Another perfect day ay thye show, beautiful weather, 80's, slight breeze. I got there at 9AM (late for me) but with special parking for the "cruise" cars I did not have to worry about a parling spot.
I was interviewed on film and tape from an internet car program, should air in a month or so....www.speedsecrets.info , they walked up to me and asked if I would be willing to do it....cool.

I had most all of the cruise guys sign my metal Americruise license plate, will make a nice garage wall hanger. Tonite I went to the Speedway ice cream social, toured the museum, got Speey Bills photo and autograph and gave him a keychain. About 7PM I went to "10 cent Joes" Folsom Street Speed shop party at his private "museum'. Another free dinner, toured his place saw many Deuce friends there. We were entertained by Elvis singing and performing on stage....fun time.
In the morning I will head north for home...about 500 miles, not bad. Can't believe its almost over.....oh yea almost forgot, I leave Thursday morning for 2 weeks in Des Moines and Columbus, it's not over yet, just a different car! We will be in the Deuce Delivery on this "leg" of the trip.
The "Deuce Cruise across America" continues......................talk to ya soon!

We left Broken Bow t 10 AM headed to Central City NE, toured Valley Speed Shop, what a cool place, an old historical building down town, 2 story brick with an elevator. Upstairs was a full machine shop and a storage area. In the storage was a real full fendered deuce roadster, a 3 window body, an old Hemi on a pallet and another engine and stuff...Wow! On the main floor were several projects under construction, like around 9 or 10. They feed us roast beef sandwiches, pop,chips, beans...more free food!
On to Lincoln.....we arrived at Speedway Warehouse, they had a welcome group with water, pop, cookies...more free food...and a tour of the warehouse. They ship 80,000 items a week, it is 520,000 sq ft, 42 acres, 3 miles of conveyors (almost like a Walgreen Whse). Very interesting.
Lola, my GPS will not hold a charge, so off to Circuit City...they decide it is a defective docking station, not covered by warrenty, only 30 days and I have had her for 6 weeks. Only option is to buy a new docker for $55.00...I was not a happy guy. I asked them to put my defective part into the box and give me the new part, send back as an intial failure (I was in retail for 40 years), they said no, so I buy the new docker, go to the car, plug her into my old cord...no work! I use the new cord and it works, I go back and say I just want to buy a cord, no problem except they are out of cords...I say I want a refund and I will go to Best Buy and buy a cord...OK. I go back to the car to get all of the box and whatever, and then .....wait....I will put my defective piece in the box and keep the new stuff..and get my $55 back.......Bingo! Can't fool an old man all of the time!!
I stopped by Roger Nunn's shop Autografics, on the way to dinner....finally get to cafe at 10PM, but had a few beers and traded stories and lies with the guys, had fun. I met Roger's neighbor, Jerry,he invited me to his house Friday AM to use his lift to check for lose bolts, nice guy. I went there Friday morning, tightened up some bolts, new exhaust rubber cushion on hanger, little stuff. Then off to the show.
Nice show, nice fairgrounds, some vendors, great goodie bag. I got to park in the special area for the "cruisers", had a nice day.
I'm going to Carlos O'Kellys for dinner, Roger gave me a free meal ticket...more free food!!
Back to the show on Saturday, ice cream social at Speedway museum Saturday night, then I got an invition to Folsum Street Speed shop party Saturday night from friend Joe (10cent special)...a fun guy with lots of hotrods. Talk to ya tomorrow Dale

We left Hot Springs at 9 AM to drive 120 miles to Alliance NE, my hometown. We met the local car club at the world famous "Car Henge". The local paper was there for photos, music playing several local rods and customs...we are all celebrities. Next stop was a real Nebraske meal at the local VFW, chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes, corn, salad, and dessert for lunch!!!!
Then it was off to Broken Bow a short 190 miles away. We arrived there about 5 PM. We stopped to change a fuel filter on a 34 Chevy from PA, helped but he still has problems. The locals here all came out, on the town square, had DJ playing music, the local's cars, signs and banners welcoming the "tour". We checked into the motel and went back to the square for the festivities. Rita and I ate at the Arrow Hotel bar and Grille, a great salad and a tall Bud light!! A good day, a little wind burned, red face. Tomorrow its on to Lincoln. See ya........

I'm in Hot Springs, a short trip, about 4 hours to get here, cool about 75 degrees...nice.We were held up in WY with construction, fresh oil and gravel, one way road.....fun. Since noon I have been driving thru the Black Hills, Crazy Horse, Rushmore, Keystone, Hill City, saw the Narrow gauge RR, beat it across several crossings, stopped to take photos of it and the passengers me.
Lots of fun people on this cruise, 3 cars from other cruise, 2 cars from Australia, Brizios new gold R&C mag cover car 55 chevy, left CA with 200 miles on the clock...my kind of car!! Also Brizios blue full fender 32 roadster, I will have photos when I get home. Around 25 or so cars.
Tomorrow its off to my home town for lunch, pick up my sister and onto Broken Bow NE.

Its Monday night, I'm in Casper WY. I took Rodney to the airport this morning to fly home. We spent the night in Denver. I got the roadster pinstriped yesterday, looks really good. Done by "Shartell" from CA.
We drove to Denver to have dinner with the inlaws, found mother in law in the ER room with a very bad bruise on her arm, she was released at 8PM then went to dinner. Mother, father, two brothers in law, was a good time, then onto Denver. Thank goodness for "Lola" thye GPS, I never would have found the hotel!! We got there at 11:30.
Arived in Casper at 4PM, put the dirty clothes in the laundry and went to see friend Rick of Rick's Rod Shop.Tonight I had dinner with niece and her 2 daughters, good time. We all went to the park where the local club had a fried chicken dinner for all of the Americruisers. We just had dessert because we had already had dinner. After the park thing I went back to Rick's to help fix two cars from CA. One is a truck with a leaking rear seal and a bad bearing, I just left there, it was not done yet, I did all I could do, and I am tired.
Drivers meeting in the morning and off to South Dakota. Talk to you all later.

A great day at the show. We saw old friends from New Mexico at breakfast. We parked in the Deuce Day section, walked around then grounds passing out flyers for key chains, got several calls on the cell for them, sold many at the car, set up 2 more vendors for wholesale accounts....good day! 2000 cars, but lots of nice ones.
Made some friends from the cruise, a couple from Hawaii, Jack and Gail, they will be on the Americruise with me and Lincoln, Des Moines, and the Columbus cruise, Louisville and Dearborn, neat!. Back to the show in the morning, we will stay all day, hoping to win a door prize in the afternoon and then off to Denver.

I think last nights blog dissappeared, so here it goes again. We drove over the Monarch Pass, what a beautiful site 11,000 ft high. On the other side we stopped at the Sonic drive in for lunch, neat deal, all full of hot rods. The mgr was very pleased, came out and took photos. We arrived in Pueblo, registered and went to the free BBQ at the lake, lots of cars.
This morning we went to the fairgrounds, nice place. Lots of quality cars. Lots of deuces. We sold several keychains. Made several new friends.
About 3 PM it decided to blow and rain....my covers were at the hotel!! Jerry Dixey let us pull under the Street Rodder tent to stay dry.
Tonight we went to the SoCal grand opening, had free food and looked at more cars. Tomorrow will be back to the fairgrounds for "Deuce Day"