Month: January 2014

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2 Month Warning: The Chill

For a couple of years now I’ve covered a fairly new show called The Chill held in Park City, KS in the fairgrounds buildings next to the Kansas Coliseum just north of Wichita, KS on I-135. I’ve enjoyed the show each time I’ve been to it, it’s always good to have another event to attend. The show has 1 giant room dedicated to bikes and bike related vendors, and 2 that are filled with cars and car related vendors. The show this year goes down Feb. 28 – Mar. 2, 2014. For more info go here.

Here’s a slide show from the 2013 Chill (click here to see the gallery if you do not see the slide show below).

Here’s one from 2012 (click here to go to the gallery if you don’t see the slide show below)

And 2011 (click here to go to the gallery if you don’t see the slideshow below)

See you at a show,

Royboy

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2 Month Warning: Texas Thaw

The Texas Thaw is an awesome drag race/car show event held March 1st at the North Star Dragway along I-35 just north of Denton, TX. In 2013 I made my first trip down to the Thaw, what I found was a great selection of vintage drag machines and hot rods that were out taking some passes on the track.

Below is a slide show from that trip, if you don’t see it, click here to see the entire gallery.

See you at a show,
Royboy

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A Heartfelt Thank You

2013 was the best year yet for Royboy Productions and a pretty good one for me personally. I want to say thank you to everyone involved in making it so great. I’m not going to list everyone here as I’m sure that I’d miss a bunch of people.

Yesterday I made the bulk of the donations for the 2014 Calendar For Charity Project. In all over $1200 was donated yesterday to the Red Cross and the Wounded Warrior Project with some more to be sent as soon as we sell the final 13 calendars. Thanks to all of you that bought one for making that possible!

I never imagined how different life would look a few years later when I first started hitting shows hard in 2009, heading out as often as I could to shoot photos for free (they weren’t all that great back then and maybe not all that much better now). Somehow along the way a few people took note and I’ve told the story here of how a chance encounter with a couple of Wichita Fundamentals members gave my life a huge swerve.

I often refer to the friends that I have made over the last few years as my rod/kustom family. That’s as close as I can come to describing how I feel about these folks. It’s more than friends, it’s a kinship, a brotherhood, it’s well, it’s family.

This website is dedicated to me sharing these talented builders, colorful car owners, amazing artists, and everyone else I run into with the entire world. The goal is always to give some credit where credit is due with these folks who don’t get enough attention and to encourage you folks to get yourself to a car show. Even if you don’t have a ride yet, go to one of these shows and start meeting people. This car hobby thing is far reaching and I can say without a doubt that the best people that I’ve ever met have been behind the wheel of a kool kustom or hot rod.

Thank you folks for following along on my adventures here in 2013 and I’m looking forward to serving you in 2014. If you have any comments or suggestions use the contact form here and I’ll see what I can do. My goal is to promote the Midwestern traditional hot rod and kustom car scene, not so much to promote the mega dollar street rod scene or the how dangerous can we make it rat scene, so suggestions along those lines are a waste of time.

See you at a show,
Royboy