Event Coverage: 2013 Rumble – Wichita, KS – Part 1

The Rumble, Wichita, KS Sept 28, 2013

The Rumble (formerly Rumble in Delano) has been going on each year in Wichita for a few years now. This is the second year for the show’s new late September date and the first time for the show’s new location just south of the Go Away Garage in downtown Wichita. Those two changes can be tough for a show to survive, but from my experience Saturday I think the show came through fine.

I really dig the under Kellogg/US-54 location, it just has an interesting and kool look about it. Here’s my Galaxie when I rolled in. As always, to purchase any of these photos as a print, click on it and you’ll be taken to the gallery where you can pick size and paper style. Metallic is my favorite paper right now but they all have their own place to be used and the site will even tell you what each does best.

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There were quite a few early arrivers like myself.

Doug’s Toad and McPhail’s 41 Buick at the registration booth.

A few of the pinstripers hung out at the Go Away Garage and had a panel jam.

The platform out side of the Go Away Garage made for a great place to watch the incoming rides.

Jason and his truck have been at a lot of the same shows as I have been lately, and I’m not complaining.

Jack and his 51 leading in a few friends from the Mulvane Marauders. The 51 and Joe’s 41 Ford Pickup behind it took home 4 combined awards. The awards were hand made and painted and some of the koolest I’ve seen all year so far. Congrats to Fast AL’s Upholstery on the Best Interior award on the 51.

I just can’t stop taking photos of the Toad. Here’s some from a photo shoot for CKD magazine.

And McPhail’s 41 Buick sitting pretty.

Johnny Hammann brought out his shoebox.

Look! I found a couple of Dirty Martinis 🙂 with Larry Jame’s Caddy

Variations on a theme…

Newly finished this summer, and already one of my favorites.

Another that I’ve seen all over this year but I can’t stop taking pics of it.

That’s it for this first post, more throughout the week or you can click here and see the entire gallery.

See you at a show,
Royboy

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September 29, 2013September 29, 2013

Upcoming Event: 2013 October Schedule

The month of September has been a busy one. With an event every weekend and most of those weekends with multiple option of events to attend, it’s definitely been a good time. October is shaping up much the same way. I thought I’d give you a list of the events that I’m going to attend and some that I can’t, hopefully I will have friends turning in coverage from the ones that I cannot make so that you and I can enjoy the photos. Without further ado, here is the schedule.

October Schedule

Oct. 4th

Hutchinson, KS – Johnny Torres Upholstery Open House

One of my many talented friends doing upholstery for a living. Johnny is having an open house at his shop in Hutchinson, KS on Friday night before the big Saturday show in downtown Hutch.

Oct. 5th

Hutchinson, KS – 6th Annual Hutch Rod Run

Russell, KS – Flatland Car Show

Abilene, KS – Chisholm Trail Days

Oklahoma City – Shoebox Central Run –

Oct. 12th

Lamar, MO – Ol Geezers Car Show

Woodstock, IL – Iron Invasion

Agitators show – Atomic Rod & Custom Car Show

Oct. 18th & 19th

Salina, KS – NOT A CAR SHOW – This one is not a car show, has nothing to do with cars, but is a mainstay on my schedule. I have worked as a stage hand and later as an assistant engineer for the BluesMasters at the Crossroads at Blue Heaven Studios since 2000. If you are a fan of blues music this is the place to be Friday and Saturday nights.

Oct. 26th

Sand Springs, OK – Hot Rod Garage is a well known high end hot rod and custom shop in the Tulsa area. The 26th is their open house and I’ve heard that there will be 12 front engine dragsters on display among a bunch of customer cars and more. Definitely looking forward to heading down to this event for the first time.

November

November will continue the busy schedule with an event every weekend, I may even do one on Thanksgiving weekend if I can make enough money to cover the gas to Denver and back after going to Oklahoma once and Texas twice!

See you at a show,

Royboy

September 28, 2013September 28, 2013

Starliner Video

This is an experiment. I’m looking for feedback on the idea. I just threw this together but if you like it, I could do them more often for some of the shows. Leave your feedback below.

