Although the show was smaller than many I attend I was blessed with the opportunity to spend some time talking to some folks that I don’t get to see often enough or when we do we’re in such big crowds that we don’t have time to talk. Lamar presented plenty of time to talk.
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Bill Moore’s Merc.
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You don’t see this body style often.
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AJ Foyt on the side panel, I don’t know if it’s an actual Foyt car or a replica but it’s kool as hell regardless.
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Bill Moore just before he caught me taking his pic.
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Friday night I arrived at the Super 8 hotel expecting something on par with my last Super 8 experience, in which I left a pre-paid room because it skeeved me out so badly. I found this was not the case, a great hotel that looks to be just a couple of years old, very clean, friendly staff and they even hooked us all up with some hot dogs, chili and nachos for free for a Friday evening B.S. session.
I spent most of the evening with friends old and new talking kustoms and car shows, I was told stories of the way things used to be and I longed to be there. Saturday morning I woke at 5am to a thunderstorm rolling through, I rolled over and promptly went back to sleep. Around 8am I woke up, enjoyed the free biscuits and gravy and then headed for the car wash and the show. $10 entry fee at the gate and I was into one of the smallest yet koolest shows that I have seen. Great atmostphere, kool rides, and some great people, it was a good day.
This Merc is one of many that I’ve seen lately that originally was a 4 door.
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Mundy’s 58 Pontiac Wagon
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Mike Patterson’s Merc
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Great looking Merc, not as popular a body style as the 49-51 but still cool.
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There were some nice hot rods there too.
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Dick’s Chevy is just so simple and I dig the hell out of it.
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Jack Walker’s 59 Chevy
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Krobe brought “Blue” over from Stray Kat-Land
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Nice car. The dog thing… I can do without, at least it wasn’t a crybaby leaning on a bumper… I would have punted that.
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Another Merc body style that you don’t see as often but still can be damn kool.
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Good looking Shoebox.
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A few months ago I received an invitation in the mail to a show with a funny name, the Ol Geezers Car Show in Lamar, MO. I hadn’t heard of the show before, hell I hadn’t heard of Lamar, MO before and the show was on the same date as the 2nd Iron Invasion and I already had a room booked for that show so I set the post card aside and made a note to promote the show but I was going to Iron Invasion.
Then came the KKOA Leadsled Spectacular weekend. talking to some friends that said they were going to the show with the funny name in the town I’d never heard of got me to thinking. 1st I am good friends with John Wells promoter of Iron Invasion, and I said I would be there… but so would a handful of other photographers. A couple of which would be trying to sell photos to the same magazines as I would be. 2nd, Iron Invasion is a good 11 hour drive from my home, Lamar is 4.5. Iron Invasion was a good time last year, but this was a new show to me, and some very respected kustom guys were going to Lamar. I made a gut call and changed my plans.
I’m glad I did. Now, I do wish I could have been at Iron Invasion, I HATE that I missed it, but I got to spend some invaluable time with a couple of folks this weekend that really was amazing. Sitting and talking kustoms, car shows, shenanigans and more I realized that these little moments in the host hotel parking lots are the ones that mean something. I made new friends this weekend with people that have combined 100+ years of kustom car building and driving. These are good folks to have amongst your friends, they’ve made the mistakes you’re about to make and may help you survive when you make the same mistakes that they have.
Enough of the touchy feely stuff, here’s some photos!
There were so many kool rides at the Ol Geezer show that Wyatt Earp came back to his one time home of Lamar, MO to see them.
Yet another shot of my car.
My buddy Don TooTall Wallin made the 11 1/2 hour trip down to Lamar to hang out with some kustom folks. Don’s car has been shot for a magazine feature by our mutual friend and occasional guest blogger here Dan Podobinski of Dan’s Hot Rod Photo. This car burned to the ground on the side of a road 6 years ago, it’s been a long journey back to life but I think you’ll agree it was a success.
The show had a nice selection of kustoms, cruisers, hot rods, a couple of muscle cars, trucks and handful of classic rides.
After a quick run out to Russell, KS to check out the Flatland Car Show earlier in the day I headed 90 miles east to Abilene, KS to see friends and family at the Chisholm Trail Days event. This is a small event as far as the car show goes, I didn’t have time to cover the Antique Tractor show but it looked well packed with restored tractors of yesteryear.
See you at a show,
Royboy
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Originally I had planned to take this weekend off, I’ve been going strong every weekend since Mid August so I planned a break this weekend. No such luck. Friday night I made the short trip down to Johnny Torres Upholstery’s Open House in Hutchinson, Saturday morning I started with 3 hours at the day job it was off to Russell, KS for the Flatlands Car Show.
