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ISSUE 3 2015 Editor's Desk: I SEEN ELVIS! By: Russ Keep Elvis is alive! The King was sighted at last year's Conclave. He was incognito in sunglasses but his cape tipped off his true identity. The King was seen pushing his immaculate, better than new, BJ8 out of its enclosed, air conditioned trailer. Elvis didn't win a trophy because he refused to start up his over-restored BJ8 - "It mighta' caused a lil 'ol oil leak or singed the paint on them exhaust pipes on that doggone Austin Taxi Cab motor." Some people refuse to believe this. They claim Elvis' BJ8 is powered by a Ford 427 Sohc "cammer" and the exhaust roar would have brought unwelcome curiosity to the car and its owner.

Elvis and Ann Margaret in Viva Las Vegas Calling all journalists! I still need stories of your impromptu show-downs with Vipers, ‘Vettes and highway patrol cars as well as heroics in sorority dormitories, pictures and tech pieces. Would anyone like to write a regular feature or even an occasional column or report on upcoming events? Didn’t Hillary say “It takes a village to raise an idiot”? I need your help in raising the Wheelspinner, especially internet help. Join the AHCA now. Thank you....thank you very much. This Issue’s mystery photo!

HINTS: Circa 1959, California drag strip. 55-57 T-Bird hood scoop suggesting possible T- Bird 312 Y block and 3 speed with overdrive transmission. Dig the wild 1950s brain bucket and uncorked fender headers.

Last issue you pondered the identity of No. 73. No one had the right answer in identifying it. This Nasty Boy was created by Donald Healey himself in 1957. He swapped in a Ferrari motor, transmission and rear end, probably out of a Ferrari belonging to Marquis de Portago who wrecked in the 1955 British Grand Prix. The photo on the right side is No. 73, the X224 streamliner, possibly the 1956 record breaker from the Bonneville salt flats, at the 1958 Nassau Speed Week. It was based on a 100s chassis.

TECH TIP Elvis tooling around in his ‘56 or ‘57 T-Bird. You can tell is it not a ‘55, ‘cause of the side vents. Despite yards of insulation, my foot wells are like a convection oven. Try this vent lid, hinge and handle kit from Speedway and build up a pair of side vents. Take photos and send me a story. In 1970 Elvis volunteered his services as a Federal “Agent at large” to President Nixon. At a meeting at the White House, President Nixon conferred on Elvis the status of “Special Assistant” for the Bureau of Narcotics or Dangerous drugs (BNDD) and gave him a badge (I swear I am not making this up!). This, despite a criminal record for racing his Cadillac OHV powered Austin- Healey in Memphis as a teenager. Ten days after Elvis met with President Nixon at the White House in 1970, the King was granted a private tour of FBI Headquarters. The FBI’s extensive file on Elvis recounts that Elvis wished to advise Hoover “that the Beatles laid the ground work for many of the problems we are having with young Jail House Rock Experts in female sexuality confirm that women are people by their filthy unkempt attracted to men like their appearances and suggestive music “Ambition is a dream fathers. This may explain while entertaining in this country with a V8 motor.” Nancy Sinatra’s fascination during the early and middle 1960s.” -Elvis with Elvis. Hoover refused to meet with Presley The King with a Stingray prototype chatting on an early car phone with President Nixon. Note the flip front and rear body work and head fairing. The ‘Vette looks suspiciously like a re- bodied D-Jag. who he described as “wearing of all sorts of exotic dress.” Hoover was particularly well informed on the King’s activities. Recently declassified FBI files reveal the sexual drives of the American youth were aroused beyond normality by Elvis Presley. In a letter to J. Edgar Hoover dated May 16, 1956, for instance, a purported former member of the Army Intelligence Service states that Presley is a “definite danger to the security of the United States” because Elvis’ actions and motions were such as to rouse the sexual passions of teenaged youth. One eye-witness described his actions as ‘sexual self- gratification on stage,’ - another as ‘a strip- tease with clothes on.’ The author further criticizes Elvis’ “motions and gestures, like those of masturbation or riding a microphone,” and adds that “Indications of the harm Presley did ... Were two high school girls (...) Whose abdomen and thigh had Presley’s autograph. ...It is known by psychologists, psychiatrists and priests that teenaged girls from the age of eleven, and Baby, let’s play house! boys in their adolescence are easily aroused to sexual indulgence and perversion by certain types of motions and hysteria, - the type that was exhibited at the Presley show. There is also gossip of the Presley Fan Clubs that degenerate into sex orgies. ...From eye- witness reports about Presley, I would judge that he may possibly be a drug addict and sexual pervert.” Perhaps the real reason for the King’s campaign against The Beatles was that he was sore about their theft of his lyrics from “Baby, Let’s Play House,” a 1955 rockabilly hit (and next to my all time favorite Elvis hit, just behind Jail House Rock). These stolen lyrics appeared in the 1965 Beatles Rubber Soul album in their song ‘Run for Your Life.” Here are the lyrics for Baby, Let’s Play House (written by Arthur Gunter); “Strip tease with clothes on”? The stolen lyrics are “I’d rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man” In a 1973 interview Lennon said Run for Your Life was his “least favorite Beatles song.” He also stated that the song was one of George Harrison’s favorite songs on their Rubber Soul album. Lyric Thieves?

