The indoor portion of the 2014 Blacktop Nationals is always my favorite part. Not just because of the AC either… Continue reading “2014 Blacktop Nationals Part 2”
2014 Blacktop Nationals Part 2
2014 Blacktop Nationals Part 1
After the trip to Lawrence for the Rev It Up show, I drove on down to Wichita for the 2014 Blacktop Nationals. The show seemed to be a bit smaller this year but some great cars were there. Continue reading “2014 Blacktop Nationals Part 1”
The 4th And Final Post of the 2014 Goodguys Heartland Nationals
2014 Goodguys Heartland Nationals Part 3
2014 Goodguys Heartland Nationals
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2014 Goodguys Heartland Nationals Part 2
There’s A First Time For Everything : 2014 Goodguys Heartland Nationals Part 1
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I’ve heard it for at least 5 years, “The Des Moines Goodguys is the best GG show that there is, you HAVE to go!” Finally I did. Let’s face it, the GG shows held at racetracks all kind of run into each other. The ones at the Kansas Motor Speedway (2012 coverage here, the show has been killed so that’s the latest coverage) and the ones I’ve attended at the Texas Motor Speedway (2014 coverage here) really are all the same in my memories. Lots of cars, lots of people, but no real atmosphere. So you get to drive your car around the track, okay that part is cool, but other than that the cars are basically just parked as if they are in a parking lot. As a spectator and especially as a photographer, that’s boring.
So this year it was time to finally make the trip up to Des Moines to see if this party still is the best GG party around. Of course due to some poor planning on my part the 6 hour trip northeast started with a 90 minute drive south. It’s a long story, but the short version is we had a long day. First we headed south to Park City, KS to see a small show there, one that we never even got into because traffic was backed up and we didn’t feel like making the day even longer by waiting in line to get in. Along the way we saw a Historical Marker that I’ve driven by for decades and never stopped to look at. It marks the crossing of the Chisholm and Santa Fe Trails. Near here there are a couple of areas where you can still faintly make out where the Santa Fe Trail went thanks to an indention in the ground from the wagon wheels. From there we went east to pick up some newly silk screened coozies from B. Scott Studios and hopped on I-35 towards Des Moines. We pulled onto the turnpike and set the cruise.
After some sight seeing stops at the birthplace of Jesse James outside of Kearney, MO, an Amish “Welcome To Iowa” store just across the border we saw the sign for the Covered Bridges of Madison County. Yup the ones from the movie. I’ve never seen the movie, but it seemed a worthy departure from the interstate. Just off of I-35 is St. Charles, IA and one of the bridges. We stopped, read the signs, took a couple of photos and got word that some friends were going to meet for dinner at the Iowa Beef Steakhouse. It had already been suggested that we head there so we changed the GPS destination and got our taste buds ready.
The company was fantastic, the car crowd was filling the joint and the steak was phenomenal. It was pricey for our budget but not overpriced for the experience. With nothing really planned for the evening we settled into our hotel room and tried to catch some shut eye for Saturday. We were warned that at noon on Friday the window placards were already numbering at over 3200 (I’m not sure if they start at 1 and are sequential or not), so we needed to get there early to see all of the rides. Too bad for us a state sized thunderstorm moved into Des Moines before sunup and didn’t clear out until about 10am.
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2014 NSRA Southwestern Nationals Part 4
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See you at a show,
Royboy
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2014 NSRA Southwestern Nationals Part 3
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See you at a show,
Royboy
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If you want to this blog in your email inbox each time the blog goes live, go on up to the top right hand corner of the website and enter your email address. The last day of each month I randomly pick 1 subscriber to win a prize package.
This month’s prize is a DVD copy of “This Is Long Beach” from Atomic Hot Rods,
a print from artist Ben Dragdaddys and
2 DVDs from Vintage Torque.
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2014 NSRA Southwestern Nationals Part 2
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Continuing with the coverage of the 2014 NSRA Southwestern Nationals held in Oklahoma City, OK at the Oklahoma State Fairgrounds.
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See you at a show,
Royboy
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2014 NSRA Southwestern Nationals Part 1
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It’d been 4 years since I’d been to the NSRA Southwestern Nationals in Oklahoma City, OK. To be 100% honest billet wheeled street rods are not my thing. Some can look great for sure but a set of wheels that cost half what I paid for my car is just something I can’t really relate to at this point in my financial life :). Anyways, the show was big, lots of rides, lots of spectators and lots of wind. The vendor building was usually empty for the amount of spectators, I don’t think that the average spectator had any idea that there were vendors in the building. This is the kind of show that a lot of folks leave their hoods open so they can get judged to get a trophy. As such they leave the cars open like that and look like crap in photos 🙂 Oh well. Folks when your hood is open your car looks like it’s broken down, want a trophy? Go to a trophy store :).
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1 Month Warning: Southwest Street Rod Nationals
Southwest Street Rod Nationals goes down in Oklahoma City, OK at the State Fair Park the weekend of April 11-13, 2014. You can go here for full info on the event weekend.
I’ve only been to this event 1 time, but I do plan on returning this year. Schedule conflicts or just plain monetary conflicts have kept me away since the one trip that I took in 2010, but this year I will make a return… and nobody there will really notice. The show is big, lots of space, lots of street rods, lots of vendors and last time I went not all that many people from my normal circles. One of the koolest parts of the event is when people start to split from the show on Saturday they cause a parade of sorts of most of the cars in the event, so gather up a lawn chair and enjoy the scenery as it rolls by.
