Well the Nats are history! its all over for another year. The three of us, the Aussie Ute and the two couples in the suburban from Australia took off together heading north. I planned on spending the night in Seymour, IN about 60 miles north of Louisville. About 50 miles out
Reggies transmission in his 34 Ford roadster, decided to konk out! Spewed some fluid, smoked and started to slip. We all pulled over, added some trans fluid....did not help. A young guy and his wife from Northeast Indiana in their pickup with his car on a trailer (a rat rod type, really crude, rusty, etc) pulled over and offered to take his car off the trailer and load Reggies on. We took him up on that in a minute. We decided that it would be best to trailer him into Seymour to the same body shop that had Ralph's car last week. While we were unloading it in the lot, the owner showed up and offered his home garage that was next door. He then gave us a trans shop name and number. I to;e the rest to go on, I was staying here any way, Reggie can hang out with me, I can drive him around, hopefully they can get the trans fixed in a day or two. Reggie then can drive on home to Staples. I am here until noon on Tuesday when Elvis flies into Indy. More bad luck that turns into good luck!
Alan with the 38 Ute from Australia won long distance...beat out a 32 5 window from Sweden and friend Jack from Hawaii.
It was so hot today...101 on the billboard at the fairgrounds. I was not outside much, spent most of the day in the vendor building and of course the awards arena at 3 PM.
I bought extra long battery cables and a grounding strip for the Buick, and a steering column trim for the Deuce Delivery. Got a real cool t shirt and poster from Holley carbs featuring 32 fords...what else!
Hopefully we will get more good luck tomorrow at the trans shop, then it is off to Dearborn for the Deuce Deal.