entire restaurant area and we simply take what looks good and scarf it down. Sushi is raw fish wrapped in rice and at the end of the meal, this little waitress comes and counts the plates and takes 5 bucks for every plate she counts. Use to be that I was the only westerner at the shows, but in the last few years quite a group of us leaves from Los Angeles.
In the other photo, you can see Larry Henley (at my right) holding one of his wild Rat Fink sculpts which he took over and, I might add, that the Japanese pinstripers were very interested in his style of sculpting figures out of wax. He had a Rat Fink pewter figure about 3 inches tall and Rat Fink in the "Little Jewel" show car I had in the '50's. See Larry's website at: http://www.ratfink.org/speedo.
I want to mention a neat place to stop on your vacation. It's Darryl Starbird's Hot Rod and Custom Museum in Afton, OK. Darryl's been around since the early days of Hot Rodding, and one of the more interesting displays he has in the Museum is a replica of his '50's shop in Wichita, KS, where his bubble-topped "Predicta" and Dave Stuckey's chopped Ford sedan were conceived. Inside the Museum, Darryl and Donna have assembled the most complete selection of leadsleds, customs and hot rods ini the country. Plan to spend the day--it's Awesome!
By the way--I lost one of my tophats. Does anyone out there work at a hat factory where they make top hats like the Penguin wore in the batman picture?
Check out the model-trainload of sushi (left)
goin' past Ilene and me at "Sushi Boy."
Larry Henley's in the middle (mi right) with
one of his wild Rat Fink pewter sulpts!
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