Here are some photos from my previous visit to the show.
See you at a show,
Royboy
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Week In Review: 1-13-14
As this is posted I’m finishing up my 3 hour stint a the day job on Saturday morning. From here I catch a ride with my Dad and my 3 & 5 year old nephews down to Wichita’s Century II where the Starbird-Devlin show is in full swing. The boys and I will check the show out today then they will come home and then my cameras will come out and I’ll get you some photos of the show. Look for those photos to start showing up here tomorrow Sunday the 19th. Here’s what I posted this week so far:
Monday
Royboy Feature Video Episode 3: RynoBuilt’s 1961 Ford Unibody
Tuesday
1 Month Warning: KC World Of Wheels
Wednesday
1 Month Warning: Darryl Starbird’s Tulsa Show
Thursday
2 Month Warning: Goodguys Spring Lonestar Nationals
Friday
Event Coverage: 2014 Starbird-Devlin Move In Day
I’m excited to finally get the 2014 car show season underway! Next weekend I’ll be heading to Ryno Built’s shop to check in on a Merc project that he’s building for a buddy of mine. While we’re there we’ll also build a new transmission crossmember for my Galaxie so that the car can be dropped a couple more inches. So look for a tech article on that, plus the shop visit post from Ryno’s place. From there I’m hoping to hit 2 shops on the way home, 1 private where they’re doing a big time chop and another a pro upholstery shop. Stay tuned for those visits as well. The goal for 2014 is to start doing a lot more car features, more videos, and more of the same coverage that has been viewed over 11.5 million times so far. Buckle up, it’s bound to be a heck of a ride!
See you at a show,
Royboy
Event Coverage: 2013 Goodguys Spring Lonestar Nationals Part 6
Part 6! Final post!
See the other posts here:
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Short one this time but lots of great rides still.
Starting off with a couple of Vettes
This one is just for Dad
This one would look so much better all shut up
This one too but I understand they were showing off a lot of really custom work that.
Mmmmm I want!
Love the small scallops
I’m in love.
A couple of the trucks from Hale’s Speed Shop
That’s it!
See you at a show,
Travis
Event Coverage: 2013 Goodguys Spring Lonestar Nationals Part 5
Part 5
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On the track action!
This car was for sale, and for a reasonable price. Click the photo to go to the full gallery where you should also find the list of details on the car if you are interested.
Bare bones. nothing extra added… at all.. I mean…damn boys!
The Whale!
Great color
Nice Fleetside
Too bad about the hood being open
spoke too soon
Great T from Tulsa
Boyd built
That’s it for Part 5, the final part 6 tomorrow.
See you at a show,
Travis
Event Coverage: 2013 Goodguys Spring Lonestar Nationals Part 4
Event Coverage: 2013 Goodguys Spring Lonestar Nationals Part 3
Event Coverage: 2013 Goodguys Spring Lonestar Nationals Part 3
Jeff’s Galaxie
This one had my dad drooling
Rivi’s are too kool, I need one of these too.
It would look so much better with the hood shut
Again…shut the hood and trunk!
Stance.
I really want to add a Thunderbird (Bullet years) to my collection
Love this shoebox with the Olds grill, it’s for sale. My birthday is coming… just sayin…
Got Milk?
That’s it for part 3, as always, click any photo to see the entire gallery, as not all of the photos are in these posts!
See you at a show,
Travis
Event Coverage: 2013 Goodguys Spring Lone Star Nationals Part 2
Event Coverage: 2013 Goodguys Spring Lone Star Nationals Part 2
I’m kinda getting to where I dig these body style trucks more and more.
This gives you some idea of the crowd alllllll day long. It was difficult to take photos because of the crowd, but that’s a good thing. A big crowd means more people that might be inspired to go home and build something of their own.
That’s it for part 2, See you at a show,
Travis
Event Coverage: 2013 Goodguys Spring Lonestar Nationals Part 1
This weekend I went down to Texas Motor Speedway for the Goodguys Spring Lone Star Nationals. See the other posts here:
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 Full Gallery
We had a great location for watching the vehicles coming and going.
Loved this kool 36
Fantastic flames
I need one
and one of these.
Who wants to buy 200,000 shirts so I can get a new mobile home like this?
Last time I was at this show I shot a couple of photos of this car, before I got home it had suffered some intense damage in an accident on the freeway. It’s good to see it back to life and looking good.
Too much patina?
On my wishlist
$8500 is not a horrible price for this almost there hotrod.
Great looking business coupe
Nice work by Hatfield Restorations
More to come tomorrow! Click any of the photos to go to the entire gallery.
See you at a show,
Travis
Heading back to Texas this weekend…
Well, it’s been a whole week since I’ve been to Texas so it’s about time to head back. This time it’s a trip down to Texas Motor Speedway for the Goodguys 3rd Spring Lone Star Nationals. The show goes down March 15-17 so get yourself out there and check it out. Here are some photos from my last trip down to this show two years ago for the first one.
My buddy Jeff’s ride, shooting it soon for a feature. 
Check out the entire gallery as a slide show below or click on any of the photos above to see the entire set.
See you at a show,
Travis