My first hot car
Thursday, January 31st, 2008One thing that really increased east central Iowa tourism was when the car show came to the Quad Cities. Iowans have always had a love of cars and that showed through when the show came to town. There were lots of memories in the hot rod and antiques section of the show, and there was a lot of lust in the new car section. Back in the days of my youth I remember being under the hood for hours adding that one special thing that would give me just a little more power. I had the heads shaved .30 and bought special gaskets to install them with. I was only shade tree, so most of that was done by a friend who had a shop. I did buy a converter plate so I could put a four barrel carburetor on my two barrel manifold. I cut the Y pipe and made it into dual exhaust with road runner mufflers. The cops didn’t like it, but I though it sounded boss! Then I put the wide tires on back, they were to give more traction, that one didn’t work so well as it snowed the week after I put them on and I had to walk home because the tires just floated on top of snow.

