The Scavengers come to visit

Sunday the Scavengers Car Club from the cities came to St Cloud for a garage tour that I arranged. About 10 AM we all met at the Copper Lantern. There was around 20 cars from the club.
The first stop was at Mikes "toy Museum". They all enjoyed the many die cast, hot wheels, pedal cars and of course all of the St Cloud advertising things in the antique replica gas station.

Stop #2 was Terry's Rod Shop. There the group enjoyed the collection of red Chevys, the orange hot rod bus and spacious shop with the new chassis for the 35 Chevy.

The next stop was at Lumpy's place, the Divco beer truck was a big hit as well as the other rods and the cool collection of toys in the house garage turned into a car party room.

The last stop was at my place. The group were fed pulled pork sandwiches and other goodies in the newly decorated house garage and then toured the new "Deuce Garage.
Except for the short rain shower the day was a lot of fun. I think everyone enjoyed it.

Looking forward to summer 2012

I am having "trip withdrawals" already. There are no more trips planned this year. I have been thinking about and planning the summer of 2012. The stars are all aligning with the moon or something because the show schedule seems to be working with the calendar for 2012.
The way I see it, I could leave about June 4th and head for Loveland, CO for the Goodguys Colorado Nationals being held on June 8th and 9th.
Monday morning it would be off for the LA Roadster show in Pomona CA on Fathers Day June 16-17.
Sunday after the show it will be going east to Vegas for the night and onto St Paul, MN for the Back to The Fifties.
After three days at home its off to Des Moines for the Goodguys show then onto Columbus Nationals on the official cruise.
I would be home for a week or so and then to Salina, KS to the Leadsled Spactacular the last week end of July. Driving the 50 Buick custom for this trip
That pretty much takes care of June and July don't you think?

Iowa and Hastings MSRA

7AM we met Zannoths and headed south towards Kimball. There we picked up the Dicks in their 35 sedan. We stopped for breakfast in New Ulm. Just missed a deer on the highway, too close for comfort for me!
We arrived in Algona, IA about noon. Found Randy and Vicky's B&B, wow wnat a nice p;lace. Huge house built in 1913 or so, 25 rooms, all reubuilt by Randy in 9 short years.
They got their Lincoln Zephyr out of the garage and we all headed about 30 miles to take a tour of the Winnebago factory. That was very interesting. On the way home we found a neat antique store in an old barn. I think we all found something there to buy.
Saturday morning the gals went shopping and us guys went to see Randy's shop about 10 miles away. The next stop was a tree grove to check out an old bus that Randy had heard about. It was a 32 Dodge weged between two trees. He will need a chainsaw and a tractor to get it out!
About 2 PM we headed for Northifield, MN to our hotel and then onto Hastings for a cruise night. There was close to 1000 cars. One of the most impressive was a Peterbuilt V12 truck, all chrome or polished aluminum...pretty cool.
Sunday we had special parking by the newly relocated Porkys drive in. There were around a 1000 cars there. So many people that they ran out of food.
About 3 us and the Nystroms headed north to home. It was a 630 mile weekend. The car ran fine, we all had a good time.