The KC World of Wheels has, like I’ve mentioned, all kinds of cars. Certain parts of the show are definitely more my style than others. I’m including all of the other parts because I want to show off the entire show, something I don’t normally do. Lucky for me there were some awesome rides like the Henry J above!
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Starting with the last post (Part 2 here) I was in the middle of the Los Punk Rods display area at the show. I’ve been friends with a bunch of the LPR folks for a few years now, this was my favorite display of theirs at this show that I can remember. Bikes, shoeboxes, vans, kustoms and hot rods, it was right up my alley.
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I’ve been attending this show for a few years, and I’ve seen some changes in it. Not for the best in my opinion but we all know what opinions are like. I loved the south hall when it was ran by my friends from Los Punk Rods club. I hear that Jack Walker will not be doing the Cavalcade of Customs after this year, I sure hope they get someone like him that is a true kustom fan to run it. The show this year had a lot of street rod style builds and restomod type stuff which I appreciate but I’m just not as jazzed about like I am traditional styled hot rods and kustoms. Enjoy the pics.
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First off thanks to RJay’s for sponsoring this week’s coverage of the 2015 KC World of Wheels show! Because of Cory at RJay’s I’m able to offset some of the big travel costs of the Detroit trip in a couple of weeks, I appreciate it!
The Kansas City World of Wheels show has something for everyone. The Cavalcade of Customs is my favorite area but I may be a bit biased. The Los Punk Rods area was also pretty cool with the guys showing off the variety of rides that the members have. Lowrider magazine even had a huge section this year. I’m not a huge lowrider fan but the craftsmanship that it take to build some of these cars is truly impressive. We start the coverage this week with the Cavalcade of Customs display put together by Jack Walker.
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I’ve updated the Shoebox only gallery on the site and thought I’d share some of them with you. One of these days I’ll get my shoebox lowered and get it’s custom grille built and I’ll take it to a show, until then I’ll just drool over these!
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Since 2006 I’ve been shooting photos at car shows across the midwest. In August of 2010 I moved my galleries online to the hosting service Smugmug. Since that time the photo galleries have grown to over 51,800 images that have been viewed over 24,000,000 times!
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Back in 2013 my buddy Dan from Dan’s Hot Rod Photos was kind enough to share some shots from the Detroit Autorama with all of us here. Not that I didn’t already want to go to Detroit, but man seeing it through Dan’s lens really made me make up my mind to go sometime. So next month, I’m going! A new show for me, hopefully a bunch of new rides for you to check out here.
Which has me thinking, just what do you people want from me?
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Again this weekend I had no car show to go to, however I did make my annual trek down to the north side of Wichita to check out the 40th Annual Wichita Model A Club’s Sunflower Swap Meet in Park City, KS. Now I’m the worst kind of guy for a swap meet usually, I don’t get there on Friday morning when the best deals were to be had, I don’t have any disposable money to buy anything, I’m basically there to take up space, look at everything and buy nothing. So I spent a few hours there talking with friends, walking by all of the booths too fast to really see anything and generally just wasting time.
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Awhile back I was invited by a friend to the 10th Annual Bare-Bones Car Club’s Polar Bear Cruise in the Chicago area. Unfortunately for me I couldn’t make it and from the looks of it I missed a hell of a time. All of the photos are used with permission from Scott from Phaeton Speed Shop.
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This week Royboy had no car show to go to so he went to an art gallery and a motorcycle show, then he sits down on the phone with Chuck Leighton to talk about the Rat Fink Reunion, Custom Car Revival and Syracuse Nationals.
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The 2015 Texas Thaw has been rescheduled for April 25th!!!
For the last couple of years I’ve headed down to Denton, TX’s Northstar Dragway to attend the Texas Thaw, and I’ve had a blast. I am bummed that its the same weekend as the Detroit Autorama this year and I’m attending Detroit for the first time. HOWEVER, if you are anywhere in the area, you need to make it down to the Texas Thaw. What follows are links to the event website and some photos from the last two trips down!
