Master Tech car show

My friend and his cherry ’62 Impala SS. (iPhone photo by BobbaLew.)

My fellow widower friend, slightly older than me, purchased a new (for him) car to display at car shows.
It’s a 1962 Chevrolet Impala SS two-door hardtop. Four-barrel 327 SmallBlock with PowerGlide tranny.
He also owns a 2010 Camaro to show.
1962 is the year I graduated high-school.
It ain’t a ’57 Chevy — what is it about ’57 Chevys? Especially when 1957 is the first year Ford outsold Chevrolet in eons.
But a ’62 Chevy was desirable, unlike the ’59, which I consider the worst-looking Chevrolet ever made.
His Impala is mostly stock, although he had Master Tech completely rebuild the front suspension, and switch to disc brakes.
Disc brakes are something I would do, since drum brakes were terrible, and about done in 1962.
A friend had a ’56 Chevy in which he installed a newish 350 SmallBlock. It of course had drum brakes. He beat a 383 RoadRunner, but couldn’t stop afterwards.
Master Tech is a garage that works on street-rods, mainly late ‘60s and early ‘70s muscle-cars.
Every year they put on a show of street-rods, plus anything else that shows up.
I guess it’s to promote their services. I attended last year.
So in I went with my dog on-leash.
Keep the monster from stealing hamburgers and ice-cream cones from little children.
Many of the cars I usually see at car shows were there. The lemon-yellow “Advance-Design” Chevy pickup (’47-’54) SmallBlock four-on-the-floor, the maroon-and-creme ’52 Pontiac sedan-delivery, even that ratty ’56 Caddy back from last year.
Plus many souped Mustangs, old and new, and rumpita-rumpita Camaros. “No peeling out leaving,” a sign said.
Late ‘50s rock was playing.
Rather than bore you with useless verbiage, I’ll post the pictures I took:

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Flatties


This all-aluminum hotrod has a souped FlatHead Ford V8. (iPhone photo by BobbaLew.)


Another souped FlatHead — this in a Model-A pickup. The radiator-surround is classic ’32 Ford. (iPhone photo by BobbaLew.)

(Ford’s FlatHead V8, 1932 through 1953, was the foundation of hot-rodding. Lots of performance parts became available, FlatHeads were cheap, available, and responded well to hot-rodding. Even stock they were sprightly. They could be fiddled by backyard mechanics.)


More-or-less what I wanted all through high-school and college: a ’55 Chevy. Although I preferred the two-door hardtop; this is a two-door sedan = a “Post.” (iPhone photo by BobbaLew.)


I think this is a ’40 Olds. It had a tiny medallion saying “5.7 powered.” Perhaps a 350 SmallBlock? I never found the owner. (iPhone photo by BobbaLew.)


On top of the motor — a Dodge 440 Six-Pak — was the rusty housing of an old Electrolux canister vacuum-cleaner. It contained carb filtration I guess. (iPhone photo by BobbaLew.)


Shark’s teeth! A bone-stock 1949 Buick Sedanette. Even the straight-eight motor. (iPhone photo by BobbaLew.)


Old drag-racer, a ’63 Dodge stationwagon. Next to it is that ratty Cadillac. (iPhone photo by BobbaLew.)


SuperBird, the Winged Warrior Plymouth produced for Richard Petty to race in NASCAR. Dodge debuted its “Daytona,” a Hemi-powered car with similar bodywork, the wing and aero nose. Plymouth and Petty wanted in too. VIOLA; Plymouth’s SuperBird, also Hemi-powered. A Dodge Daytona managed slightly over 200 mph qualifying at Talladega. Cars like this, and the 426 Hemi, were eventually outlawed by NASCAR. Sure, buy groceries with a 200 mph car. (iPhone photo by BobbaLew.)

It seems hot-rodding is dying. Hundreds of cars, but most people attending were oldsters.
Highways are so crowded ya can’t stretch out a car any more. Cars are becoming little more than pillar-to-post. Self driving even.
The youngsters were fiddling their Smartphones. Our president is a late-night Tweeter from his Great White Throne.