Redneck Engineering Choppers Reps Ride

Redneck Choppers, you probably have heard of them or a minimum of seen one of those choppers at a show.  They are a complete known for their cheap costs, duct-tape engineering and a brand with a lot of humor! This Chopper is owned by Mike Marquart of South Dakota as Reps Ride and is constructed using Redneck Engineering’s GettinHigh frame.
The famous or not therefore Famous GettinHigh Chopper from Redneck Engineering. THis GettinHigh frames are well-liked frames for the past few years currently, they're affordable, durable and most importantly they look bad as hell!

Reps Ride is constructed on a Standard Gettinhigh Frame with a 48 degree Rake, eight? up and 5? out stretch. The Front Finish may be a Redneck Mid Duece (not sure if that is a mistake or intentional) Front end with ten over. The Handle Bars are Redneck Billy handle bars.
Reps Ride encompasses a Redneck King gas tank, and a custom built Redneck fender on the rear. This is sitting on a Weld Smoothie 18?8.5 rear wheel with a 250 tire and a CCI/West Coast a pair of?a pair of.5 front wheel. The wheels have HHI 4 front and rear brakes for stopping power.

All of this hardware is powered by a one hundred Revtec motor with a Andrews EV38 Cam and for delivery Mikuni HSR 42 Carb. The power is connected to a Revtec half dozen speed transmission with a BDL 3 inch primary. The exhaust may be a Grumpys One Off.
The Flame and Silver Paint is finished by Billy Hudson.

Mike’s Reps Ride is just a classic trying chopper, it really demonstrates what can be done with the Redneck Engineering Frame. Its High, its long and its overall a great looker!

Phony Pony Mustang Funny Car

The Phony Pony Funny Ford Mustang was each a true funny car and a true “phony” automotive! The car was engineered by drag racer Junior Brogdon back within the late 1960?s.  It was a Ford and was primarily based off of the Mustang, hence the “pony” in its name. Bordgon engineered the car to induce into funny automotive racing when he had great success racing Super Stock within the AHRA. However when he built Phony Pony the automobile ended up being funny in an exceedingly different way. A completely different approach than simply being a haul car with an altered wheel primarily based and a flip high. It had been funny because it absolutely was additional like a dragster with a automobile body on prime of it!

The Phony Pony was a slingshot dragster with a Mustang body on top of it (currently you recognize why it’s phony) with it Brogdon would run a few totally different set ups, the most common founded was 2 Ford 289 HIPO motors. The 289s would sometimes be carbureted alternative times each would Injected. Other set ups he would run would just be one injected 289, a single blown 289 or just one 289.

When the Phony Pony debuted the NHRA would not consider it a real funny automobile thus Brodgon continuously had to run it at Match races only. Even at Match Races most of the fans and spectators didn’t want to determine it, they weren’t huge fans of the faux funny cars and didn’t need to work out a dragster with a car body. (Weird because I think its cool as hell!)

The best time Phony Pony ever ran was eight.thirty six seconds @ one hundred sixty five.

Drag Boat Racing

All folks here love hot rods, we tend to see them cruising down the streets of Modesto, drag racing on the back roads of America, tearing up the drag strips of Southern California, hitting the oval tracks, and crowding the parking lots of the native Mel’s. Currently a place were you usually don’t see hot rods or a minimum of an area you wouldn’t assume you'd see a hot rod is on the water! That is right there are a bunch guys who build hot rods to on the water known as drag boats!

Drag Boats started method back in the 1500s when Christoper Columbus raced the Mayflower against the Argo and set the then record for the lowest ET.

Seriously now drag boat racing started not too long after drag racing on land did. It possibly started when one guy claimed his boat was faster than his friends boat. The next issue you know they were drag racing their boats on the lake! By the 1960s Drag Boat racing grew and drag boats became their own type of boat. Most of them run the same motors as their pavement cousins, but use their own boat styles and that they their own launching and staging formats similar yet different from their land cousins!

How drag boats are run is very kind of like that of the land lovers, 2 boats are paired to race, they line up, when the sunshine turns green on the tree they go! (Yeah they have floating trees for drag boat racing). Their are some differences though , due to the very fact they have to race on water.

Drag Boats use a moving start after they race. This beginning system was implemented as a security precaution as a result of it is tough for a ship driver to see if the boat can launch straight from a standing begin because of there being a scarcity of traction on water.

