Is this the end of The Depot Bar & Lounge? Thats what Dennis says! I'm goin to investigate. This might be a 3 pitcher project. I dunno.

dennis missed his 16v. i miss my Corrado(sometimes)

Alpine White 1990 Volkswagen Corrado.

No Sunroof, Red-Dot gut.

Have a seat.

ABA block with .030 over Wiseco slugs.

Stage 2 BBM supercharger with a 18lb pulley. (thats a wicked lot of boost)

BBM Howitzer intake, ported and polished w/ RSR outlet.

Eurosport Intercooler pipes.

Audi intercooler

Samco Hoses

Neuspeed 260 Cam, w/ Neuspeed Chip

Techtonics Adjustable cam gear (set to 3degrees advance)

Porsche Fuel Injectors and FPR.

Ported & Polished Intake Manifold

Brospeed Header

Techtonics Full Exhaust (no cat)

Zimmerman Drilled, Slotted billet rotors w/ EBC Pads

Neuspeed strut tie bar

Bilstein HD shocks w/ Neuspeed Race Only springs

3 piece BBS (style) wheels w/ Michellin 17" rubbers.

NO swaybar, urethane bushings everwhere.

Clutch-Masters HD pressure plate & disc (VR6 setup)

Diesel Geek 02A Short shifter

Modded VR6 SLC grille

(real) FK Euro Taillights

Infinty Perfect Component Speakers

Alpine Deck

Basically, i have always been a VW nerd. I threw good money after bad building that motor for it. At that point I had thousands into a fucking Corrado.

I blew the living shit out of 3 G-Chargers. They were not meant to spin at the speeds needed for 16-18lbs of boost. The pulley i ran was like half the size of stock. Anyway, I got the fuck out of that car after charger number 3 went. I traded it with some kid in Brooklyn (BRK son!) for a garbage can of a 97 Pissat. I almost never got another VW again after that damn Corrado.

Point is, i'm still a closet VW nerd. Im glad dennis threw that pic of his GTi up. Reminds me of where we all started out.

so i can at least post something

found this a few days ago on flickr. The 1954 Chevy caught my eye. I'd guess thats a 1957 Dodge a couple cars over. No idea whats inbetween.

Anyway, the real gem in this pic is the Braga Bridge, under construction. Crazy.

Now for some perspective, the building that says Lamport is still there, its the brick mill you can see just before the 195 on-ramp on 79 south. Although now, the giant rusty green elevated highway block most of it. i looked today, the words are still on it, just painted over. And the SMoke stack towards the middle of the pic is what is today, Work Out World.

Obviously, 79 isnt even made yet. I would guess this photo to be from like 61 or maybe 62. The bridge wasnt done until 66. And, the Guvernment Center wasnt there because they didnt finish it until 1976.

If i were to venture a guess, i'd say this photo was taken around the Herald News Building or maybe where Denny's used to be on Milliken Blvd.

Either way, this is the raddest picture i have ever seen. It has it all, old cars, and Fall River landmarks.

And im sure once the weather breaks, ill get back to posting ugly bikes and not gay nerdy pictures of a city i wasnt even born in.

Winterport Dragway 2011

June 18 Saturday (Rain Date June 25)
Jimmy Jordan Memorial Car Show, Drag Race & Swap Meet
Camp-out Weekend # 1
Gamblers Race Points Series Race # 2
Gassah Guys Nostalgia Reunion (Flag Start)
Hot Rod Lawn Mower Shoot-out
ATV/Quad Challenge
Bike/Sled Shoot-out & Quick 8
Pontiac Day

July 9 Saturday (Rain Date July 23)
Camp-out Weekend # 2
Gamblers Race Points Series Race # 3
Gassah Guys Nostalgia Reunion (Flag Start)
Hot Rod Lawn Mower Shoot-out
Bike/Sled Shoot-out & Quick 8
ATV/Quad Challenge
Swap Meet

August 6 Saturday
Camp-out Weekend #3
Gamblers Race Points Series Race # 4
Hot Rod Lawn Mower Shoot-out
ATV/Quad Challenge
Bike/Sled Shoot-out & Quick 8
Chevy Day

September 10 Saturday (Rain Date Sept 17)
Camp-out Weekend # 4
Gamblers Race Points Series Race # 5
Gassah Guys Nostalgia Reunion (Flag Start)
Swap Meet
Hot Rod Lawn Mower Shoot-out
Bike/Sled Shoot-out & Quick 8
ATV/Quad Challenge

October 8 Sat. (Rain Date Oct 15)
Fall Car Show, Drag Race & Swap Meet
Camp-out Weekend #5
Gassah Guys Nostalgia Reunion (Flag Start)
Gamblers Race Points Series Race # 6
Bike/Sled Shoot-out & Quick 8
Hot Rod Lawn Mower Shoot-out
ATV/Quad Challenge

HELLO?

i miss my old 16v

Jan 29-30

The Butcher Shop will be bringing our most recent build to the Northeast Motorcycle Expo at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston, MA. Jan 29-30. I've been told Jill, from the pic above, will be joining us. So come out and vote dammit! See you there.