The brick streets and many older buildings lend themselves perfect a great looking show.
That’s it for today, 1 more post from Russell, and its off to Abilene for the Chisholm Trail days.
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I’ve known Johnny Torres for a few years now, so when he invited me down to the Open House at his Johnny Torres Upholstery at 915 S. Main in Hutchinson, KS of course I was going to make the trip. I’ve watched his car go from primered and just on the road to finished kustom, it’s been a fun ride. He has been doing kustom upholstery work for a while now both here and occasionally out in CA when he goes out to visit his Beatnik brethren. I’ve captioned the photos so they should tell the story.
The scene outside of Johnny Torres Upholstery for the Open HouseThe scene outside of Johnny Torres Upholstery for the Open House1964 Galaxie outside of Johnny Torres Upholstery for the Open HouseThe scene outside of Johnny Torres Upholstery for the Open HouseRoy Fields’ 49 Ford outside of Johnny Torres Upholstery for the Open HouseJohnny’s Plymouth outside of Johnny Torres Upholstery for the Open HouseJohnny’s 41 Chevy outside of Johnny Torres Upholstery for the Open HouseInside Johnny’s shopA clean 32 Sedan sitting outsideThe scene outside of Johnny Torres Upholstery for the Open HouseThe scene outside of Johnny Torres Upholstery for the Open HouseBeatniks 20 Year Plaque
While hanging out I ran into one of Johnny’s friends Roy Field who along with his brother Justin and dad have a shop space across the street about a block up from Johnny’s place. Roy has a beautiful 49 Ford that you see above, and has a Bonneville car and they’re working on a dragster and his dad was KKOA member #6. Roy invited me over to see the shop and bit of his dad’s automobilia collection.
KKOA #6, he’s been in this from way back in the day.I’ve seen the car around for years it was great to finally meet the owner.A serious collection.Roy’s been backwards and out of control faster than I’ve been forwards.A project Roy says he started on when he was 14, I hope to see it done someday.Roy’s brother Justin is building a new body on Roy’s dragster that he bought from Rick McGregor.Pretty stylish.Another project and tons of signage.He called himself a hoarder, not that it makes you a bad person.The Bonneville car, new engine on the way hoping to improve on the previous 220mph effort.Kinda giving me the jones to head out to the salt next year.It’s a good looking machine, the new body is making it even better looking.Bird’s eye viewYou don’t see these too often, out of a fire truck its a v12 GMC
Here’s where I apologize, I tried a new lens hand held in this low light and the results were less than stellar. I shot maybe 30 more photos and none of them came out, I will not be using that lens in this situation again.
Today I’m off to shoot 2 small town Kansas shows, tomorrow the coverage from those shows will start, early next week expect to see the first drafts of the 2014 Calendar for Charity!
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From time to time when I cannot make an event I’m asking some friends to write up a piece and take some photos at the event so I can share them with you. This time it’s everyone’s buddy Nick Hoesing who along with some other die hards drove 2800 miles round trip from Omaha, NE to Baltimore, MD for the 2013 Rodder’s Journal Revival. Follow Nick on Instagram here. Enjoy! – Royboy
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The 2013 Rodder’s Journal Revival was one of the best road trips I’ve ever been on. Jason Holland and I left Omaha, Nebraska, on the Tuesday before the event and met up with Dave Gray and Kirk Hanning the next evening in Ohio. We arrived in Baltimore on Thursday afternoon at the Fells Point kick-off party. We were immediately greeted and welcomed to the East Coast with open arms. The whole event seemed to be laid back, well organized, and trouble-free. Friday morning’s cruise up to Havre de Grace was a very scenic tour through some of the Maryland countryside. Friday evening’s low light photo session gathering at the Pimlico show venue produced a great sampling of the type of cars we’d see more of throughout the weekend. Saturday and Sunday at the Revival were two great days full of live music, incredible cars, friendly people, great weather, and the perfect setting for this type of event. We headed towards home on Sunday afternoon and arrived back on Tuesday afternoon, without any major issues. It was a great week on the road and I definitely want to make the trip out East again next year.
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When the show was started it was in June and ran from 4p-10p, now that it’s in September, the show ends up at 8pm after the pinup contest and the awards. Perfect timing to head to my favorite pizza joint in Wichita then head to the after party. I had a really good time and I will be back next year.
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Nice bike!
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Some of the ladies of the pinup contest.
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And then it was just me and my ride. Time to go grab a bite to eat and head to the after party.
