Hot Rods and Kustom Cars
November 14, 2015 was a bit later than we normally got together for the Stray Kat Feed but it worked out pretty darn good. Adding to the hot dogs and chili and tons of great desserts that are on tap for the feed each year, this year TwoTall added a swap meet. Lots to do in the two blocks of Dewey, OK where the Feed is held. Enjoy the photos.
For 4 years now I’ve spent the first Saturday of November hanging out with my Stray Kat Kustoms Family at the Stray Kat Feed. We had folks from 5 states show up this year for some sloppy joes, hot dogs, chili and more.
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Starting with some more of the pinup contest…
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After the Pinup contest it was time to surprise Dragdaddy with his truck. TwoTall had “borrowed” Dragdaddy’s truck about a year ago and taken it from a rusty pile of steel that was once a truck into a running driving machine. With a S10 frame, V8, and a bunch of other donated goodies, it was a whole new beast. (if the video below doesn’t appear, click here to see it.)
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Saturday was a busy day, between over 600 cars, a pinup contest, a wedding and some special events throughout the afternoon.
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Saturday was a busy day, between over 600 cars, a pinup contest, a wedding and some special events throughout the afternoon.
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Continuing with the Saturday photos!
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The photos from Saturday start here:
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Thursday evening we rolled Southeast from the Salina, KS area headed for Bartlesville, OK. Our goal was to get to town for the Stray Kat 500! A couple of hours later I led the 3 car caravan into our hotel, some dinner and chatting with friends and it was time to crash out.
Friday Morning we went to the host hotel to check in and gather up for a cruise about 60 miles east over to Darryl Starbird’s Rod & Custom Museum near Afton, OK. Here are some photo the day.
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One of my favorite shows of the year each and every year is the Stray Kat 500. It goes down the first weekend of May in Dewey, OK. Go here for more information. Here are some of my favorite photos from last year.
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Apparently, I can’t read a map very well. You see, Dewey, OK is not really on the way from Joplin, MO to Salina, KS by any logical means, yet I seem to keep finding myself there on that particular journey. Dewey is Stray Kat Kustoms central, and I enjoy spending some time with my Stray Kat brethren there. One of them is Aaron Lawrence, the AL in Fast AL’s Upholstery. Aaron has been really skyrocketing lately as an upholsterer, and it’s been fun to watch a buddy really find his stride and just kick butt. Every time that I get myself down to Dewey I find one or two new rides in Aaron’s shop getting full on kustom interiors. He just finished the beautiful 58 Edsel Wagon that I showed you last week as part of the 2014 Starbird-Devlin show coverage and he already has 2 more under construction.
So I pulled out the iPhone and shot some quick images as we sat around and talked. Aaron is in the middle of an expansion on his shop so that he can move some of the operation to a separate room. The new space will add and office and an indoor space to hang out as well moving some of the dirtier work out of the same space that the cars are in. This should save some cleaning time on the cars and less moving cars in and out as they are being worked on. I’m looking forward to seeing the future for Fast AL’s, every car I see just keeps getting better and better.
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Pinstriper Lizzie pulling some lines on some of the many pieces that were getting worked on in the back of the shop.
Some of my friends enjoying the free food
Myself and Aaron Lawrence of Fast AL’s Upholstery, photo by Hot Rod Dan. (man I need a new hat!)
My new Stray Kat Kustoms Jacket. Well, my year old jacket with new SKK embroidery 🙂
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I took all of the calendars with me to Dewey as I usually have a bunch of folks that pre-order them and then pick them up in Dewey. This year A LOT of people bought on the spot in Dewey. This weekend alone 48 sold, in the previous 3 weeks of online pre-sales 72 were sold, so this was a huge 1 day jump. As of right now there are 11 Kustoms editions left, 19 Hot Rods, 28 Trucks, 7 Stray Kat Kustoms and 28 Greaserama. That’s it, when they are gone, they are gone! The pre-orders started shipping yesterday with another batch going out today. Shipping costs are more than I predicted but I will cover the envelopes/boxes/labels out of my pocket to make sure as much of the money goes to the charities as possible.
