Event Coverage: 2013 Greaserama Part 4

I’ve seen this car for years and it floors me every time.

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Good to see you my friend, and I still say using air to be able to clean your entire whitewall at once is cheating…

Good looking Chevy

The owner said it’s not finished but it looked damn good to me!

Punk Rod Eric surveying all that was 2013 Greaserama.

Punk Rod Eric overlooking all that is 2013 Greaserama. Good work to all of Los Punk Rodders, you put on another great show! — Click the photo to purchase a print anywhere from 4×6 up to poster size!

Lots of good looking shoeboxes at the show this year.

To see the entire gallery click here.

See you at a show,

Royboy

September 4, 2013December 13, 2013

Event Coverage: 2013 Greaserama Part 3

That’s a lot of years on the Power Tour! Kickass!

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I’ve been seeing this truck for years, I really should do a feature on it on the site.

Good to see you and the family Don, see ya in Wichita this weekend!

Jeremy Barrett’s pickup.

When you can’t find a v12, two v6’s will do the trick!

Interesting hard top chop. I never made it over to investigate further, but I wish I would have.

Can’t wait to see this one done!

The flush mount skirts, the lake pipes, the spots, it’s all working for me.

See I told you if I got down low you couldn’t tell that the other half of the car wasn’t shammied… oops.

I keep seeing this car this summer but I haven’t had a chance to BS with the owner yet.

Jebby’s “Nadine” and the tail end of my Galaxie. Nadine looks damn good for 200k+ miles.

Neal was nice enough to give me a lift in when I walked out to the entrance to give my dad a wristband. I can’t wait to see the next evolution of this kool truck.

Random Crowd Shot

I’ve been seeing this truck for years at the Greaserama. Looks like a ball of fun.

To see the entire gallery click here.

See you at a show,

Royboy

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September 3, 2013December 13, 2013

Event Coverage: 2013 Greaserama Part 2

For part 2 we’re still on Saturday. The show was big big big this year, I don’t feel that there would have been any way to get all of the cars and especially all of the spectator cars into the area of the old venue. It was pretty impressive to head up on the north hill of the fairgrounds to see all that the 2013 Greaserama was.

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Channeled Tall T, I like!

Clean

My ride, thanks to Jeff Myers at Premier Body & Paint in Arkansas City, KS for the kustom 60’s style paint and Clint Rowe for the pinstriping.

Looking good man!

An iconic recipe for kool

inally got to see my friends from Oliver Built Garage for the first time this year, I need to make more trips up to Iowa.

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Dick’s ride again, with the hood shut as all kustoms should be 😉

I love these two rides.

It’s always good to see my good friends Dan and Sharyl Stears, see ya again next weekend in Wichita!

One of my good friends Todd C. Jones, amazing guy and artist. Look for a feature on him coming soon!

I was hiding from the rain under a canopy, my camera doesn’t like getting wet.

More coming tomorrow!

See you at a show,
Royboy

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September 2, 2013December 13, 2013

Event Coverage: 2013 Greaserama Part 1

Man, what a great weekend! The Greaserama moved this year from it’s long time venue to a new one that was outside of KC, many denounced the move but the crowd that showed up on Saturday proved that change can be good. I’m writing an article for a magazine on the show so I’ll save most of my words of the event for that, here the photos will do the talking.

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My good friend Mike’s 53 Chevy Truck

ick’s Chevy just looks right.

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Interesting hard top chop

Chris’ 60 Ford, looking good!

Some of the Los Punk Rods Rides

Damn I love a long roof

Looking good bro!

Love the new intake Eric!

More for the next 3 days, or you can be impatient and click here to see the entire 212 photo gallery.

See you at a show,
Royboy

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August 31, 2013August 29, 2013

1 Month Warning: KKOA Hotrodding Hullabaloo – Denison, TX

SUPER SIZED POST! FULL OF PHOTOS!

Last year I made my first ever trip to Denison, TX for the KKOA Hotrodding Hullabaloo. Like the KKOA Leadsled Spectacular in Salina, KS the event has some Run What Ya Brung Drags on Friday. The show this year looks to be a great time too, I wish I could make it but the new Sept. 27-29 dates for the show conflicts with another event that I will be attending.

Just down the street and around the corner from the show are my buddies at Atlas Speed & Custom, get ahold of them if you get down to the show, they have a lot of kool going on.

It was unusually chilly in North Texas on the Friday of last year’s show, here are some pics from the Drags held at a local airstrip west of Denison.

