Tuesday

We drove to Montrose to visit old friend Joe, big surprise for him! From there we went to the Gateway Museum, such a Classy museum. All the cars were 100 point restorations, nothing shabby at all. The 3 million dollar f88 Olds was a sight to see! The scenery today was outstanding as well as the road conditions. We drove into Telluride, Co and then onto Cortez, arriving about 8PM. About 400 miles, visits and a museum tour...a good day. In the morning we will head towards the north rim of the Grand Canyon going thru Monument Valley on the way.

Monday

We had a great breakfast with John and then it was off to the Denver Deuce factory. That ended up being a 3 hour photo shoot of our roadsters with the Denver skyline as a backdrop.....fun. It was on the top floor of a parking ramp next doot to the old Tivoli Brewery. They want to use our finnished cars in some of their advertising and signs or what ever. The shop is a very nice place, bigger and better than the old Rod Bod shop.
We drove west from Denver thru the mountains and stopped tonight in Salida, CO. A beautiful drive up, over the mountains and next to the river the last several miles, very senic. It was a gorgeous day, high 80's and sunny, no clouds, lotys of sun screen, but my face still got burned, I think wind burned mostly.
In the morning we will stop to see old friend Joe in Montrose, CO and then onto Gateway Auto Museum. I have not seen or heard from Joe since he was in our wedding 43 years ago, he does not know we are coming...this could be fun!!

talk to you tomorrow...................Dale

Sunday

We spent the day untill about 2 PM at the show. Another beautiful day, clear blue sky, about 85 degrees. Picked up Rodney at the airport and found a hotel in south Denver. In the morning we will have breakfast with John Stranges, a retired Walgreen colleague from old days in CT. Plans then call for a trip to Streamline Speed Shop to see the new "Denver Deuce" metal roadster factory. (the old RodBod Co sold out to Deuce America Co) then over the mtns we go.
An exciting change in plans for this weekend, we are going to the Rat Fink Reunion at Trixie's place in Manti, UT, that should be a BLAST!!

later.....................Dale

Saturday

Spent the day at the show, lots of nice cars, close to 2000, lots of warm sun. Nothing special happened but a good day.
Thursday we went to Pinkees open house/kick off party. A really awesome shop. Huge, spotless, many projects. They served free beer and food..........a good time.
We will go back to the fairgrounds in the morning, leave about 1 PM to go to airport to pick up Rodney.

Friday night

We woke up Thursday morning to more rainy mist and heavy clouds. Went to my sister's and put the new accelerator pump in the carb, the old one had just come apart and jammed the rod. Easy fix and a quick one too. By the time we hit Sidney, NE about 70 miles the sun had come out, we stopped at a car wash and cleaned the muddy cars. Stopped in Sterling CO for lunch ran into 3 cars of friends from Chicago area at the restaurant. Took the tops off after lunch and came on in "topless" FINALLY!
Today we went to the show, checked out the cars, vendors, etc, nice grounds, new buildings, nice grass. Saw several friends from all over, AZ, CO,IL ,met some new ones from NE, IA,.... good day.
Saturday will be the same deal. Rodney flies in Sunday PM. Then Monday its off to see the sites.

Wednesday

Woke up this morning to more clouds and rain. I checked the radio fuse and was good, but won't light up, lucky for me the battery is 6 inches from the radio, so I ran a jumper wire direct to the battery....I got tunes!! I will trace the broken wire when I get home this fall.
We made it to Dale Boesch Hot Rods in Humphree, NE. What a cool shop, 5 guys working, 6 projects there that are real trick. Across the street he has 4 other cars under construction. We spent about 2 hours there listening to him tell us about all the changes he has done to each car. Like chopping a 55 chevy 3/4 inch, laying the front and back glass down to use stock size. He had a 33 Ford, 55 chev, 36 Ford, malibu, Mustang and a completely hand built steel roadster in the works.
We got to hometown at 4:30, went to Sister's place for a steak BBQ dinner (Free food begins). In the morning we will wash the cars, fix my carb and head for Loveland, CO.
Another great day altho a bit cool! About 400 miles today. Short 250 miles tomorrow.
See ya................................

Day 1

We made it to Fremont NE tonite. It was a COLD day. I stopped in Montecello and put on a windbreaker over my Hoodlums sweat shirt, that helped alot. I got the electric blanket out in the cities, that helped even more. 60 miles before Des Moines it started to rain. If you drive fast enough you will stay pretty dry!I met barry In Des Moines at 12:30, pretty much on time. If it was not for the heavy traffic by Rogers to Hwy 55 I would have been on time. It took 3 hours to get to Lakeville....98 miles! I put the top on....turned into a "woosie boy", but a dry one.
As we left Des Moines to head west, I had no throttle, the pedal was jammed. After messing with the carb linkage we figured out the accerlator pump was jammed, I disconnected the lever to the pump and drove on....works every bit as good! Stopped at a NAPA, no acelerator pumps any where. I finally called hometown of Alliance, NE had NAPA order one from Denver, will be in tomorrow, I will put it in tomorrow night or maybe not, might just carry it along. It runs fine with out it!
It is still raining out now, should be clear in the morning, I hope so. It was a fun day.all roadster days are FUN! We will stop at Dale Boesch Hot Rods in the morning to check out his new projects and then onto Alliance for the night.
The radio stopped first thing this morning, I need to check that out, I am tired of hearing me sing, I miss my sirrus tunes.
Thats about all for tonight, talk to you all tomorrow. Dale