Thanks to the Psycho Devilles for the the music “Addicted” and “Wicked Times” off of their Night Prowler CD

go here for the CD

go here for the downloadable mp3

For more info on the show go to www.straykatkustoms.com

See you at a show,
Royboy

September 27, 2013October 8, 2013

Jonnie King interviews Chuck Miller

Last week I introduced you all to my friend Jonnie King and his website. This week we’ve got audio for you from an interview that Jonnie did with Chuck Miller on his beautiful 32 Roadster, an 18 year project. Click here to go to the page to hear the whole interview.

Go spend some time on Jonnie’s site, you could easily spend a few hours just hanging out and listening to his interviews.

See you at a show,

Royboy

September 26, 2013September 26, 2013

Event Coverage: 2013 Ol Marais River Run Part 4

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The beautiful blue Kansas sky and the big trees of Forest Park combined to make lots and lots of harsh shadows. If I had more time at the show I would have used an off camera flash to fill in a bit, but I had 3 hours to cover a park with about 2000 cars in it… So yeah I didn’t do that 🙂

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: Like it? Click on the photo to buy a print.; Sooooo Nice

: Like it? Click on the photo to buy a print.; I stopped in to see the guys from Affordable Street Rods, this beautiful roadster is theirs and is just plain awesome.

: Like it? Click on the photo to buy a print.; I love the stance of this shoebox. If any of you know the owner I’d like to find out how this stance was achieved. I have 3″ drop springs for the front of mine and 3″ drop springs for the rear, but I’m sure I need to get down farther than that.

: Like it? Click on the photo to buy a print.; I see the Spiwak’s about everywhere I go and it’s never a bad thing.

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: Like it? Click on the photo to buy a print.; A touch too much.

: Like it? Click on the photo to buy a print.; I’m not normally a Camaro guy but this one was very nice.

: Like it? Click on the photo to buy a print.; I’ve always liked this 40

: Like it? Click on the photo to buy a print.; Fresh back from the Hot Rod Hill Climb

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: Like it? Click on the photo to buy a print.; Nice scallops

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: Like it? Click on the photo to buy a print.; That’s a heck of a stretch job!

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: Like it? Click on the photo to buy a print.; My favorite ride of the show. This is a true survivor hot rod that was a dirt track racer before it was turned into this show rod in the 60’s

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: Like it? Click on the photo to buy a print.; It’s neighbor wasn’t too shabby either!

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: Like it? Click on the photo to buy a print.; Look at all of those identical hoods open. You can bet your behind I walked right by that whole area. Who needs to stop and look at 6 identical cars except for their paint colors?

: Like it? Click on the photo to buy a print.; Bryce, lookie here my friend.

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: Like it? Click on the photo to buy a print.; You cannot go wrong with a Rivi

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: Like it? Click on the photo to buy a print.; A very nice Anglia

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: Like it? Click on the photo to buy a print.; Gentry’s GMC Cabover is evolving every time I see it. I’m not sure it could lay out last time I saw it.

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That’s it folks, that’s what I saw in my whirlwind 2013 Ol Marais River Run trip. I only had time for 1 pass around the park, so if I missed your ride, I apologize.

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See you at a show,

Royboy

September 25, 2013September 25, 2013

Event Coverage: 2013 Ol Marais River Run Part 3

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One of my favorite’s from the Greaserama was also in Ottawa.

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Beautiful truck, the suicide hood being open is less visually offensive than if it was a regular style.

My dad’s 59 Thunderbird and our extended “family’s” cars behind it.

Frank’s beautiful 56 Chevy took home an award for best Home Built I believe. Congrats Frank! I know you’ve put a lot of time and effort into your ride!

Rick’s 57 has every option that you might want for a kool road trip cruiser and will look good while doing it.

Roger Ward’s car has looked this good for a long long time and gets driven.

Feed us, feeeeeeed ussss, feeeeeeeeeeeeeed ussssssssssss!

Pretty good stance on this shoebox

You don’t see these done up nice too often, if you’re going to take the whole tribe across country, this is the car for you.

too bad about the hood.