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Soooo, I got a lot of photos of my lady friends on stage and a few more with them next to some cars. Who can blame me, really? They were nice enough to walk around with me after their performance and pose by some cars and I am not stupid, pretty girl + kool car = WIN!
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Here’s the trophy table, all kool hand made trophies, because those mean more.
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Happy Birthday Steve!
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Kool kid hauler!
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The hosts of the show.
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Gimlet wanted to be the one to stand next to McPhail’s 41.
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Compromise
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The girls posed for a couple of photos with Joe’s white truck last year, so we had to shoot with his 40 Ford too.
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We were kinda running up against the clock so I didn’t have time to run back to the car and grab flashes or reflectors, damn.
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With the girls gone, and all of the guys focusing back on talking cars now, it was back to shooting car show coverage photos. How kool is this?
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One of 3 Galaxies at the show.
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Some will call this a rat, I just say its unrefined.
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Another kool truck that I see all over the place.
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There was a lot of orange at the show, and all of it was well done. Some great quality paint work.
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Not too many bikes at the show, I could definitely use more of the style that showed up.
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Larry James’ Caddy
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Okay, I need this.
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Again with Elvis’ Caddy? Yeah again.
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Its a good time seeing this truck launch at the drag strip.
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Primary’s members cars.
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The Go Away Garage hosted a panel jam with some heavy hitters around the table. Lots of kool art was created.
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The show started at 1pm after some morning weather, that may have scared some folks off, but the die hards still came and were rewarded with perfect fall weather. From the time I rolled in at 1pm until leaving at 8pm it was perfection. The stage for the bands, pinup contest and awards was setup under the Kellogg flyover, and surrounded by cars as I rolled in. Later cars filled the adjacent parking lot, there was room in those two areas for 30 or so more cars as things were set up, and room up the street for a ton more as the show grows.
This ride is a regular at cruise night up in Salina, there will be more info on it coming, stay tuned 🙂
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Something about this ride I really dig, maybe it’s the attention getting paint, maybe it’s the pie cut slicks, maybe it’s a lot of stuff.
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So much style in the Pontiacs
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Simple recipe, and it works.
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Ooops I thought I had another shot of this truck without people walking almost in front of it. That’s the risk I take when shooting from so far away at a car show.
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Like I said yesterday, I see Jason and his truck everywhere and I cant stop taking photos of it.
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Nice looking roadster.
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Another simple recipe with great results.
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I think I should shoot a feature on it, and get the skinny on all of the details for you, what do you think?
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So much cleaner without the handles and the factory turn signals.
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I’ve shot dozens of photos of Joe’s Caddy over the years. I shouldn’t love it so much but I do, and I don’t care who knows.
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Matt’s roadster is just too kool.
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Hey that’s not a traditional hot rod or kustom! Yeah… I know. It’s my site I make the rules.
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Cassie’s 57
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Oh sweet Nadine. For most of you, your ride wishes it had this many miles and was still kickin.
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Chad Ward was busy painting off the tailgate of his ride.
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My buddy Elvis’ Caddy, yes he knows his tire is going flat.
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A couple of my favorite Dirty Martinis entertaining the crowd with song and dance.
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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.
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.
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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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Sooooo Nice
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I stopped in to see the guys from Affordable Street Rods, this beautiful roadster is theirs and is just plain awesome.
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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.
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I see the Spiwak’s about everywhere I go and it’s never a bad thing.
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A touch too much.
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I’m not normally a Camaro guy but this one was very nice.
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I’ve always liked this 40
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Fresh back from the Hot Rod Hill Climb
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Nice scallops
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That’s a heck of a stretch job!
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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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It’s neighbor wasn’t too shabby either!
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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?
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Bryce, lookie here my friend.
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You cannot go wrong with a Rivi
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A very nice Anglia
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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.
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.
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My dad’s 59 Thunderbird and our extended “family’s” cars behind it.
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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!
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Rick’s 57 has every option that you might want for a kool road trip cruiser and will look good while doing it.
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Roger Ward’s car has looked this good for a long long time and gets driven.
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Pretty good stance on this shoebox
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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.
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too bad about the hood.
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3rd or 4th show this summer I’ve run across this group.
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Not normally my style but something about it I liked.
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Keith Bright’s beautiful roadster.
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Some of my Nebraska/Kansas line friends
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I’ve shot Bill’s “Sledsel” for a magazine feature.
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A nice adaptation of an American Graffiti style build.
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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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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.
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My friend’s beautiful 39.
