Part 3 of my busy weekend was a Sunday drive down to Lake Afton, west of Wichita, KS. People have told me about this show for years and I’ve never been able to make it until now. A free show for both the spectators and the show vehicles, I had my resevations, but I was proven wrong. A great turnout of every imaginable kind of vehicle and tons of great people.
Although the show officially starts at 11, there were around 100 cars there at 10 when I showed up.
The scene at 10am
The Thunderbird club showed up in full force!
Kevin’s 64 Galaxie for the 2nd day in a row, always good to see you my friend!
The Mini club showed up too!
I want!
A friend has one of these Lotus Elise’s and they are a blast!
The Corvair Club showed up too
1951 Ford Victoria
Johnny’s dope kustom
64 Ford Galaxie 500
Stance
Something tells me it’s as fast as it is pretty
Who doesn’t love a VW?
The truck crowd was in attendance
A lowered early Bronco
John & Butch lining up
This just looks like fun…until you have to shammy the roof
This looks plain fun.
Steve’s bad ass 52 Chevrolet
A Wichita legend, Fundamentals member Doug’s Toad
Johnny’s simple and elegant 58 Chevy kustom
Cameo Cakes’ Divco has a mini me now
Pure speed
Even with 4 doors, Hudsons are kool
Well that’s it for my wild weekend of Kansas Car Show Fun! Hope you had a good time out there, click on any of these photos to see the full photo galleries and I’ll see you at a show.
A few weeks ago I realized that last weekend there was a choice, either stay in KS and go to a show that I’d gone to before (and loved) or venture a few hundred miles from home for the Good Guys show in Loveland, CO. Since I’d been planning on being in Colorado this weekend to film a small BBQ team in competition with the giants of the BBQ world, I decided to stay in Kansas.
So how would I make the weekend special? It didn’t take long to figure it out, 3 shows, 1 weekend… all in Kansas! Saturday started off at a lazy 7:30am as I headed east out of the small town of Gypsum, KS headed for the slightly larger city of Garnett, about 154 miles away.
The show in Garnett is held around the old time town square, these types of shows always have built in cool factor. Click any of these photos to go to the whole photo gallery, I will not be posting every photo here so that’s the best way to see them all.
Nice Ghia!
The show was an interesting mix of muscle cars, trucks, kustoms, hot rods, street rods, motorcycles and even a rat rod along with some stockers and radical customs.
My good friend Neal made the trip in his Canopy Express, seen here on the right.
This well put together Chevy has got to attract bugs like crazy with that shade of yellow!
I’m not sure what the story is on this car, I’m guessing it was shortened from a full or mid sized wagon, anyone have the skinny on it?
Everyone needs one of these VW Trucks
I’ve seen this mild kustom around a couple of the Stray Kat shows but I can’t remember if I’ve met the owner yet. When you meet the owners of the car away from the car sometimes it’s hard to remember who’s face belongs with which car.
Street Rod style post war Ford
Having just picked up a 51 Ford I am naturally drawn to every 49-51 that I see, always looking for ideas.
A very nicely done 80’s era Chevrolet Truck.
A way Kustom truck, lots to see on this wild pickup.
Travel in style
Some of the fairly stock crowd in attendance
Roger Ward’s beautiful ride, Roger won the Inspiration award this year at the Stray Kat 500. Jeff Myers built a killer trophy that was color matched to Roger’s car.
A Pro-Street 57 Chevy
Many cars had taken refuge from the sun under the square’s many trees.
A nicely built Willys
Gasser Style
Gotta love a Starliner
One of the historic buildings that lines the square, probably seen many a summer day with the townsfolk gathered getting to know each other and celebrate holidays and the like.
I love this 46 Ford, and it’s for sale. Click on any of these photos to go to the full gallery and I have the for sale placard pictured with a ton more info for you.
There were 3 nearly identical drag cars in attendance. I never did catch up with an owner to get the story on these.
1 of 50 explains why I’d never come across one before.
