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2016 Retro Rewind Coverage Pt. 2 Sponsored by Speedway Motors

2016 Retro Rewind

This post of the Hot Rod Hill Climb is brought to you by Speedway Motors. Thank you Speedway for making this coverage possible. Visit the the Speedway Motors site here, on Facebook here or on Twitter here.

This post of the Retro Rewind is brought to you by Speedway Motors. Thank you Speedway for making this coverage possible. Visit the the Speedway Motors site here, on Facebook here or on Twitter here.

The 2016 Retro Rewind in Dubuque, IA is physically a small event in a fairly small venue, but it’s HUGE on heart. That’s what the Retro Rewind, Vintage Torque Fest and Iron Invasion events are all about in a word, heart. John Wells and company put these events on to raise money for the 501(c)(3) Helping Hannah’s Heart Foundation. PLEASE go check out this foundation, it’s so very important that us in the hot rod and kustom world help out foundations like this that help out good hard working folks going through some of the toughest times in their lives.

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2016 Retro Rewind Coverage Pt. 1 Sponsored by Speedway Motors

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My 2nd trip to Dubuque, IA for the Retro Rewind went down over the weekend of Jan. 9, 2016. The 3rd annual Retro Rewind was a lot of fun, even if I decided last minute to not bring my ride. The bitter cold may have kept my car (I wimped out after being sick all week) and some spectators away but there were still a ton of great cars, trucks, bikes, vendors, bands and awesome car people at the show.

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Car Feature: Austin’s 32 Roadster

Often when you find a great looking ride on the streets or at a car show, you find that the owner is typically a bit older and has had decades worth of rides to practice on before getting to this great one. It’s rare to find a young owner with a great car, and to find one that’s 22 and built it himself almost never happens. So when I first saw Austin Grabowski roll into the Starliner car show at Wichita’s Kansas Aviation Museum, I admit it, I assumed it was a car that had been passed down to him. That first impression was dead wrong.

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Royboy Feature Videos

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

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Upcoming Event: 2013 October Schedule

The month of September has been a busy one. With an event every weekend and most of those weekends with multiple option of events to attend, it’s definitely been a good time. October is shaping up much the same way. I thought I’d give you a list of the events that I’m going to attend and some that I can’t, hopefully I will have friends turning in coverage from the ones that I cannot make so that you and I can enjoy the photos. Without further ado, here is the schedule.

October Schedule

Oct. 4th

Hutchinson, KS – Johnny Torres Upholstery Open House

One of my many talented friends doing upholstery for a living. Johnny is having an open house at his shop in Hutchinson, KS on Friday night before the big Saturday show in downtown Hutch.

Oct. 5th

Hutchinson, KS – 6th Annual Hutch Rod Run

Russell, KS – Flatland Car Show

Abilene, KS – Chisholm Trail Days

Oklahoma City – Shoebox Central Run –

Oct. 12th

Lamar, MO – Ol Geezers Car Show

Woodstock, IL – Iron Invasion

Agitators show – Atomic Rod & Custom Car Show

Oct. 18th & 19th

Salina, KS – NOT A CAR SHOW – This one is not a car show, has nothing to do with cars, but is a mainstay on my schedule. I have worked as a stage hand and later as an assistant engineer for the BluesMasters at the Crossroads at Blue Heaven Studios since 2000. If you are a fan of blues music this is the place to be Friday and Saturday nights.

Oct. 26th

Sand Springs, OK – Hot Rod Garage is a well known high end hot rod and custom shop in the Tulsa area. The 26th is their open house and I’ve heard that there will be 12 front engine dragsters on display among a bunch of customer cars and more. Definitely looking forward to heading down to this event for the first time.

November

November will continue the busy schedule with an event every weekend, I may even do one on Thanksgiving weekend if I can make enough money to cover the gas to Denver and back after going to Oklahoma once and Texas twice!

See you at a show,

Royboy

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Event Coverage : 2013 Starliner Part 6

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See you down the road my friends!

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Event Coverage : 2013 Starliner Part 5

LOTS of photos in this one folks!

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The family that hangs out at the cars show together…is kool.

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Event Coverage : 2013 Starliner Part 4

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For Part 4 we’re still at the show, and we start with Aaron of Fast A.L.’s Upholstery’s Ford and Mickey’s  (StrayKatKustoms’) 60 Chevrolet flattop with 60 Merc Grille and Pontiac taillights.

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Event Coverage : 2013 Starliner Part 3

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So here we are on Saturday morning at the Kansas Aviation Museum.

I backed the Galaxie up under the wing of the KC135 as far as I could to keep in the shade.

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Event Coverage : 2013 Starliner Part 2

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The 2nd stop on the Garage Krawl for our group was my friend Roger’s house. Due to it being a private property I will not mention his last name or where it is. Roger has a fantastic collection of Fords mostly 40’s of various types and a couple of Falcons and more, but his automobilia collection is equally as impressive.

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Event Coverage : 2013 Starliner Part 1

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As I did last year, I got to the Host Hotel on Thursday evening about 7pm so that I could wake up ready to go on the Garage Krawl on Friday morning. After dinner with some friends I shot some night shots in the parking lot.

