Next weekend is the 40th Annual Street Rod Nationals......and the last one as we know it. Next year the cutoff date for cars is 1980...can you believe that??
Anyway we are leaving in the morning, Saturday 8/1. First stop is the "Hoodlums" breakfast in St Cloud, then Cambridge to a antique flea market, onto Chippewa Falls WI to a cruise night and Sunday morning a swap meet and car show. That should make a full day one.
I hope to get to Chip Falls early enough to visit Paul Oman's private collection of cars. Terry and Shirley Nystrom will be traveling with us in their new 40 Ford coupe. I am driving the 32 Deuce Delivery. This should be a great trip. Madison WI will be Sunday night, Indy Monday night, a trip to the Indy 500 museum, another big antique store in Seymour IN, a kick off party at T&T body shop Tuesday night,also in Seymour, then Wednesday we hit Louisville and spend a few hours at HDQS looking at rods. The show officially starts on Thursday......fun time.
Friday, July 31, 2009
Monday, July 27, 2009
Saturday/Sunday/Monday
Saturday morning was a cloudy sky day, it was misting a little as went drove into the park about 7:30. It rained slightly on and off several times in the morning, it kept it on the cooler side. I did not mind wiping off the car a few times. It was a very enjoyable day weather wise and car looking wise. I bought a Starbird book, a Pat Ganahal book on Custom cars, two Roger Jetter story books, a new trend magazine on custom cars all autographed by the authors. I watch Bill Hines chop the 47 Ford with Alex Gambino's help. At 1 PM all of the attending "Hall of Fame" members sat together to sign autographs, I got them all. Cool! The music was great, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison pretenders were awesome.
The pinstripers Panel Jam auction was fun, I bought a favorite panel Friday so I kept my hands in my pocket and bought nothing. There were some good buys and some high priced buys.
Saturday night was more entertainment at the hotel, fun time.
We left Sunday about noon and headed home, drove to Council Bluffs for the night. We took the hotel shuttle to the casino for dinner then hit the sack, tired. Monday we left about 9 AM and arrived at the Hoodlum's cruise night about 6PM, had dinner talked to friends, looked at cars and got home about 9 AM. Time for bed, I am tired. In the morning its getting the "Deuce Delivery" ready for the trip Saturday to Louisville, KY. It was a fun time driving with Jerry and Doris Johnson, I thank them for including us in their circle of friends, sure made a bunch of new friends this trip!!
The pinstripers Panel Jam auction was fun, I bought a favorite panel Friday so I kept my hands in my pocket and bought nothing. There were some good buys and some high priced buys.
Saturday night was more entertainment at the hotel, fun time.
We left Sunday about noon and headed home, drove to Council Bluffs for the night. We took the hotel shuttle to the casino for dinner then hit the sack, tired. Monday we left about 9 AM and arrived at the Hoodlum's cruise night about 6PM, had dinner talked to friends, looked at cars and got home about 9 AM. Time for bed, I am tired. In the morning its getting the "Deuce Delivery" ready for the trip Saturday to Louisville, KY. It was a fun time driving with Jerry and Doris Johnson, I thank them for including us in their circle of friends, sure made a bunch of new friends this trip!!
Friday, July 24, 2009
Friday at the show
Got to the park at 8 AM, beautiful grassy, many trees, lots of shade...good thing because it was 100 today! We parked on the southwest corner where we could get a breeze all day. The interior of the park was very still, no breeze at all.
Beautiful customs all over. Many celebs, Barris, Bill Hines, Starbird, John D'agistino,just to name a few. Many famous customs. This is really kool show.
There are quite a few vendors, mostly custom stuff, several pinstripers striping cars and selling panels. I bought a really neat panel with a rat fink on it, striping and all of Big Daddy's car's names. I bought the two newest Roger Jetter's story books, I had his first one already.
Tomorrow they are expecting another couple of hundred cars, there were many cars already today.
Tonight was "run what you brung" drags at the old air strip, we chose not to go, went to eat instead. It was hot, we were tired.
I watched them chop a 47 Ford coupe for a while. They had a great band playing all day, lots of things going on.
It was a fun day.
Beautiful customs all over. Many celebs, Barris, Bill Hines, Starbird, John D'agistino,just to name a few. Many famous customs. This is really kool show.
There are quite a few vendors, mostly custom stuff, several pinstripers striping cars and selling panels. I bought a really neat panel with a rat fink on it, striping and all of Big Daddy's car's names. I bought the two newest Roger Jetter's story books, I had his first one already.
Tomorrow they are expecting another couple of hundred cars, there were many cars already today.
Tonight was "run what you brung" drags at the old air strip, we chose not to go, went to eat instead. It was hot, we were tired.
I watched them chop a 47 Ford coupe for a while. They had a great band playing all day, lots of things going on.
It was a fun day.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Made it to Salina
We had a couple of great days in Wichita...made many new friends, saw neat cars. We met Hub and Gloria, friends of Jerry and Doris Johnsons. Their friends Ken and Nora invited us to stay at their house...nice of them!