One of my favorite vehicles ever produced, I’d love to drive one some day.
Then back out into the sunshine!
Another Street Rod’d beauty
My 2nd wild Cadillac turned truck in 2 weeks… hope this isn’t a resurgent trend!
Another beautiful historic building overlooking the square and the weekend’s activities.
That’s about it for the coverage of the Lake Garnett Cruisers Car Show in Garnett, KS. Hope you enjoyed it! From here I went down to Mulvane, KS for the Showdown In The Valley put on by the Mulvane Marauders. Look for that tomorrow in part 2!
If you see any photos that you’d like to have a copy of, just click on it and you’ll be taken to the gallery where you can buy digital downloads, prints, calendars, posters, etc. Every purchase helps me get to the next show!
This was my 2nd trip to the Park City Chill Bike and Car Show in Park City, KS just outside of Wichita. This is a nice indoor show with plenty to look at.
A few weeks ago Straykatkustoms (Mick) texted me that he was going to go to the National Rod & Custom Hall of Fame Induction Banquet and the announcement of the Fine Nine qualifiers for the Tulsa Starbird show. It took me about 5 minutes to decide that sounded like an interesting way to spend a Friday night and get my ticket ordered. I won’t be missing another one, what a great experience! Tons of great folks were in attendance and we heard some great stories about the inductees, it was very worth it! Continue reading “2012 Starbird Exotic Car Show, Tulsa, OK”
Wow! That’s the basis of my review of my weekend in Austin. Fantastic cars, killer music and most importantly some of the koolest people anywhere made this one of my best weekends all year.
So I realized last night right after my post that there were about 80 or so pics that had not made it to the site yet. Those are in the process of uploading now, along with some fairly mediocre videos that I tried to shoot. I’ll share some of that with everyone later today. Continue reading “Royboy’s coverage of the 2011 Hunnert Car PIleup Part 14-15”
Leading up to last weekend there were lots of murmurs about the new weekend for the Rumble in Delano in Wichita, KS, in it’s 3rd year the show moved to late September from the middle of June. The first 2 years for the show were just plain hot, so it was a welcome change for that reason, however the new weekend falls on the same date as a long running show just 90 miles down the road. Due to some conflicts in my schedule I wasn’t able to hit both shows so after stopping by a local German Car Club show in Salina I went to Wichita for the Rumble and I was not disappointed. Continue reading “2011 Rumble in Delano show coverage and pics! Part 1”
Part 5! With the fun of the Friday Garage Krawl in our memories, it was on to the main event of the Starliner show at the Kansas Aviation Museum. Before I go any further I want to say thanks to yblock292 for not only putting together the Garage Krawl but for hosting me for the weekend. I had an absolute blast hanging out and talking hotrods and kustoms with ya!
On to the show!
I was lucky enough to hang out with some of the Mulvane Marauders.
Jack’s 40 is just too cool!
Aaron of Fast AL’s Upholstery taking a shot of his car
Gotcha again Twotallokie!
Zombie Speed Shop, it’s always good to see the truck…oh okay and you too.
I think I need one of these!
The boys from Iron Buffalo Hot Rods brought out their toys… but no bull this time…
I love this ride and I need to do a feature on it for my site, I’d better get on that soon!
Part 6
Hey Jimmy…about your wheels….
sorry, I just can’t help myself…
My buddy Michael brought his awesome 40 Ford Truck out, I got to see it under construction, it’s awesome to see it finished.
Finkd (Jeff Myers) brought out his Stude pickup, I never get tired of seeing this ride.
Hub Harness brought out his beautiful Buick, this is my favorite kustom. Sorry to anyone that might get their feelings hurt but I just love this ride.
Okay, back to the day job! Thanks for checking out the pics folks, remember if any of them look cool to you, you can buy downloads as cheaply as $2 and prints start for just a couple of bucks more. Every purchase helps put gas in the car to get to the next show, or buy more camera equipment to provide you all better coverage so please consider it!