I also had a friend from Texas ask about doing a special edition calendar for his group to sell, if that happens and if they are open for any of you to buy a copy I will let you know so that you can see them and have a chance at those. If you would like a special edition calendar made of any 24 of the photos in the over 40,000 photo library of Royboy Productions, let me know. For 100 Calendars it’s only $700 plus shipping to your door. You can sell them at $10 and raise money for a charity, or whatever cause you’d like. Send me a message here for more info.
See you at a show.
Royboy
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The first time I went to the Feed it was just about the last event of the year, this time I have 5 events after the Feed including my own Mid Decembrrrr Run. This coming weekend is the first of 2 trips to Texas this month, plus one to Denver on Thanksgiving weekend.
The Stray Kat Feed this year attracted its normal group from as far away as Arkansas and us from central Kansas, a bunch showed up from Tulsa that I don’t remember seeing before.
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Saturday started early after a late night partying then making calendars until 5am. All of the calendars got finished and I got 2 hours of sleep before it was time to load up and head for Dewey for the Stray Kat Feed. Now as I write this (Sunday evening) I’m still exhausted but it was so very worth it!
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Royboy
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Every year on the first weekend of November a bunch of folks gather in Dewey, OK the home of the Stray Kat 500 for the Stray Kat Feed. The street is blocked off and we shove as many hot rods and kustoms into the blocked off street as we can and enjoy a potluck style lunch. It’s a great way to gather one last time for the year with the rest of the rod/kustom family and get some quality time together before the weather turns cold.
Here are some cell phone photos from the day, more from the big camera will come tomorrow after I get home. Hope you have had a great weekend!
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On the way home from Lamar, MO last weekend I took a detour to go visit my buddy Aaron at Fast AL’s Upholstery in Dewey, OK. Aaron recently had his Open House which marked his 1st year anniversary going full time from his shop. Aaron has had a constant stream of kool rides through the shop in that time and he has them lined up for the foreseeable future due to his reasonable prices and excellent work.
Here are some photos of an incredible 32 that Fast AL’s has in shop right now.
Aaron explaining the seat to Mickey
Sneak peek of the car. I hope to shoot more of it soon so not too much for now.
The start of the trunk panels
Next to the 32 is a 30 A on 32 rails that Aaron is working on for himself.
Headliner is in, lots of other work going on here too.
See you at a show,
Royboy
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Jerry and Cynthia’s 1936 Ford (I just shot a feature on it for a magazine, this is one incredible ride!)
Good to finally meet ya Dick!
StrayKatKustoms’ Merc
Harry & Louise are road warriors
This was a new-to-me kustom
StrayKatKustoms’ new daily driver, his own old 60 Chevy
Dan Greenburg shooting Shawn Mundy’s wild pickup
Doc Parson’s T (I have another version of this that I’m working on)
Dr. Dave out for a cruise 
JD grabbing a snapshot.
Jennifer James of 232 Studios capturing the Toad
That darned Duke got nabbed
Krobe being Krobe
Hiya Dan Greenburg!
Fast AL’s Upholstery’s award
Awards!
Uh what?
Congrats Kevin!
A pair of kats.
My Galaxie (she needs to come down 2 more inches I’m thinking)
Headed home
Great clouds, with this strange fireball in the sky behind them.
The Sun finally came out 50 miles from home
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Thanks for following along in my adventures, see you at a show,
Travis
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Laid out bug
This has been for sale for a long time, the price is right at $12,500, wish I had it.
See ya Neal, thanks for hanging out with us!
One hot shoebox. Wocka wocka
Glad to see ya, hopefully next time I can see the hubby as well.
The other Monkey-mobile
The man of honor doing his thang
A bunch of stripers decided to spruce up TwoTall’s door.
Nice Merc
Aaron of Fast AL’s Upholstery and W.L. Martin (local long time kustomizer)
Fresh art
Exactly
Mickey’s other ride, soon to be the daily driver.