Last night was a huge BBQ hot rod and custom party at Rocky's. About 50 or so cars and many many people and tons of food (free food)
I met Lynn Moore (a deuce guy) and the world famous Dave Stuckey. (builder of many old customs, including the famous Lil Coffin) Frank Livingston from CA builder of many many neat fastback customs.
This morning we drove to Salina with 8 other cars. Today we are just hanging out at the headquarters motel lot. There was a combined lunch in front of the rooms, everyone brought some food and we all shared (almost free) I met Mark Morierty from Mound MN, owner of the Car Craft Dream Car, previous owner and restorer of several Big Daddy Roth cars. Cool! Tonight there is a open house at Brite's Hot Rod shop...with a FREE BBQ!!
The big show starts in the morning....its gotta be fun. Oh yea...it is warm here, forcast says for tomorrow a "cool" 97 degrees! Hot weather and hot rods!!
Last night was a huge BBQ hot rod and custom party at Rocky's. About 50 or so cars and many many people and tons of food (free food)
I met Lynn Moore (a deuce guy) and the world famous Dave Stuckey. (builder of many old customs, including the famous Lil Coffin) Frank Livingston from CA builder of many many neat fastback customs.
This morning we drove to Salina with 8 other cars. Today we are just hanging out at the headquarters motel lot. There was a combined lunch in front of the rooms, everyone brought some food and we all shared (almost free) I met Mark Morierty from Mound MN, owner of the Car Craft Dream Car, previous owner and restorer of several Big Daddy Roth cars. Cool! Tonight there is a open house at Brite's Hot Rod shop...with a FREE BBQ!!
The big show starts in the morning....its gotta be fun. Oh yea...it is warm here, forcast says for tomorrow a "cool" 97 degrees! Hot weather and hot rods!!
Monday, July 20, 2009
On the road to "Leadsled Spectacular" show
We left Sunday for Wichita KS and then to the KKOA show in Salina, KS. As we arrived in Des Moines we had a bad noise in the rear end. I called my Buddy Dave and asked to use his shop. He has a great "toy" shop, 3 lifts, every tool you could think of. After a bit of checking we discovered the problem...rear wheel bearings were shot. Luckily O'Riley's are open till 8 PM on Sunday. We switched the bearings, added new lub and put it all back together. Runs real quiet now. Dave and Sandy invited us to spend the night at their house...nice! We had dinner and several Margueritas at the local cafe and then headed to their place.
Today we antiqued all the way to Lincoln....several shops, few miles. In the morning its off to Wichita. Will be a short 200 miles or so.
Today we antiqued all the way to Lincoln....several shops, few miles. In the morning its off to Wichita. Will be a short 200 miles or so.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Home again.....for a while
We made it home at 4:30PM, only about 12 drops of rain, but the highway was wet from St Cloud to home. By 5:30 or so the skies opened up...glad we were home already!. The car ran good. 2500 miles....around 17 mph...good time. I do have a long list of mostly little things to do before next week. The P/S hose fitting came loose again, can't figure why!! There is also a strange bad noise under neath as I hit the drive way. That is on top of the list to check out and fix.
Salina KKOA Leadsled Spectacular is the next stop.....leaving next Monday AM if all goes as planned. It is a show of about 800 customs and hot rods, drags,top chopping exhibation and all kinds of fun stuff.
Salina KKOA Leadsled Spectacular is the next stop.....leaving next Monday AM if all goes as planned. It is a show of about 800 customs and hot rods, drags,top chopping exhibation and all kinds of fun stuff.
Monday, July 13, 2009
Catch up post
Saturday......a great day until the rain started. It poured for several hours. The drains backed up in the lot and we pushed several cars to higher ground. My friend Ron from NY with a very nice 32 highboy coupe, drank a bunch of water. When he tried to start it it broke teeth off of the fly wheel...could have been worse.Pulled the plugs, turned the engine over to push the water out and all is good. My car leaks big time by the windshield, its on the list to fix when I get home.
Sunday...a beautiful day. Clear blue skies. After a quick pass thru the vendor building, we headed out about 1 o'clock. 3 cars, Maki's, Johnson's and us. We spent the night in Lafayette, IN. It was a good day.
Monday.......We left about 9 AM. Tonight we are in Madison, WI. Johnson's went on home, so we are back to 2 cars, I had to re tighten the power steering fittings again. No other problems. We will leave at 9 in the morning and finish the trip. No rush...we are on vacation.
I found my AC leak, its the fitting behind the dash, the one you can't get to! I will remove the dash when I get home fix it so we can go to Kansas next week. Right now it takes a can of freon a day. I have made a small "to do" list to get it all set to go again.
Sunday...a beautiful day. Clear blue skies. After a quick pass thru the vendor building, we headed out about 1 o'clock. 3 cars, Maki's, Johnson's and us. We spent the night in Lafayette, IN. It was a good day.
Monday.......We left about 9 AM. Tonight we are in Madison, WI. Johnson's went on home, so we are back to 2 cars, I had to re tighten the power steering fittings again. No other problems. We will leave at 9 in the morning and finish the trip. No rush...we are on vacation.
I found my AC leak, its the fitting behind the dash, the one you can't get to! I will remove the dash when I get home fix it so we can go to Kansas next week. Right now it takes a can of freon a day. I have made a small "to do" list to get it all set to go again.
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