"Cruise to the Quarry" MSRA event

Saturday was the first ever MSRA "Cruise to the Quarry" hosted by the Hot Rod Hoodlums of Central Minnesota. Lumpy and Terry did a great job of organizing and planning the event. The weather was cloudy and cool, but fine. There were almost 300 cars attending, a great feat for the first time ever. Cars from all around, will be interesting to see where they all came from. Moliters is a really nice place for the event, I sure hope it continues for more years.
The real highlight of the event for me was being nominated for car of the year with the RPU. That's right, now we have both new deuces in the running for car of the year, not sure if that doubled our chances or "halfed" our chances.....LOL. It is just a great feeling to have them nominated....two in one year and the Buick last year....WOW. Maybe I do need a "new project: for this winter and try again next year!! Just kidding.
I had favorite son in law Le and Cooper drive the RPU, we drove the 3w. I think they had fun.If I put many more event stickers on the windshield I won't be able to see out of the right side.

MSRA Fall Campout

This past weekend we went to the MSRA Fall Campout in Grand Rapids. There was six or seven of us that drove together. It was a nice drive, about 150 miles. The weekend event was very nice, two free meals, poker run, cruise thru the country, show and shine on Saturday, plenty of things to do. We saw several friends from the cities that also made the trip.
The highlight of the weekend for us was being nominated for MSRA Car of the Year !! That is a great honor. We are very happy and thsnkful. Prety cool to have had the Buick nominated last year and the 3w this year.

Minneapolis Messaround

I left about 8AM this morning for the Minneapolis Messaroud, a tradtional hot rod and custom show at the Memory Lanes in Mpls. What a fun cool show. Beautiful weather, lots of cool cars, bands, food, vendors, pinstripers, a real neat show.
I drove my RPU, my neighbor Jerry in his 41 Chevy coupe, we stopped in Elk River and picked up his son and girlfriend in their 27 T coupe.It was a nice drive, about 75 miles.

49 in 7

My friend Dave Schaub is at it again. Last year he drove his 32 roadster to 49 states in 8 days....this year it's 7 days. He is on his way right now driving to Maine from California, one minute past midnight on Sept 10 he will leave Maine and drive thru all 49 states, ending in Alaska....quite a feat. This is all done to raise money for the Ronald McDonald house, a very good cause. You can follow his trip and most of all donate to the cause by going to his web site www.49in7.com
Check it out.
He will be driving by St Cloud again this year and I plan to be on the highway to meet him and drive with him for a few miles, maybe all the way to North Dakota....who knows. Last year I drove with him for 60 miles or so.
He is 25% of the total funds he wishes to raise...please check his site, click on the donate button and give something...I did, its easy, goes right to your charge card....(you can get points on your card that way!!) He needs a lot more money to make it to the grand total of $150,000...open your wallets a give.

Off to meet the Rolling Bones

We met at the Copper Lantern for breakfast Sunday morning at 6:30. After a great meal we left at 7:30, headed down Highway 10 to Monticello to meet 2 more cars.There was my black RPU, my blue roadster driven by Darrin, Terry Y and his 34 Chevy, Terry N with the 40 coupe and Lumpy in the Divco beer truck. The meeting place was Holiday station....news to me, there is one on each side of the highway and of course I stopped at the east side and they were waiting on the west side...after a few minutes of waiting, Lumpy called their cell and we found them. So it was off to the other station. We picked up Eugene in his deuce roadster and John in his 34 Ford delivery.
I was appointed the leader so off we went on I94, to 494 thru the city and south on I35....traffic was light, a cool Sunday morning so we were "rolling".... 80 to 85. The first gas stop was Lakeville, we all got gas and off again to Clear lake, IA for the next gas stop and to pick up Randy in his 41 Packard. I called Dave to let him know we were on time, in fact about 45 minutes early. Back onto I35 to Des Moines. We made it to Dave's shop about 12:45. There he made us a great pork sandwich. We toured his shop and looked at his toys. His buddy Matt with his 50's built Deuce 5 window came too.
We headed across town to the motel where we were to meet the "Bones". Checked in and set up camp in the back of the hotel lot, canopy, tapped the keg, set up a couple of grills and set back to enjoy.
The bones arrived about 6 PM with the last of them arriving about 7ish. I think there were 10 rods, two trucks/trailers with race cars and a race bike. There were about 6 other local rods that came to the party too.
Monday morning the Bones and the Hoodlums had breakfast at the cool diner next door. After breakfast we all got into our cars and headed out, the Hoodlums up state 65 and the Bones headed west on I80. It was a fun time.
We toured the auto museum in the little town of Williams, IA. They have a very nice display of many neat old cars. Then it was over to I35 and headed north towards home.
Just south of the cities we had a couple close encounters with a couple of state troopers but it all worked out fine.
I arrived home about 4:30. The GPS showed 700 miles exactly. The "fun meter" was pegged all the way.......a real fun time. Thanks to all the Hoodlums that came along with me, now they know how my summers go. Eight hot rods, eleven hoodlums, 700 miles, one keg of beer equals a fun weekend!!