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That’s it for Saturday’s photos. Sunday photos tomorrow!
See you at a show,
Travis
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Love this Merc.
Dr. Dave’s Merc and Bret’s pickup
A barn find, I sure hope he leaves it exactly like it is.
Jeb and Clint brought these two out to play. I believe that Jeb said his “Nadine” (seen on the left) has about 240,000 miles on her.
StrayKatKustoms (Mickey) and 49Toad (Doug Reed) having a talk while walking down the middle of the street.
Pinup Contest Time! Jennifer James of 232 Studios did a great job getting 12 lovely ladies lined up for the Miss Kitty Title. Click on the images to see them all in my galleries, I’ll only show a couple here due to the 20 image limit per post.
Then it was off to the warmth of the VFW so we could honor Ron Myers with the Inspiration Award. Thanks Ron for your decades (and I mean a crapload of them) of time and effort into striping everything that you can get lines on.
Mickey and Mr. C saying some words about our favorite curmudgeon.
He’s trying to look like he doesn’t want out of the spotlight.
A whole bunch of kool kats shipped this panel back and forth across the country to get a chance to pull some lines in honor of Ron. This piece is kool!
Enough mushy stuff back to the steel!
I just shot this for an article in a magazine, Jerry’s 36 is too kool.
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Saturday Morning!
Neal stopping to say hi to Duke on the way in.
Dick’s Chevy looking good (another version of this one will be up tonight)
The Toad looking right at home in the moisture.
Nice looking shoebox rolling down the street.
Krobe’s Chevy (another photo with an updated version on the way)
Daddyo54 and Sam drove the 58 (formerly McPhail’s) up from Denison, TX.
Doc Parsons and his lovely lady pulling into the show.
Sweet Nadine
Jeff Myers’ 63 Galaxie Boxtop Kustom
Hot Rod Dan and LP
Harry & Louise rolled in her killer Chevy Kustom
This one was new to me, and took home an award on Sunday
Just right
Ryno’s Unibody Ford
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That’s it for this post, see you at a show,
Travis
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Later on Friday we went to TwoTall Okie’s shop and Rod’s shop in Dewey for the feed. Thanks to all involved for a chance to hang out and for the free food!
Ron Myers hanging with Mike and Jerry at TwoTalls
Doc’s T, Jerry’s 36 and Krobe’s Coupe hanging out in front of the shop.
Dick’s Chevy looked great!
Mike’s Chevy Truck
Kevin’s 64 Galaxie
Here’s an example of some of the editing that I sometimes do. Let me know if you’d like one of these photographs with something extra done to it. Here’s the original
And here’s the edited version
Bill’s 63 Galaxie Convertible
Krobe’s Coupe and Aaron of Fast A.L.’s Upholstery’s Ford.
Dustin’s Merc
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Next up Saturday in the rain!
See you at a show,
Travis
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While the weather wasn’t wonderful, it takes more than that to ruin the Stray Kat 500. The trip started off for my dad and I on Thursday afternoon. My Galaxie was still at Chaotic Customs after getting a long standing vibration issue fixed so the first leg of the trip was riding shotgun in my Dad’s 57 Chevy Wagon on the way to CC in Mulvane, KS.
That’s it for this first post, next up a couple of shot from the Friday evening hang out/free feed at TwoTall Okie’s shop. Click on any of these photos to see the entire gallery. If you’d like one as a print, just use the “Buy” button there and I will go through the photo and touch it up to look it’s best before it’s printed and shipped to you.
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See you at a show,
Travis
So I’ve talked a few times about the Stray Kat 500 coming up next weekend in Dewey, OK. And here’s another time 🙂 Just some photos from last year with a bit of extra editing. Click on any of these to see the entire show gallery.
What do you think, do you like Doc’s T in B&W?
What about color?
What about a bit of both?
Kind of an over used effect but I like it on this one.
Micheal’s 40 Ford looks kool no matter what.
Rick’s Model A (the star of the newest Royboy shirt)
See you at a show,
Travis
