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.
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!
Continue reading “4 Car Show Videos Including Stray Kat 500 and Kustomville USA!”
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!”
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.
Continue reading “2024 Cars For Charities Rod & Custom Show”
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
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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.
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!”
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. Â 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.
Last weekend I attended two events in one day, Roger Linn’s NSRA Appreciation Day and the Okie Sleds Greet With Meat 14!
Back in January I attended and filmed the Kansas Chop Class With Joel Davis where the class chopped a 1950 Mercury. The class starts on Friday evening and goes through Sunday evening so I broke the videos up into Friday, Saturday and Sunday. See the three videos below!
I wasn’t able to take my ride this year but there was no way that I was missing the Stray Kat 500. The show goes down the first full weekend each May in Dewey, OK, and it’s become one of my can’t miss events. You’ll see everything from patina hot rods to Ridler winners at this show (this year was the first time a Ridler winner showed up 🙂  ) and it’s all about a laid back good time with great people who own cool cars.
If you’re tired of going and sitting at a car show, try a Rumble! Challenge another group of car buddies from another city to meet you at a town halfway in between, whichever city brings the most rides wins!
Continue reading “The El DoRodders Rumble with the Over The Road Gang!”
I wasn’t sure this one was gonna happen for me. The forecast for the two weeks above the show was gloomy. It just wouldn’t clear up! Then on the Thursday before the show an ice storm covered most of Oklahoma and North Texas while it dumped snow on me in Kansas. It was not looking good for leaving Thursday after work so that I could get to the Reliability Run on Friday.
A video I shot a few years ago telling the story of Johnny Torres’ 1950 Plymouth. We sat down in his upholstery shop in Hutchinson, KS on a 5degree day and told the story. The car was resurrected from a basically abandoned derelict and built into a ride that’s been back and forth from Kansas to California repeatedly.
I hope you enjoy the video, I have one more done and ready to upload next month and a bunch more shot and awaiting editing!
Continue reading “Royboy Productions Video Feature 5: Johnny Torres’ 1950 Plymouth”
Back in early 2015 I went down to Tulsa, OK and hung out with my friend Doc Parsons and his wife Micah. I shot the video that you’ll see below, it was edited and uploaded to MotorNation as part of an episode of 3 car features. I’ll share the other videos and some more that I’ve shot over the years and haven’t shared yet over the next few months, enjoy!
Continue reading “Rowdy! Video Feature on Doc Parsons’ 23 T Bucket”
Here’s some video from the 2019 SWMO Hot Rod Hundred! Now, if you were a supporter on the Royboy Patreon page you would have seen this yesterday, just a perk that comes to those that help put gas in the tank so that I can make it to the next event.
Sorry for the delay getting this out! Below you’ll find the video coverage I shot at the 2018 Hot Rod Hill Climb, enjoy!
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See you at a show,
Royboy
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I’ve been sitting on this footage for awhile, well since the two events themselves. But I knew a day like this would come when I needed to have something in my back pocket. The problem was I never got around to combining the footage into two videos until now. So, sorry for the late post today but I’ve been waiting for the videos to upload to Youtube so that I could post them here. I hope you enjoy them, I’ve also been working on getting my next Motornation video ready so be on the lookout for that.
Continue reading “Tulsa Starbird and Detroit Autorama Video!”
This kool Caddy first caught my eye a few years ago at the KKOA Leadsled Spectacular in Salina, KS. Since then I’ve seen it repeatedly and even parked next to it in the Kustom City Display this year at the Starbird-Devlin Show in Wichita. I dig it. Every time I take a photo of the car, I dig it more. This car just works for me. So I called up it’s owner and builder Larry James of Flyin Eye Kreations in Wichita, KS and I ran down to his new shop location and we shot this video where he tells a bit of the history of the car. Enjoy!
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See you at a show,
Royboy
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Finally Episode 3 is ready! Changing up the format a bit for this one, I stripped away the intro and just left the feature. Way back in 2012 I shot this video at RynoBuilt’s shop in SW Missouri. Since then the truck was finished, we shot it for a magazine and it was featured as the February 2014 cover on Classic Trucks Magazine (order a copy here).
If you can’t see the video below click here.
Thanks Ryno for letting me shoot the truck for the magazine and for this video! Everyone go follow Ryno on Facebook to keep up to date on what he’s working on.
See Episode 2 on Jeff Myers’ 63 Galaxie here.
See Episode 1 on Jack’s 29 Roadster on 32 frame here.
See you at a show,
Royboy
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A couple of years ago I came up with the idea to do car features in video form. For some of you that have been following for awhile, you’ve seen these before. For the new folks take a few minutes and hopefully enjoy!
The concept is simple, get the car owner on camera telling the story of the ride. Unfortunately it is a time consuming process and time is what I don’t have much of. So…. there are 2 to date. I am planning on releasing a 3rd one next week (a year after I meant to release it). And hopefully more will follow. Feature videos are the perfect way to capture your memories of your favorite ride to remember for the rest of your life and pass on to future generations.
Video 1 If you can’t see the video click here.
Video 2 if you can’t see the video click here.
If you’d like to inquire about having a Feature Video created for your ride, use the contact form here to get a hold of me.
See you at a show.
Royboy