Since I didn’t have a car show on the schedule this weekend I looked for other alternatives and I saw my buddy Ricky from Anchor Moto had posted about a bike show. So, after staying up late to be one of the first subscribers to Motornation at 3 am I woke up early and drove a buddy to the Wichita airport. Which is a really dumb way to drive to Lawrence, KS from my place. So, 4 hours after I left home I showed up at the show which was 2 hours away from my place. The parking lot was full, and the entry fee of $5 was more than reasonable…
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Yet another weekend with no car show to go to! So I gathered up a buddy and headed down to Wichita’s Go Away Garage for the January Final Friday. The Go Away Garage always has some great art on the walls and sometimes it’s car related. I took a few cell phone shots to share with you here below.
Since I don’t have any shows to cover for this week I’ve taken the opportunity to preview some upcoming shows, here’s another one! After a couple of years of hearing about the show in 2014 I finally got myself up to Omaha, NE for the Omaha World of Wheels show. For 2015 the show happens Feb. 27-March 1 at the CenturyLink Center in Downtown Omaha.
With no car show to attend this week Royboy tells the tale of a 740 mile trip to Tulsa and Joplin to shoot videos for MotorNation.tv and then sits down with Doc and Micah Parsons for some story telling.
Coming up Feb. 27-March 1 in Park City, KS (just north of Wichita) is the Park City Chill! The show is held at the Pavilions next to the old KS Coliseum and has been going down there for the last few years. Below are some photos from the last few years and links to the official website. If this looks like your type of event then make sure to put the show on your calendar!
February 20-22, 2015 is the 51st Darryl Starbird Rod & Kustom Car Show at the River Spirit Expo at Expo Square Fairgrounds, Tulsa, OK. Here are some photos of the last few years’ show to get you in the mood for this year! I’ve been attending the show for the last few years, the cars competing for the Fine Nine award are always some of the best in the country.
The Sharer Merc after the front bumper has been moved back to the body, the bumper center has been reshaped, the DeSoto teeth have been mounted to a custom made pan and the 52 Merc head light rings have been added to french the headlights.
Since there was no show this weekend I went down to Tulsa, OK to shoot some feature videos for the upcoming MotorNation.tv channel. After that I headed over to the Joplin area to see what Ryno was up to. The Sharer Merc was up on the lift so that he could install the new 52 Mercury headlight rings and french the headlights behind them.
Over the last few years I’ve met some great folks doing this. One of them is Jonnie King! He’s been on my podcast and he’s been writing these posts for you to enjoy on the site for the last couple of years! Here’s his newest post.
Normally I’m more of a traditional hot rod and kustom car guy, this show has some of that and tons of other stuff. The fact that the other stuff at this show is really good stuff means you see all of it. 🙂 I hope you’ve enjoyed the coverage of the Starbird-Devlin show this week!
This week Royboy tells the tale of the 2015 Starbird-Devlin show in Wichita then has his mentor Doug Reed on to talk about 50 years of customs, photography, videography and more.
There were over 60 cars contending for the Magnificent 7 this year, which is the biggest group in my memory. To be eligible it has to be the car’s first time showing in the Wichita area, that’s a lot of new rides for any show! You can see the Mag7 cars designated as the ones with the column of balloons next to them. Some of the balloons can be seen in the background of the photo above.
For most of the weekend I was hanging out with the Primary’s crew. They put on the Rumble car show that goes down Sept. 26th this year in Wichita. You can find out more info on their show here. Above is Steve McGregor’s model A, built a long time ago when it would have been called a rat rod, but now that term means something else and the car is classified as a hot rod. This is one of the reasons that people are so confused on what is and isn’t a rat rod, the dang term has changed definitions over the years. I love this car.
Showing at an indoor event is always a bit of a hassle. For those of us that live out of town it adds a degree of difficulty to show at an event like the 2015 Starbird Devlin Show. For me it started Wednesday evening with a 90 mile drive to Wichita to drop off my daily driver in a parking garage. Then Thursday I took off mid morning to get the Galaxie washed and drive her to Century II. By 4pm I had the Galaxie in the show and cleaned up and I was back at work. I even had a few minutes to stop by Deville’s Barber Shop & Shaving Parlor to get myself looking good for the weekend.