"Baby, Let's Play House" Exotic Dress? Well, baby, Oh, baby, baby, baby, baby baby. Come back, baby, come. Baby, baby baby, b-b-b-b-b-b baby Come back, baby, come. baby, baby. Come back, baby, Baby baby baby I wanna play house with Come back, baby, I wanna play you. house with you.

Well, you may go to college, Yeah. You may go to school. Now listen to me, You may have a pink cadillac, baby But don't you be nobody's fool. Try to understand. I'd rather see you Now baby, dead, little girl, Come back, baby, come. Than to be with Come back, baby, come. another man. Come back, baby, Now baby, I wanna play house with you. Come back, baby, come. Now listen and I'll tell you baby Come back, baby, What I'm talking about. come. Come on back to me, little girl, Come back, baby, I So we can play some house. wanna play house with you. Now baby, Come back, baby, come. Oh, baby baby baby. Come back, baby, come. Baby baby baby b-b- Come back, baby, b-b-b-b baby baby I wanna play house with you. baby. Oh let's play house, baby. Baby baby baby. Come back, baby, I Now this is one thing, baby wanna play house That I want you to know. with you. Come on back and let's play a little house, Riding a And we can act like we did before. microphone? America has had lots of Presidents but only one King. Nancy Sinatra also made use of a re- gendered version (”Little Boy, you know I am a jealous chick!”) in 1966 included in her famous Boots Are Made For Walking (and that's just what they’ll do. One of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you. Are you ready boots? Start walking!) Album. It is not known how The King reacted to this opposite sex plagiarism, perhaps he thought of it as a compliment from Miss Sinatra, who he went on to “play house” with during the movie Speedway in 1968.

Elvis with dyed black hair and Nancy with bleached blonde hair in Speedway.

Nancy Sinatra Album Cover 1968 LETTER TO THE EDITOR Hi Russ,

Many thanks to you, Leroy, and Sue for your never ending efforts for The Nasty Boys! I have been inactive since the late 90's but have been messing around with my Nasty Boy "Pandemonium " on and off since (new injected LS-3 and other stuff, see below).

The Conclave this year sounds like a possibility for me. Do you know how many Nasty Boys are attending and for how long? Which hotel? I live near Pittsburgh and will drive my Healey to Gettysburg for the event.

Again, many thanks and I hope to hear from you. Aluminum Nerf Bar Jack Fussenegger

Thanks, Jack. I’ll print your letter to gauge interest in Conclave. You need some aluminum nerf bars to fill those rear bumper holes. Dog House has them for $46.15 a pair. The stock rubber fits fine. Nice ride. -Russ

TECH CORNER On the right you can see Monroe Meetze submitted this cool solution to access the back spark plugs via the foot boxes on his Nasty Boy.