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Later that evening I went over to a local watering hole to see my buddies in the band Pushrod rock the house. Waaaaay too early the next morning I was up and at em again and headed over to the park for the show. I was greeted with a bunch of familiar faces from my adventures up here in KS and OK, and a bunch of new to me folks too. The show was small, laid back and really perfect for spending time with friends telling tall tails and talking kustoms.

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Then it was out to dinner with some friends and when I got back to the hotel I couldn’t resist some night shots.

Sunday I went back over to the show to see who was around, quite a few had split town, but there were still some kool rides to be seen.

All in all, I had a damn good time, well worth the 12 hours it took to drive there and back! If not for the previously mentioned scheduling conflict I would be going back this year for sure. If you can make it to the show, get there, enjoy some kool kustoms and hot rods and of course hanging out with each other!

See you at a show,

Royboy

August 22, 2013August 22, 2013

Event Coverage :2013 H.A.M.B. Drags Weekend Part 4

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

Thanks folks for following along with all of the H.A.M.B. Drags coverage.

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

That’s it for the basic coverage of the 2013 H.A.M.B. Drags.

See you at a show,

Royboy

August 21, 2013August 14, 2014

Event Coverage :2013 HAMB Drags Weekend Part 3

Finally we hit the track!

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

Of course my friends from Wichita the McGregors are there, any time you see these sombreros there’s a good time somewhere close by.

Hot Rod Hill Climb and Grandpa’s Hot Rod Booth

Really nice ride

Nick’s roadster is just getting better and better

Model A John’s ride

Some of my Mulvane Marauder friends were in attendance

Of course the Lil Honker, always a favorite.

My buddy John’s barn find gasser

The man, the myth, the traveling legend Bob K!

Butch M’s 56 Chevy Gasser got some new touches

Perfection.

Simple, cool, I want one.

Some of the best curves in the automotive world.

Bill Moore’s “High School Dropout” Merc

This is one of the slickest flatties I’ve ever seen.

Don’s 53 is always looking good.

Another view of Rick’s new shoebox.

Krobe’s fastback fleetline Chevy

There are a couple of shoebox utes in the area, this one has a ton of work in it.

Mike’s bad blue Chevy Truck

Kerry’s rail, I hear tell that about the time I headed for the hotel he pulled a 165 mph run, congrats man!

John and Butch warming up the hides.

That’s it for this HAMB Drags post, 1 more tomorrow and then maybe some special edits on Friday.

Thanks for following along on all of my adventures, remember if there are any photos you’d like to own a copy of for your wall, click on the photo here, and the site will take you to the appropriate page to buy prints. Every print you buy helps put gas in the tank to get me and my cameras to another show to bring you more show coverage.

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

See you at a show,

Royboy

August 20, 2013August 14, 2014

Event Coverage :2013 HAMB Drags Weekend Part 2

Here are some more shots from the HAMB Drags Friday Night’s pre-party shenanigans

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

Mike and Daddy-O from Pushrod (and Atlas Speed & Custom)

This looks like a good time…

Dick’s Chevy is simple and clean and a driving machine.

Stray Kat Kustoms (Mickey) has just about finished his 60 Chevy with 60 Merc Grill as his daily driver.

Early Saturday morning after a hearty breakfast I roamed the parking lot a bit before heading out.

Here’s my buddy Rick’s new shoebox.

A whole lotta kool in the host hotel parking lot.

On the way to MO-KAN Dragway we stopped by Ryno Built for a coffee and donuts open house.

A few cars were taking advantage of the shop, like Jason swapping his slicks on.

Others gathered to help a friend 1/2 a country from home.

Then Jason tacked his grill support bracket back in place.

150 miles each way and consistent 10 second passes all day. Mike had a good debut weekend for the Henry J.

The next stop is the track for the main event!

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

See you at a show,

Royboy

August 19, 2013August 14, 2014

Event Coverage : 2013 H.A.M.B. Drags Weekend Part 1

Another HAMB Drags weekend has come and gone.

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

As usual for this event I decided to leave my ride at home and catch a ride with my folks down to Joplin. With all of the travel that I do, it’s good to spend a couple of those weekends a year with them on the road. As I loaded my bags into the back of the truck the rain was pouring down in our little town. We headed south as quick as we could to try to outrun the storm. The route between Gypsum, KS and Joplin, MO has a few turns so every time we out ran the storm we made a turn and drove right back into it for the first 2 hours or so of the trip. 15 or 20 miles in a massive hail storm and torrential downpours were lowlights of Thursday evening’s drive.