Hot Rod Hoodlums meet up with the Rolling Bones of NY

Sunday morning we are meeting at the Copper Lantern at 6:30 for breakfast. We will leave at 7:30 for Des Moines. There will be three 32's, a 34 Chevy, 40 Ford,55 Divco beer truck,I think John will be in his 34 Ford, in Clear Lake, IA we pick up a 30something Packard. That should make eight rods with 13 guys.
Plans are to meet at my friend Dave's shop for a great pork tenderloin sandwich lunch about 1:30 PM. After lunch and a tour of Dave's shop and toys we will all head over to Motel 6 in Altoona to meet with the Rolling Bones. There we will cook burgers in the lot, drink beer and tell stories.......fun!! Dave and his son Kevin will drive with us in their 409 powered Model A Ford, as well as another friend, Matt in his channeled deuce 5window.

When we return Monday night, I plan to post photos and update the weekend events. I am not taking the laptop with me. Check in after Monday night for the latest update.

Thursday/Sunday

The open house party at Brite's was great. Pulled pork and all the fixins, some real cool projects in the shop. There were lots of cars and people.

Friday was a gorgeous day, cloudy and highs in the 80's. I walked the park over and over. Saw many friends from all over. Lots and lots of beautiful cars......all modified in some way, from mild to wild. I bought several pinstripe art work pieces. Did you ever see a pig fink?? a piggy bank painted like a rat fink!! cool !

Saturday.....it was HOT....107 I think it was...it was unreal. We left the park about 4;30 and went to eat and cool off. My shirt was wet all day. Saturday night was a great gathering in the hotel lot, cars cruising thru, flame throwers burning, like we needed more heat!! It was a fun day even tho it was so hot.

Sunday...hot again. The best thing Sunday was watching Steve collect all the awards for his Pontiac. He walked away with 5 of them!! Pretty cool. Congrats Steve. We spent the night in Salina, had one last dinner with several friends.

Monday.....We left about 9 AM drove to Sioux Falls. Arrived there about 7 PM. Kind of a long day. We are all tired from the weekend and the heat is still here. It was 100 all day driving thru Kansas and Nebraska and into South Dakota. Twice we were stuck on the roadside waiting for a pilot truck to guide us down a one lane construction road. We had to open the hood and turn off the engine. Sunday night we drove thru town about 9 miles, going 30 to 35 mph, AC on high and the temp gauge was stuck at 200.......not bad. Stopped on the highway, in the hot sun, even with all 3 fans on, it puked over......the hood was so hot I had to use a towel to open it. It still fired right up when it was our turn to go down the one laner.

Tuesday......Jerry needs to go to Dakota Digital to get something checked, so that is the plan at 9 AM, then off to drive the last 200+ miles to get home. The heat index is still 100 here at 10 PM. It will be good to get home.

This weekend (Sunday) will be the roadster trip to Des Moines to meet up with the Rolling Bones guys for a party in the parking lot. That should be lots of fun.....stay tuned.