my name's Jim McCrady man this is actually my 5th time
coming out here to beach bend hot rod reunion I like to come out here because
there's a wide range of
cars, trucks, customs, low riders
it's just really fun to look and then you get to meet the people that
that builds their cars it's really fun experience meet a lot of
people and then you get to keep in touch with these people
it's pretty neat I plan for this event I take time off from work
because we get the campout and
you not only get to look at cars and stuff but buddies hang out play cornhole
card games even and while we're here camping out
were surrounded by hot rods and street rods so while we're
doing our activities we're like oh wait a minute look at that when you're camping out here you
get the full feel of it you get to smell the fumes from the gas, you can smell the rubber
you can smell the rubber
you can actually feel some of the dragsters when they pound down the track you can actually feel it
sitting right here where as if you're at a motel room
you'r sitting there wondering man I wonder what's going on at the campgrounds
because when it closes up there it gets wild back here you know this is where it's at
this here is a 1941
Ford sedan 2 door it's got S10 chassis under it so I've got disc brakes
it's got a small block Chevrolet
stroker motor a 385 which is a 40 over
it's got all eagle crank, eagle rods
got a gear drive high volume water pump, a Weiand blower
Holley 4 barrel double pumper it's got
MSD coil ignition and the
I built this car to actually drive so you can see the thickness of the radiator
it's a custom built radiator I've got 2 transmission coolers keep the
transmission cool also added a oil cooler
so my oil is actually getting air cooled as I drive before circulates back in there
so I could actually drive this thing all around just like a
little gas saving car I've had this car for almost five years
that's the third engine i've had in this car i was just trying to get
get where I wanted I had a little dinky engine in it
it's a really big car and I like to turn a little tire ever once and a while so
this is what I finally ended up with I'm happy with this
I would pass through this little town called Aberdeen
in Butler County Kentucky and
I'd passed by this old place and I noticed there was lots of just stuff around like
old cars old lumber and all kinds of old stuff I like to look at and I'd see
a little bit of this fender kinda sticking out some weeds
and I noticed he sold fresh eggs so I used that as an excuse to stop so I could see
what this car was and so I stopped to buy some fresh eggs
and little old man come out little bitty old guy
and I bought some eggs off of him and I asked what that was over in the weeds
and he took me over and we stomped some weeds down
and the more he stomped down the more of this car I saw and the more I saw
the more i wanted this car so I was like is this thing for sale
and he was like nah he wanted to fix it up
so I offered him an amount of cash and he's like
nah I better not so time goes by I saved up more money
and I stop again and offer him a larger amount and he's like ah son I don't know
I've had that car for a while and I want to keep it
I'm like well I'm out to buy a hot rod today I want a hot rod
and i'm gonna buy one and I started to leave and he's like well son come back in here and sit down
so I bought the car and left with some more fresh eggs too
the way that I designed this car the way it looks it's like
when I'm behind this wheel and
the engine it's like I hear this song
I think it's Alice Cooper when I'm riding I feel like this song kicks on it's like
no more
mister nice guy
my oldest son his name's Carter he six-years-old
he's named after a Carter carburetor and then the
our next is four years old his name is Stone Wall
and then we have one on the way and we won't know what it is until it comes
I work at Holley carburetor I work in them machining Department and it's really fun
because all day I get to build stuff that I have an interest in and then when i'm
looking at magazines or watching TV i'm like I bet I've touched that
or I bet I machined that or I know what that is
it's pretty cool
I don't want to be sitting in a little Honda thinking i'm in a hot rod I want to be in this
you know I want to be in this I don't want to be in the little Honda
so yeah