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Neal’s Canopy Express GMC
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Former dirt track racer, turned 60’s show rod. Good to see it driving!
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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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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.
Aaron sitting in his new roadster.Aaron sitting in his new roadster.
Congrats on 1 year Aaron, and all my best for another great year!
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!
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.
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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 🙂
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
Texas Thaw – Vintage Drag Racing and car show, all the proceeds go to a great cause. What better way to kick off March but to head to North Texas for some drag racing?
Lonestar Roundup – 1st weekend of April – Austin, TX
Lonestar Roundup – This is one of the bigger shows on the list. 2013 saw a reported 1700 vehicles, I’d say 75% were traditional hot rods and kustoms of many different flavors. Add to that a great garage crawl on Friday morning, and Austin’s fantastic food and music. It’s hard to go wrong with the Lonestar Roundup in your travel plans. Here’s the gallery and here is Part 1 of the coverage on the blog.
Stray Kat 500 – 1st full weekend of May – Dewey, OK
Stray Kat 500 – Full Disclosure, this is the flagship Stray Kat Kustoms event and I am very blessed to be a member of the Stray Kat Kustoms Family.
H.A.M.B. Drags – 3rd weekend of August – MO-KAN Dragway
H.A.M.B Drags – I’ve been attending the H.A.M.B. Drags for a few years, and I’ve never had a bad time. I’ve nearly had heat stroke but never a bad time.
Starliner – Much like the Stray Kat 500 this one is easily amongst my very favorite shows. The people, the brotherhood, the planes, the Garage Krawl, there is just no end to what’s to love about this show.
Iron Invasion – 2nd weekend of Oct. – Woodstock, IL
Iron Invasion – 2012 was the first year of the 2nd show that Vintage Torque puts on. It was a long drive, it was cold and about 750 cars showed up, it was a blast.
PUT THESE SHOWS ON YOUR SCHEDULE! If you’re into traditional hot rods and kustoms these are shows that you need to be attending in the Midwest. There are some more that I hope to be attending in the next couple of years and we’ll add to this list.
These shows are ones that I have attended multiple times and I’ve enjoyed myself every time. There are another 10 or so that could be on this list but this is MY absolute favorite list, these are the ones that I have had the best times at. Your mileage may vary.
The family that hangs out at the cars show together…is kool.
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Mickey’s Merc
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15 shot HDR Panoramic of the show
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One of the stars of the show. Micheal’s newly finished 34 5 Window Ford, done in an East Coast style. The 59 Olds steering wheel is the only part on the car newer than 53.
Larry Wolfe recently brought this late 60’s Dave Stuckey creation back home to Wichita. Plans are to return it to it’s 1967 state. Back in the day Stuckey used this wild sectioned 1965 Pontiac Catalina to tow his Top Fuel Drag car. I reallly wish I could have been around to see that rolling down the road.
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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Joe brought this beauty out for us all to drool over.
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I caught Jack unloading some chairs out of the trunk of his new 51 Ford. Body, Paint and a bunch more stuff by Chaotic Customs.
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One of my favorite new rides of 2013 is Butch’s 40 Sedan.
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It still rocks a straight 6 but Steve’s 58 Ford moves on down the road and looks good doing it.
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All the way from Omaha, NE to Wichita to hang with us. Thanks for coming down!
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The Merc grille looks good with the 51 Ford turn signal housings.
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Good to see you again my friend, 2 weeks in a row even!
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Mickey’s Merc always looks good at the Starliner.
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Joe’s Caddy is a ton of fun, maybe 2 tons looking at her…
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Don’s Buick is probably one of the finest anywhere.
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Some of my favorite Kansas City area folks.
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Jeff and Verna brought this killer Plymouth hot rod up from Texas. I am planning on shooting this car this fall. If no magazines bite on the article, I’ll post it here for all of you to see.
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One of the koolest places ever to hold a car show, even though this year it was quite hot.
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Another shot of Steve’s chopped 40 Ford. Again, 300,000 miles on it and he’s owned it since 1969.
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Friends and family.
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I’ve seen this truck in Austin and a bunch of other places, I dig it every time.
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Normally not my style but the nose art on the truck matches in with the location.
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The McGregors, an American Car Family.
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Hub and Gloria’s “Cinnamon” is my favorite kustom ever. It’s been together since the late 80’s. It’s been in magazines before but would you like to see a full feature on it here?
Jeff Myers of Premier Body & Paint brought out the 59 El Camino, Johnny Torres brought out his 41 Plymouth, and you can’t see it here, but Jim Allen brought out his “Corn Cobb Coupe”
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