Dennis got more ink

Ryan at Atomic Ink in Swansea, MA just did Dennis' thumbs. Now i feel i must get multiple HF tatts also.

im sick of looking at oj

Orenthal James Simpson

I put this up on my FB and of the HF blog, but damn, what an awesome pic!

Career stats:

61 TD's Rushing

11,236 yds Rushing

4.7 yds/carry

Heisman Trophy

6 Pro-Bowls

1st Ballot Hall of Fame Inductee

2 Murders

And i "cut this" from the "head" of the list, but he was in Roots AND was Nordberg in The Naked Gun series. He is now serving 33yrs for kidnapping/armed robbery.

I've been into vintage drag racing pics lately, although i been leaning more towards middle/late 50's this photo just screamed for me to post it as many places as possible.

When he drove this thing, he KILLED the 60ft times at the track!

Go Juice!

First Ride of the Year

me lou and pierre went for the first ride of the season tonight over to the social club in westport for a few beers. roads were a little wet and the air was cool, but it felt good to be on two weels again.

something different...using your Nerd Box

So i been goin crazy today. For years now, you couldve download programs called Emulators. They are just simple little programs that act like videogame systems. Think of them like the hardware inside your Atari. Then you can downolad ROMS, which are the programming of the game tape. Add a cheap ass walmart USB video game contoller, and BAM! You got all the video games you couldnt afford as a kid. Cheap, and easy.

First pick up one of these...

It's made for the computer, and has a USB plug. At gamestop they're like $10. Probably have them at walmart, Best Buy whatever. I was patient and waited til there was an unopened brand new one at savers for $5. It's like a ps2 style, but all the emulators let you programm which buttons do which. NES only needs two, so i got mad extras.

Once you got the sticks, you need the System. So decide which one you want. Pretend you 10 again and your moms gave you infinite money. Tonight, i been reppin the NES so we'll go with that one. There are tons of emulators out there that all work the same, but this is the one i use. It's called Nestopia. You can download it for free here...

http://www.emulator-zone.com/doc.php/nes/nestopia.html

Once thats unloaded, make a folder on the NerdBox where you'll keep all this shit. Unzip it, your good to go. Now you need games. I got Tyson's Punch Out, Excitebike, RC Pro Am, Blades of Steel, TecmoBowl, Mario Bros, Zelda, it goes on and on. They're free, so the limits are your imagination. The "tapes" are called ROMS. I get them from this site, they got all the "real" ones, no bogus rip-off Mario shit here...

http://www.doperoms.com

Download them and put them in the same folder as the emulator.

Start up Nestopia or whatever you use, set up you sticks, open the ROM you want and thats it, your in business.

Seriously, this is the best $5 on that contorller i ever spent. Stressful bullshit days melt away when your scoring 70yd TD's with Walter Payton or getting first place on track5 of Excitebike!

That emulator zone site has all the other systems too, and the doperoms has the games coverd. Quick not, to keep things simple, stick with original game systems. Gaystion and Xbox and the newer ones are more complicated to fuck with. And really, when you can have the Super NES, NES Genesis and the 2600, all in one day, who cares about the new shit!

PS...

The Emulators really dont have instructions, so you ave to fuck with them a bit to get them going at first, there is tons of shit out there to read online. And when your going for the tapes, try to download ones that have an (E) in the title. They'll be more likely to be in english.

GOOD LUCK

Blizzard of oh-10

Dennis called me this morning to let me know that he was going to Choppahead this afternoon to help Truth put together the rocker boxes on his Shovelhead. I figured a road trip was a great way to celebrate the "Blizzard of oh-10". Off i went, there was probably a half inc of snow in THE PLOWED lanes of the freeway. Of course, I was going about 65 mph when i snapped this pic.

I grabbed some shots as soon as I got to Choppahead in one piece.
Here's the RatFink taillight lense on Truth's bike, "Sex-Panzer".

A touch of class, heres the topper for the sissy-bar.

Evidently, someone Truth knows did the engraving on these rocker boxes. I was told this was his first try at doing it. A little hard to saee in these photos are the tops carved with "H.F. - O.G."

Classy. The faces of them read "Anti - Social"
And so, at the end of the day, I headed back to CJ's, aka, Headquarters, and fired up the stove while enjoying a pack of smokes and about a half dozen Busch Beers.

even more H.F. ink

Ryan's face by Steve

Dusty's

Christian's done by Jim