Friday morning we assembled some of our friends and headed for Springfield, MO for the swap meet. The Ozarks Antique Auto Club Swap Meet is massive. There is no other way to describe it really. The car corral is usually loaded with good buys and some that are a bit over priced. There are top notch vendors from across the country and a truly staggering amount of individual sellers covering the fairgrounds. I didn’t find anything that I couldn’t live without, actually I had my heart set on an Offenhauser 4bbl intake for my flathead and some matching heads, but some new Royboy computer upgrades had that cash spoken for. Ahhhh, maybe next year.

Then it was back to the host hotel area for the Friday Night pre-party! Tons of folks drove their rides from all over the country to attend the drags and the pre-party. Music was provided by my friends Pushrod and they rocked the party like non-other.

To see all of the photos in the gallery go here.

Then it was off to bed to get up for Saturday’s shenanigans, more about those tomorrow.

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

See you at a show,

Royboy

August 18, 2013August 19, 2013

A Look Ahead: Ol Marias River Run – Ottawa, KS

Coming up Sept. 21st is the Ol Marais River Run in Ottawa, KS

Here are some shots from the 2012 event.

I will be at the show shooting again this year, if you’d like custom photos of your car at this show use this form to let me know.

See you at a show,

Royboy

August 17, 2013August 21, 2013

A Look Ahead: Rev It Up! – Lawrence, KS

2012 marked my second trip to Lawrence, KS for the Rev It Up car show. This was also the second venue for the show in those two trips.

for all of the info on this show go www.revitupcarshow.com

I will not be attending the show this year due to it being moved to a day with 3 other shows in KS, so sorry I will not be able to be at all of them!

These photos are from the 2012 event.

See you at a show,

Royboy

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August 15, 2013August 15, 2013

Brand New royboyproductions.com

By now you should be aware of the new royboyproductions.com

I’m not going to waste a bunch of your time explaining it. Basically the blog has become the main ingredient of the site. There are links in the menu across the top of the page to let you go straight to Event Coverage, Car Features, Show Schedule, Galleries, all of your favorite components of Royboy Productions. There are a couple of “Coming Soon” pages, and yes I hate them too, but they are coming and I just wanted them there for place holders until I can finish the pages out.

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If you have any questions or comments on the new site layout, please use the form below.

See you at a show,

Royboy

August 11, 2013August 15, 2013

The Future for Royboy Productions

The Future for Royboy Productions

In the coming weeks things get very busy for Royboy Productions. The website is long overdue for an overhaul, that will be happening soon. The 2014 calendars will be announced in the first week of October, which seems like a long ways away but will be here before you know it.

Website Redesign

Since January of this year the daily Monday through Friday blog posts have really been a focus of mine. I strive to bring you something of value daily. I want to take that to another level, not only by going to a 7 day a week schedule but also by making the blog the basic foundation of the site. When you go to royboyproductions.com you will be greeted with the blog, where I plan on having the same show coverage that you’ve become used to but also add in shop visits, car features, car club features and special interest stories.

Advertising

Yes the new site will have advertising. While the car show coverage and other photos on the Royboy Galleries are all for sale, let’s be honest, they don’t come close to paying the bills. The same holds true for all of the magazine coverage. I want to continue to offer you all of this coverage for free which means that I’ll be looking to add advertising to the main site, but care will be taken to make it blend in and flow with the content instead of distract you from the purpose of the site. If you own a business that would like to be in front of the Royboy audience’s eyes, use the contact form here to get ahold of me. Since the blog has gone to the daily format it’s gone from around 2,500 views to over 40,000 and the photos on the gallery page have jumped to over 9.6 million views recently.

Shows

Starting next weekend August 17th with the H.A.M.B. Drags I will be pretty busy doing a show or event every weekend almost until Thanksgiving. You will be able to get the full rundown of all of the shows that I plan on attending by going to the schedule section of royboyproductions.com There will be some shows on the schedule that I want you to know about because I support them but I just can’t make it, those will be denoted with a simple “not attending” after their name in the listing. Just because I can’t make it there doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t, if it’s on the list, it’s an event you should attend.

Email Newsletter

Since social media like Facebook likes to hold content back from users in an effort to get businesses to pay to promote their content I’ve been toying with the idea of taking the most popular blog posts and photos each week and compiling them into a newsletter that would be delivered to your email. This will not be fresh content but rather a “best of” delivered right to your inbox. If I go through with the newsletter project it will include something like a background image for your desktop or cellphone as a free bonus.