3rd or 4th show this summer I’ve run across this group.

Not normally my style but something about it I liked.

Keith Bright’s beautiful roadster.

Some of my Nebraska/Kansas line friends

I’ve shot Bill’s “Sledsel” for a magazine feature.

A nice adaptation of an American Graffiti style build.

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See you at a show,

Royboy

September 24, 2013September 25, 2013

Event Coverage: 2013 Ol Marais River Run Part 2

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A whole bunch of kool rides this post.

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I’m not really sure what all is going on here but it sure looks like a lot of work.

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See you at a show,

Royboy

September 23, 2013September 25, 2013

Event Coverage: 2013 Ol Marais River Run Part 1

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Finally a good weekend weather wise for this show, and it was obvious that the rain of the previous couple of years was the culprit keeping the show from exploding. By all accounts of those that I talked to this was the biggest one yet. I was able to stop in for a few hours and make 1 pass around the park before heading off to Fast A.L.’s Upholstery Open House that I featured yesterday.

My friend’s beautiful 39.

Neal’s Canopy Express GMC

Former dirt track racer, turned 60’s show rod. Good to see it driving!

Ugh why do you leave the hood and trunk open? IT RUINS THE LINES OF THE CARS. Shut them down unless you have something truly unique under the hood.

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See you at a show,

Royboy

September 22, 2013September 23, 2013

Event Coverage: 2013 Fast A.L.’s Upholstery Open House

Saturday Sept. 21, 2013 was Fast A.L.’s Upholstery Open House. 1 year before Aaron Lawrence (A.L.) had left his previous position with a high end hot rod shop to run his own upholstery venture full time. This open house is a big milestone for Lawrence, as a year’s worth of kool cars have rolled through his doors and the projects keep booking him out in the future. Do good work at a reasonable price and people will tell their friends, it’s one of the best free advertising principles out there and it works.

Congrats on 1 year Aaron, and all my best for another great year!

See you at a show,

Royboy

September 21, 2013September 21, 2013

Event Coverage: Hot Rod Hill Climb Coverage

From the coverage I’ve seen, I really messed up not going to the Hot Rod Hill Climb. Looks like a really kool event! The rains and devastating flooding on the eastern side of the Rockies could not keep the folks from getting up to Georgetown, CO for the event on Sept. 14th. This was the 60th Anniversary of the 1953 Hot Rod Hill Climb and from the looks of it, it was awesome!

The following photos are from Hot Rod Hill Climb’s Instagram page, or the Hot Rod Hill Climb Facebook posted here with permission from the owner.

Here are some links to some amazing coverage.

Hot Rod Magazine’s website

Rod Authority’s Coverage

Museum of American Speed

Here’s a kool youtube video from Michael West

A ton of people have posted photos on the Hot Rod Hill Climb thread on the H.A.M.B. it’s definitely worth some time!

If at all possible I will not miss it again.

See you at a show,

Royboy

September 20, 2013June 29, 2018

Car Feature: Doug Reed’s 1949 Oldsmobile “The Toad”

It’s hard for me to come up with something to say about this car and it’s owner, Doug Reed. Doug has become a great friend and mentor of mine over the last few years. He’s been covering the hot rod/kustom scene in this area for over 3 decades, doing his part to get publicity for the talented builders and dedicated car owners of the region, just as I am attempting to do now. No words that I come up with express how much I dig this car and the man that owns it.

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September 19, 2013September 26, 2013

2013 Starliner Art

I’m slowly working through some of the photos to do a bit more editing and I thought I’d share those with you here in this extra post. From time to time I’ll be adding in these 3pm posts in addition to the 9am regular posts, so stay tuned! Subscribe using the box on the right side of the page here so you don’t miss any of the coverage.

More to come next week, see you at a show,

Royboy

September 19, 2013October 8, 2013

Jonnie King And Gene Winfield Discuss Pacifica

While not an artist per se, Jonnie King is the focus of today’s post. If you’ve never been to his site, “Legends Of The Rod & Custom Hall of Fame” then you’re missing out! Jonnie interviews many of the koolest kustom folks and posts the interviews on the site. A few years ago we crossed paths and I’m not sure how we even met but I’m glad that we did! If you don’t know who Jonnie is, here is his site.