As 2 boats are paired up with the drivers holding on the rope, a countdown clock begins before the boats get the green light-weight to go. During competition, if either boat crosses the beginning line before the inexperienced light is illuminated, it is disqualified. When the light turns inexperienced both drivers quickly abandoning of the rope, shut the cockpit door and hit the throttle to launch!

When the boats launch (particularly when the Prime Fuel and Prime Alcohol classes launch) walls of water get shot up over 30ft within the air and also the boats themselves literally get airborne for some seconds! Then the boats Jump forward into the air before landing to complete the race!

Another issue regarding drag boats is like the cars they come in all completely different shapes and sizes. You have everything from speed boats with little block motors to flatbottom boats with Hemis, and to even hydroplane boats running High Fuel Keith Black motors!

Categories in Drag Boat racing vary from personal watercraft (jet skis, little boats) to outboard motor boats, to eleven.0zero Second flat bottom boats, to Professional Mods on water (just about anything goes) to High Alcohol Flat Bottom and High Fuel Hydro boats that run nearly as quick as there land cousins. High Fuel Drag Boats will finish the liquid quarter mile in 4.five seconds!

The Lucas Oil Drag Boat series is the most important Sanctioning Body for drag boat racing, other sanctioning bodies embody the IHBA (International Hot Boat Association) and the SDBA (Southern Drag Boat Association).

What makes drag boat racing exciting? Well there are a number of totally different reasons it is exciting, the loud sound of the motors, the laborious launches that send walls of water thirty feet into the air, the quickness of the boats and a lot of.

Thus what are you looking ahead to land lovers? You recognize what drag boat racing is currently get your hot rod out there to the nearest lake and race!

Mike Ness' 54 Chevy

This fifty four Chevy is that I need to take for a cruise up the coast and then on to Highway 101! It is owned by the original Sick Boy himself Mike Ness! For my readers that will not understand Mike Ness is the lead singer and guitarist of the Punk/Rock N Roll band Social Distortion!  A band that has long had an outlaw, rock n roll sound.  You'll describe their sound as Johnny Cash meets the Clash with a hint of the Rolling Stones and a little bit of Dillinger (yes the 1930s Bank Robber) and Mike Ness and Social Distortion’s outlaw image has perpetually gone hand in hand with Hot Rods and customs!
Mike Ness’ fifty four Chevy was designed by Cole Foster and the Salinas Boys. Mike Ness  would conjointly stop by and facilitate work on the automotive himself while it had been in the Salinas Boys look.
“Ness slept at my search, for weeks at a time, we tortured him Bob Seger , created him do the worst BS, he got dirty, cut, and was one in all the blokes, bought lunch, and he has a smart eye and a way of humor. He has been a good friend for a very long time.”- Cole Foster
The fifty four Chevy top is chopped four inches, the rear glass and window is from a 1950 Plymouth coupe, and also the hubcaps are from a 1951 Desoto. The interior has custom leopard print upholstery and Ness’ fifty four Chevy is powered by a Small Block Chevy that is connected to TH350 transmission.
Mike Ness had the 54 Chevy engineered for nights when he gets those cold feelings and he simply needs to cruise or when he has the Machine Gun blues and desires to cross the state line to flee the police. (If he gets caught, its too the outskirts of town by the railroad tracks, where the country moon shines).

Bruce Larson's Mr. Clean Chevy

Have you ever checked out a hot rod and thought “now that is what a hot rod is suppose to seem like!”? I grasp I have and the foremost recent time I even have is after I saw for Funny Automotive champion Bruce Larson’s Mr. Clean 32 Chevy Olds powered coupe!
Bruce Larson’s Mr. Clean thirty two Chevy may be a recreation of Bruce’s initial true drag automobile! Actually the initial Mr. Clean Chevy that Bruce raced back within the 60s his first automobile that he built for drag strip use solely. He use to tow the automotive to the track with his daily driver and he would compete within the Gasser (yes this Chevy is a gasser) A/Gas category at the strips in New Jersey and New York.
Mr. Clean may be a 32 Chevy coupe with a Ford grill, it's powered by a 1957 Olds J-2 Rocket motor (Olds 371) connected to a Hydro-Matic transmission. The automotive was built by EJ Kowalski from Reading Pennsylvania.
Bruce has raced the automobile for the past few years at many events such as the Funny Automobile Reunion @ Englishtown New Jersey, and at the Nostalgia Nationals.

For those that don’t know Bruce Larson has been a life long drag racer and one the NHRA Funny Automobile National Championship in 1989.