Photo Shoots

Photo shoots and magazine articles are where Royboy Productions makes it’s money. The magazine articles pay decently for the effort it takes to do them but there are often many months between the work and the pay since they do not pay until the magazine goes to publishing with your article in it. The shoots are something I’ve really not pushed enough, but especially starting in 2014 (and some this fall) I want you to know that it’s really more economical than you think to get some fantastic quality photos of your ride created. I will try to work in shoots while I’m at shows that you’re also at, where we leave the show or just go to a less populated site for some amazing images, thereby saving you money by not having to cover travel expenses for me. Sitting around and talking with Wichita kustom legend Dave Stuckey has really driven the point home to me that decades from now the photos that you have of the cars you used to own will be the biggest reminders of memories that otherwise may stay hidden in the back of your mind. Yes that sounds corny, but Dave has very few photos of all of the cars that he’s built due to a house fire and other circumstances. He’s really opened my eyes up to how important it is to document all of this. Let me help document your ride so you can pass the stories down to future generations. If you’re interested in a custom photo shoot use the contact form here to get ahold of me and we can talk about your project.

See you at a show,

Royboy

August 9, 2013August 15, 2013

Where all to find Royboy Productions online

So obviously if you’re reading this you know all about the Royboy Productions Blog… um this is it. But Royboy images and stories can be found all over the internet. The home hub for it all is royboyproductions.com over the coming months I hope to update the site to act as a true hub for all that goes on in the RBP world.

The RBP galleries are all found on SmugMug, over 38,000 images from Austin to Vegas to Chicago and all kinda points in between. This is the main place to go for the visual stories that make up Royboy Productions.

Another great place to keep up with RBP is on Facebook. Pretty much everything flows through that page, links to photo galleries, blog posts, etc. all go through the Royboy page on Facebook.

Keep an eye out for a new Royboy Productions website, there will be a complete overhaul in the next few months to better bring you daily articles on show coverage, feature cars, shop profiles, and car club profiles.

See you at a show,

Royboy

July 24, 2013

Stop By The Booth! Support the Royboy travels!

This weekend July 25-28th, 2013 at the KKOA Leadsled Spectacular in Salina, KS stop by the royboy booth, some of the items for sale…

There’s the coozies, which will come with a free bottle of water while the water supplies last.

Then there’s the Limited Edition Posters
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Then there’s the Model A stencil shirts

Then there’s the embroidered hats

Then there’s the new Plex-mounted 5×7 prints

Then there’s the hard mounted 12×18 prints

Then there’s custom photo shoots that include a 12×18 print shipped to your house.

All weekend long I’ll be looking for the perfect ride to give my Young Builders Award to.

The award comes with a killer prize pack.

2 free haircuts and straight razor shaves by Devilles Barbershop in Wichita, KS
15% discount at Premier Body & Paint (Jeff Myers shop) in Arkansas City, KS
10% off of all products, 15% off of products made in house at RJay’s Speed Shop
Free set of kustom dash knobs from Kool Rides
Free Murpho’s Rod & Customs of Austin, TX gear & a gift certificate
Photo shoot from Royboy Productions with a free 12×18 photo shipped to you.

See you at the show,

Royboy

July 23, 2013August 21, 2013

Royboy’s August Schedule

June and July are the slow times for me, just a couple of shows to hit and lots of weekends that I’m not on the road, it drives me crazy to sit at home that much. Mid August is when the schedule ramps back up and runs nearly without a weekend off until around Thanksgiving.

For me in 2013 it starts back up at the H.A.M.B. Drags held in Asbury, MO at the MO-KAN Dragway on Aug. 17th. We usually show up to the hotel in Joplin on the 15th, head to Springfield, MO to a swap meet on the 16th and then it’s all day long at the drags on the 17th.

The next weekend has been the Blacktop Nationals in Wichita for the past 3 years. Last year I arrived to Wichita in a torrential downpour. Something that I did not think my camera would enjoy so I effectively skipped the show last year. But the previous two I was there and here’s some of what I saw. This year the event goes down on Aug. 24th.

Following that is Aug. 31 and the Labor Day weekend goodness that is the Greaserama in the KC area (Tracy, MO to be exact). I’ve been attending the Greaserama since before my car could make the drive somewhere around 2007 or so, I’ve always had a good time and I’ve always wished it wasn’t over when it was.

That’s it for what’s coming up in August on the Royboy Schedule. If you will be at any of these events or on my way to or from them and you want a custom photo shoot of your vehicle, book a shoot with me then to save $ since I can combine the travel, shoot me an email for more details.

See you at a show,

Royboy

May 18, 2013September 11, 2013

A blast from the past.

Two years ago a bunch of my hooligan hot rod and kustom family got together for a great run through the Flint Hills of south eastern Kansas. I recently went through some of the photos and updated them with a new edit this week. Here’s the blog about that day.

And here are the photos:

Original

New Edit

It was more fun than I can accurately convey, I highly recommend that you get together with your friends and go out and enjoy your ride!