One of the newest updates on the site is an interview with Gene Winfield talking about his 2013 777 Award winning clone of his famous Pacifica Econoline Ford Pickup. The original build was done in 1962, and the clone is visually just about the same as the original, but underneath the truck is much more modern. Click here to open that page, the audio will begin automatically.

I’m hoping to talk Jonnie into doing a blog post here for you whenever he has new audio articles up, at the very least, I will do a post like this one and give you links to the good stuff!

See you at a show,

Royboy

What is your favorite Gene Winfield build? Comment below!

September 18, 2013September 18, 2013

Event Coverage: SKOOPS Annual Sock Hop and Cruz-In Car Show

Sunday morning I was talking with a friend of mine on facebook and he mentioned that he was about to head out to a show just 40 miles down the road from me. I didn’t feel like sitting home all day so I hopped in the car and headed south to Hesston, KS (about 30 miles north of Wichita). What I found was a nice small town show covering some of the downtown area of Hesston featuring cars of all types from all over the region.

You don’t see a Pantera all that often.

I have another shot or two of this, I’ll save for later though 🙂

Here’s one you don’t see every day.

See you at a show,

Royboy

September 17, 2013May 7, 2025

Event Coverage: My Favorite Shows Year After Year

It’s no secret that I get to a lot of events across the midwest. I certainly have my favorites, this is a partial list of the shows I like, with a link to the show’s official website if possible and some of my show coverage where I can. My philosophy is different than many, I don’t think that a huge car count is always a good thing. My favorite experiences at shows have all been when the car counts were less than 250. I don’t have anything against the bigger shows, I’ve had great times at them as well but the very best experiences were these select smaller ones.

Texas Thaw – 1st Weekend of March – Denton, TX

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September 16, 2013May 7, 2025

1 Month Warning: Iron Invasion – Woodstock, IL

Just under a month away from the Iron Invasion! Oct. 12th in Woodstock, IL will be the 2nd Iron Invasion show, the first was a really good time, the 2nd should be even better!

Here is the schedule of the weekend’s events.

And a list of bands performing with some youtube clips of each one.

Here’s a bit of what I saw last time!

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September 14, 2013May 7, 2025

Event Coverage : 2013 Starliner Part 6

See you down the road my friends!

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September 13, 2013May 7, 2025

Event Coverage : 2013 Starliner Part 5

LOTS of photos in this one folks!

The family that hangs out at the cars show together…is kool.

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September 12, 2013May 7, 2025

Event Coverage : 2013 Starliner Part 4

For Part 4 we’re still at the show, and we start with Aaron of Fast A.L.’s Upholstery’s Ford and Mickey’s (StrayKatKustoms’) 60 Chevrolet flattop with 60 Merc Grille and Pontiac taillights.

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September 11, 2013May 7, 2025

Event Coverage : 2013 Starliner Part 3

So here we are on Saturday morning at the Kansas Aviation Museum.

I backed the Galaxie up under the wing of the KC135 as far as I could to keep in the shade.

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September 10, 2013May 7, 2025

Event Coverage : 2013 Starliner Part 2

The 2nd stop on the Garage Krawl for our group was my friend Roger’s house. Due to it being a private property I will not mention his last name or where it is. Roger has a fantastic collection of Fords mostly 40’s of various types and a couple of Falcons and more, but his automobilia collection is equally as impressive.

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September 9, 2013May 7, 2025

Event Coverage : 2013 Starliner Part 1

As I did last year, I got to the Host Hotel on Thursday evening about 7pm so that I could wake up ready to go on the Garage Krawl on Friday morning. After dinner with some friends I shot some night shots in the parking lot.

One of my favorite Mercs around.

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September 8, 2013May 7, 2025

Last 2013 Greaserama Post

Here are some HDR shots from the Greaserama.

Proof that HDR doesn’t have to be wild, this is the style I prefer for most shots, just making the photo look more like what your eye sees (with a little extra something).