Monday

We woke up to clouds and a cool drizzle, luckily Speedway was only 5 miles from the hotel. We arrived at Speedway, went to the parts counter and bought a moon disc, will be a neat autograph deal. Neat it was, I got almost all of the biggies to sign my disc, will get a few more tomorrow. The Smith collection is outstanding, cars, toys, pedal cars, lunch boxes, LP's, engines all real neat. We had a great free lunch of salad and pizza and drink. The second collection was awesome. The downer was the sign..."No Photos" He has the real Monkee mobile, back to the future car, munster coach, one of the General Lees, hot rods, Great American race cars, bonneville cars, many many Mopar drag cars, a full size diner, speed shop with shelves stocked, a bar room with a pool table a 30ft wood, marble and mirror bar from a cafe in New York city from 1906. What a place!! Cookies and drinks were served. We than hit the road and drove 200 miles to Ankeny, IA to Dennis Albaugh's chevy collection. We got to park on the 19 hole golf course, right on the grass! Dennis has one of every Chevy convertible made from beginning to 69 or so, many vettes, signs and more. He fed us dinner...a steak filet dinner with

all the sides, and pie for dessert. He knows how to entertain. It was a great day, saw so many neat things and people, cars, places. In the morning its 300 miles to Madison, WI to another private collection.What a trip!!