Don’t forget that it costs a lot for the gas and hotels to bring you all of the car show coverage, if you want to help out, consider buying a print on http://royboyproductions.smugmug.com/ or maybe one of the embroidered hats, shoebox shirt, model A shirt, Poster #1, Poster #2 or something from the Zazzle store below.

See you at a show,

Travis

May 17, 2013October 3, 2013

Upcoming Event: Marysville AutoFest!

It was by complete random chance that I ran into the AutoFest show in Marysville, KS a couple of years ago. I had made a 4 hour trip each way to check out a shop I’d heard about outside of Omaha, NE and on the way home while I sat waiting for a pilot car for some road construction I was told of a car show just down the road.

I figured what the hell, and went to have a look. Here are the photos from that first visit.

So last year I went back. This time I ran into some old friends. Here are the photos from that visit.

And this year I will return. As part of the same event there is a BBQ competition and I happened to mention that to my BBQ buddies. Well, they decided that we were going to compete at this one, so we’re loading up the smoker, a camper and we’ll make a weekend out of it. Should be a heck of a trip.
The show goes down over the first weekend in June in Marysville, KS. Here’s the only link I could find for info on the show. Come join us!

See you at a show,

Travis

May 11, 2013September 16, 2013

Event Coverage: 2013 Stray Kat 500 Part 6

Stray Kat 500 Coverage

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

Thanks for following along in my adventures, see you at a show,

Travis

May 10, 2013September 16, 2013

Event Coverage: Stray Kat 500 Part 5

Stray Kat 500 Coverage

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.

That’s it for Saturday’s photos. Sunday photos tomorrow!

See you at a show,

Travis

May 9, 2013September 16, 2013

Event Coverage: 2013 Stray Kat 500 Part 4

Stray Kat 500 Coverage

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.

May 8, 2013September 16, 2013

Event Coverage: 2013 Stray Kat 500 Part 3

Stray Kat 500 Coverage

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

This is the raw photo:

This is the edited version:

Raw:

Edit:

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

That’s it for this post, see you at a show,

Travis

May 7, 2013September 16, 2013

Event Coverage: 2013 Stray Kat 500 Part 2

Stray Kat 500 Coverage

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

Next up Saturday in the rain!

See you at a show,

Travis

May 6, 2013September 16, 2013

Event Coverage: 2013 Stray Kat 500 Part 1

Stray Kat 500 Coverage

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.

After the stop at Chaotic we rolled down to Premier Body & Paint in Arkansas City, KS to see what Jeff Myers was up to, then it was off to Dewey, OK the home of the Stray Kat 500! After paralleling the rain for a couple of hours we were headed right into it. Sorry about the blurry shot.

The next morning at the hotel I noticed my Galaxie had a familiar friend hanging out next to her. Doc Parson’s incredible T.

Friday morning we went to the host hotel of the SK500, no I wasn’t staying there due to them messing up my reservations but that’s a whole different story. Here’s my Galaxie with Bill Moore’s convertible and much lower 63… I have some work to do on mine now I guess 🙂

This kustom Lincoln was one of my favorites from the show. Driven from Amarillo to Dewey a trip of over 400 miles with a good portion in the rain, this car was one of many that hit the 500 for the firs time.

I can’t hit a show without running into a member of the Spiwak family, and that’s a good thing.

The Stears are also at nearly every event that I attend, and most of them in this road warrior Ford.

I love this 40.

And my family friend Robert’s brand new to his family 40.

The flames and louvered hood just work on this Ford.

Mickey (straykatkustoms) Merc is always a sight for sore eyes. Love this car.

From the engine to the stance and the insert with matching tonneau, this truck was puuuuuurfect (as Stray Kat Kustoms would say).

The Mundy family brought a couple of killer rides to the show, this one a freshly finished 58 Pontiac wagon.

Can’t have a Stray Kat event without Mongo.

There were lots of kool pickups at the event.

Some old friends showed up while I was out back scoping the parking lot.

Kool oozes from the parking lots of all of the Bartlesville area hotels on Stray Kat 500 weekend.

Dustin had his decklid off to add more louvers (he’s a louver addict), so Mongo thought it would turn Dustin’s Merc into a handy couch. Perfect!

Remember what I said about the parking lots? I rest my case.

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.

See you at a show,

Travis

April 12, 2013September 16, 2013

Event Coverage: 2013 Lonestar Roundup Part 5

Here’s Part 5

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Anyone want to grab lunch while the lines are short? For sale

This dude was driving around all day dragging his rear bumper just begging people for attention. Sad.