Hot Rods and Kustom Cars
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This was the 5th Gathering At The Roc and it was AWESOME! Mrs. Royboy and myself fired up the trusty steed and headed out from Wichita early Friday morning (we should have went down Thursday morning). We got to Bartlesville just in time for the start of the Reliability Run.
Man, I’ve been busy, this was the 5th event in the 5th straight week! This coming weekend is #6!
Since the last post on here I’ve been to the (click these links to see the videos) KKOA Leadsled Spectacular, the Hot Rod Rock & Rumble, The Greaserama, made a stop at The Evel Knievel Museum, Lead Ain’t Dead, The Rumble Drags and now the OKC Hot Rod Hundred.
I’ve been I think 3 times to the HRH in OKC, this Hot Rod Hundred is actually one of 4 that the Crossmembers Car Club put on across the Midwest. The others happen in Springfield, MO, Wisconsin, and St. Louis, if there is one near you, you need to attend! The gist is simple, it’s usually more fun to drive your cars than it is to sit in a lawn chair next to them at a show, so why not go throw down 100 miles or so with a hundred or two hundred other cool cars?
Wow, where has the time gone? We haven’t been to many events since the last posting on the website and somehow I neglected to share the ones that I have been to on the website!
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Seriously, where do I begin? I’ve only missed one Lonestar Round Up since I started attending them, it’s become a must attend event for me. Over the years the LSRU has become more than a car show, it’s a place where I get to see friends from all over the country, some of which I won’t see again until the next year.
Continue reading “2 Videos of the 2024 Lonestar Round Up Coverage!”
A couple of months ago I got a text from my buddy Matt Smith. Matt had an idea. Soon we had a rough plan in place, gather up as many 39-40 Fords as we could at our buddy Jack Marinelli’s house outside of Wichita, shoot some photos, grill some burgers and enjoy a nice spring Saturday with friends.
For the 2nd year in a row, I made it up to the Sabres Car Club’s Tri- State Auto Exhibition in Denver, CO. Here are some of our favorite cars from the show this year. There’s a ton more than what you see here, all kinds of cars for all kinds of car folks!
Continue reading “2024 Tri-State Auto Exhibition Video Coverage”
At this point, I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve been to Tulsa for the Starbird Rod & Custom Show. It’s become automatic for me. Somehow in that automatic mode, I neglected to make a post here to share the video that I shot at the show!
Continue reading “2024 Starbird Rod & Custom Show Video Coverage!”
For the last 40 years, each January I’ve headed to Wichita for what was previously the Starbird Rod & Custom Show and is now the Cars For Charities Rod & Custom show at Century II and Expo Hall.
The show has gone through a ton of changes over the years, this year the show changed to Saturday and Sunday only, and they no longer offered the Magnificent 7 Award.
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In this episode we talk about the current state of hot rod and custom car print media. With so many of the magazines closing, what’s left? How do we keep them alive?
Continue reading “233: Print Media Death Spiral?”
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Well, this is it. This is the last car show… of the year. Next week is Thanksgiving and the week after that is my Decembrrrr Run, and that’s it for car events for the year for us. The Hobo Happenings show is a great small town show that has some tremendous cars show up at it, more cool traditional hot rods and customs than most small town shows see, AND they serve ham & beans and out of a huge 35 gallon pot to all of the participants!
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This year there were about 240 cars in attendance, I guess the perfect weather really helped! I hope you enjoy the coverage of the show and please consider buying a Royboy Calendar or shirt to help us get back out of the hole for the year and have a little cash ready to start next year!.
See you at a show,
Royboy
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The folks in the Chupacabras Car Club have been putting on the Pistons & Paint show in Denton, Tx for 21 years now, and I’ve been lucky enough to attend for the last few years. This year I decided to go on the cheap, in the daily and making the 660 mile round trip in 1 day, leaving at 6:30 am and getting home a little after 9pm.
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Thanks to all the folks in the club that put the show on and give me a reason to head to north Texas to see a bunch of the hot rod family that I don’t get to see very often.
Here’s the video of the event coverage, I hope you enjoy it!
See you at a show,
Royboy
The easiest way (which costs you nothing) is to share this post! IF you like this post, share it with your car friends using the social media sharing buttons below or just by sending them the link to this page. Every set of eyeballs on the site helps!
If you LOVE what I do, go have a look at my Patreon page where you can make sure that I can keep doing this by supporting my site with a small monthly donation.
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For those of you that don’t already know, the 2024 Royboy Calendars are now shipping! They’ve been on pre-sale for a few weeks but now they are in stock and shipping out.
There’s not much that I can say about the Gathering At The Roc that doesn’t make me sound like they are a paying sponsor of my site. Truth is, they aren’t and I just love the show THAT much.
This weekend, Mrs. Royboy and myself went down to Dewey, OK for the Lead Ain’t Dead Show!
In this episode of Chrome Pipes & Pinstripes I talk with Chris May and Matt Hurley about the upcoming Old North State Invitational show in Winston-Salem, NC on Sept. 23rd.
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In this episode I talk with the man, the founder of the Jalopy Journal website and the legendary HAMB! This one was a ton of fun.
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The 2023 Spam Drags went down August 19, 2023 at Mo-Kan Dragway outside Asbury, MO. For years the Jaolpyjournal.com HAMB Drags happened at the track, when that that event ended, some folks decided to continue an similar event, hence calling it the Spam drags.
I spent most of last week at the 2023 NSRA Street Rod Nationals in Louisville, KY… but I was working the Affordable Street Rods booth and didn’t get to see any of the show. On Sunday morning I was able to sneak out and see some of the Builders Showcase section and get you some video of the incredible rides in it! Continue reading “Video coverage of the 2023 NSRA Street Rod Nationals Builders Showcase!”
Wow, it’s been a heck of a month so far. The summer has been great too! It hasn’t been too hot or anything… until the week of the KKOA Leadsled Spectacular. The average 85 degrees days shot up to well over 100 just in time for all of the kool rides and people to come to town. We had a blast despite the heat and made a video of some of what we saw!
Continue reading “We Survived The Heat! 2023 KKOA Leadsled Spectacular Coverage!”
In this episode Royboy and Mrs. Royboy explain their absence from the podcast world. It’s been a heck of 5 weeks since we put out a show and we just wanted to apologize and explain ourselves.
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In this episode Royboy goes to Big Creek Restoration in Ellis, KS to have a discussion with an 18 year old builder and a veteran builder. Mason Drehs is 18 and has just gotten his first frame up build on the road, Mike Keller is the owner of Big Creek and has nearly 40 years of car building under his belt, starting when he bought the first car at the age of 12.
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In this episode Royboy hangs out drinking old fashioneds with his buddy Cody to talk about their recent Lonestar Round Up pilgrimage and the latest trip to the Stray Kat 500!
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First off, sorry for being so tardy with this one! There’s a lot going on in Royboy-land these days and I just got behind. Another amazing Stray Kat 500 is in the books and now we only have 51 weeks to wait until we get to do it again!
It’s been 4 years since I last made the trek to the Lonestar Round Up, I didn’t realize until I got to the show how much I’d missed it. My buddy Cody and I hopped in the daily driver and headed out Thursday evening to try to get past Fort Worth to avoid morning traffic, rolling in to our hotel a little after midnight.
In this episode Royboy talks with Mike Hollowell and Chad Cox about the upcoming show called Pre-War Pile Up and some of the adventures that they get to have going all over the country to some of the coolest events and vintage hot rod stashes anywhere!
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