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Old 03-22-2012, 10:01 AM   #1
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Holey shit , working on distributors this morning and in the door walked Ed Iskenderian !!!
WOW what stories thsi guy has . 90 1/2 years old still grinning and telling stories. Made our day for sure...
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Old 03-22-2012, 10:03 AM   #2
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Wow! Indeed! Not everyday a legend walks through the door.

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Old 03-22-2012, 10:11 AM   #3
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Several years ago at the LARS on Sunday afternoon I was loading my display for the long trip back to Nebraska and when I came out of the trailer Ed was sitting in one of my chairs. I stopped what I was doing and we had a half hour conversation about my FH products and the state of rodding in general. What a treat and what a nice man.
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Old 03-22-2012, 10:12 AM   #4
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Did he say what he was doing so far from home? I assume he is still living in Cal.
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Old 03-22-2012, 11:31 AM   #5
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The Camfather is in the house!

Did he take a left on his way to work?
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Old 03-22-2012, 11:42 AM   #6
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Old 03-22-2012, 12:24 PM   #7
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That visit says it all about Bubbas !
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Old 03-22-2012, 12:25 PM   #8
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Did he say what he was doing so far from home? I assume he is still living in Cal.
Hes in town for the Hot Rod Restoration show tomorrow and sat. Hes is to be awarded the Robert E. Peterson Lifetime Achievement award tomorrow morning .
He still lives in Calif...
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Old 03-22-2012, 12:37 PM   #9
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It's now "official"! Bubba has arrived. Couldn't have happened to a better person.
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Old 03-22-2012, 02:09 PM   #10
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You lucky dog. I'd like to meet him some day and ask him how and why he numbered his cams the way he did? just for fun. I have his autograph a friend got it for me when he was in Ca.
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Old 03-22-2012, 02:14 PM   #11
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I bought a RR-2 cam and lifer Kit from him in 1961 for my 301 Chevy engine. The price was $269.00 for the cam, roller lifters, short push rods, valve springs, and ultra rev kit, in cluding shipping. If he is 90 1/2 years old now in 1961 he would have been 39.5 and I was 19 years old. Time sure passes by and so do the prices!!!

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In 1961 I was working as a mailboy at Westinghouse. I made $65.00 a week and brought home $41.10 a week, so that $269.00 didn't come easy.

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Wow! That would have been amazing! Very cool Jim!
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Old 03-22-2012, 02:18 PM   #13
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One of the early heros of rodding for sure...he is an extraorinarily recognizable person. I think I would recognize him immediately from even the oldest pictures I have seen in ancient Honk magazines that are 60 years old.
I hope he drives the Model T to that event!
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Old 03-22-2012, 03:32 PM   #14
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You lucky dog. I'd like to meet him some day and ask him how and why he numbered his cams the way he did? just for fun. I have his autograph a friend got it for me when he was in Ca.

I told him it took two days to install the double Isky valve springs in our Bonneville motor. He laughed at that...
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Old 03-22-2012, 07:01 PM   #15
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Old 03-22-2012, 07:10 PM   #16
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Thank you for posting Isky's visit and picture. Us old timers don't feel as old when we still see the Hot Rod heros from the '50s & 60's hanging around.
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Old 03-22-2012, 07:13 PM   #17
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Cool!!!
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Old 03-23-2012, 08:15 AM   #18
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Wow, really, really cool. Thanks for posting.
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Old 03-23-2012, 10:37 AM   #19
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Bubba
Make some new stickers.
"Approved for use with all Iskenderian speed products."
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Old 03-23-2012, 11:35 AM   #20
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Great story and pic...Hemmings ran a short story with photo this week in their blog...

http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2...nd/?refer=news

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