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House of Roberts

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27. I remember that unique exhibition machine from Hot Rod magazine years ago.

Thu Aug 14, 2025, 01:51 PM

Aug 2025

He could steer it down the track with individual handbrakes on each rear wheel. Just a gentle tug on one would straighten out if it started to drift off course.
I just watched an American Pickers where Frank bought one of those trucks that had been chopped and lowered, and they showed a picture of that very truck in the video.

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OMG WHEELIES! TRIGGER ALERT! [View all] orangecrush Aug 2025 OP

"...one of whom was doing a wheelie." yardwork Aug 2025 #1

I sense underlying jealousy in his tweet orangecrush Aug 2025 #2

Can't you just see him?! yardwork Aug 2025 #5

I think Chamberlain orangecrush Aug 2025 #8

Uppity! That's it! yardwork Aug 2025 #10

America is over orangecrush Aug 2025 #12

It's a worse threat than marijuana!!!! yardwork Aug 2025 #15

Marijuana laws orangecrush Aug 2025 #19

Yes, and we're watching in real time how that worked. yardwork Aug 2025 #21

OH NOES! Kids being.... Bettie Aug 2025 #3

Is doing 150 on a two lane highway orangecrush Aug 2025 #13

The post said ATVs Bettie Aug 2025 #18

Um orangecrush Aug 2025 #20

OK....I misunderstood the tone of your reply Bettie Aug 2025 #24

You and I are about the same age. yardwork Aug 2025 #25

Wheelies in drag racing are about as useless as House of Roberts Aug 2025 #4

They're not drag racing. yardwork Aug 2025 #6

I was not referring to the kids on ATVs, House of Roberts Aug 2025 #28

Yes, but the fans love it orangecrush Aug 2025 #9

I remember that unique exhibition machine from Hot Rod magazine years ago. House of Roberts Aug 2025 #27

I'd love to have one orangecrush Aug 2025 #29

That Cutlass Greg_In_SF Aug 2025 #7

Love me some wheelies orangecrush Aug 2025 #11

Kids used to do wheelies on their bikes when I was young. GoCubsGo Aug 2025 #14

In my neighborhood orangecrush Aug 2025 #16

And sassing their elders. yardwork Aug 2025 #17

Not to mention the BB guns! orangecrush Aug 2025 #22

Hey kid you're gonna put your eye out! yardwork Aug 2025 #23

Masked black youth gangs terrorize countryside orangecrush Aug 2025 #26