One of my favorite Mercs around.

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A Look Back: 2010 Hot Rod Revolution – Austin, TX

Still one of my favorite shows that I’ve ever attended. The cars, the venue, the bands, everything just came together to make it a fantastic weekend. The Hot Rod Revolution in 2010 was the first year for the show in Austin, TX, it’s only about a 9 hour drive so it sounded like a great excuse to drive down and check it out. Leaving home at 6:15 pm I checked in to my hotel room at around 3:30am and went to sleep, 6 hours later I was headed to the show. The City of Austin Seaholm Power Plant made for a perfect backdrop of about 100 hot rods. 1948 and older only, traditional hot rod styling only, this show couldn’t help but be awesome. Here’s a slide show of that gallery, click here to go to the gallery directly.

Since then the show has moved to a new location in Austin at Camp Maybre. I attended the 2011 show there and shot photos that can be seen here. The show’s date has moved around and has conflicted with other shows that I needed to attend since and I’ve not been able to go again. Hopefully one of these years I can get back to it because it’s a great show of my favorite type of hot rods.

See you at a show,

Royboy

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Event Coverage: 2013 Clutch Rod And Custom Open House

So one day not too long ago I get invited on Facebook to an Open House at a shop I didn’t know in Wichita, KS. The open house was the same day as another event that I was attending a few blocks away so it’s a no brainer that I’m going to stop in if at all possible.  Clutch Rod And Custom at 406 S. Market in Wichita, KS was the shop. I’m glad I stopped in.  As I’m told, the shop is an old Mercury dealership, I’d love to see the spacious facility filled with bathtub Mercs! The front display room had a couple of cars in it and every available surface was covered in art by different kulture artists. The cars on display in the shop were top notch, I didn’t get much chance to talk to the folks at the shop as they were busy running the Open House, but I did get to spend some time with my good buddy Ben Dragdaddy (facebook) and his lovely wife and my fellow photographer and buddy Grant Cox. I expect you to go to their pages on FB and follow their feeds, you won’t be disappointed.

Here are some photos from the evening.


Thanks to Clutch Rod And Custom for the food, the music and some good times of hot rod/kustom fellowship with some old friends.

See you at a show,

Royboy

 

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1 Month Warning: Rumble – Wichita, KS

Coming up September 28th in Wichita, KS is the 6th annual Rumble (formerly the Rumble in Delano)! The show has a new venue this year, moving to the street where some of the first kustom kulture art shows in the area were held at the Go Away Garage.
This show has been a lot of fun to attend over the last few years, the date’s changed and now the venue but I have a feeling the show will continue to get better and better.

The show runs from 1pm to 8pm and  will be at 508 S Commerce St. in Downtown Wichita, KS. There will be hot rods, kustoms, bikes and more on display. The Pin-up Pagent is open to ladies 18 and up and there will be prizes for 1st, 2nd & 3rd, go here for more info. 4 bands will take the stage at various points in the event including Sucker, Callahan Band, TheTerminals & The Trip Daddy’s. To register your ride for the show go to this page on their site.

Shots from 2012

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Here are shots from the 2009 Rumble

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Royboy

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

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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

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Event Coverage :2013 HAMB Drags Weekend Part 3

Finally we hit the track!

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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.

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Royboy

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Event Coverage :2013 HAMB Drags Weekend Part 2

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

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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!

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See you at a show,

Royboy

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

Another HAMB Drags weekend has come and gone.

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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.

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

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See you at a show,

Royboy

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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

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Event Coverage: 2013 KKOA Leadsled Spectacular Part 8

 Sunday started with more rain, meaning my shoot of the Pacifica for a magazine feature was dead in the water so to speak.

Event Coverage: 2013 KKOA Leadsled Spectacular Part 8

If you own a car in the Harness family, it’s probably cool.
Sectioned and chopped all in 1 weekend at the KKOA by Backyard Garage
I’ll always dig this chopped, channeled and sectioned Mercury.
The Dodge chop was well underway, filling in the areas where the roof met the quarters.
Gene driving Pacifica
Shortly before Gene tried to spray mud all over me by mashing the gas pedal 🙂
Gene Winfield driving Pacifica
Keith Dean’s Mercury
McPhail’s 41 Buick
McPhail's 41 Buick sitting right, looking good, getting a bit of a bath.
Johnny Torres’ Plymouth
Johnny Torres' killer Plymouth.
Jack Rudy’s Chevy Truck
Jack Rudy's Chevy truck
Well folks, that’s about it. I will be looking through the photos and doing some more edits from time to time. If you would like any of the photos on the entire site as a print or poster that is easy to do, email me if you have any questions.
See you at a show,
Royboy

 

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Event Coverage: 2013 KKOA Leadsled Spectacular Part 7


Gene Winfield’s Pacifica the 2013 777 Award winner! at the Leadsled Spectacular

Voodoo Larry’s freshly reworked Voodoo Kreeper
Chris Ryan’s 53 Cadillac
Jeff Myers’ Stude Pickup and Voodoo Jim’s Corncob Coupe

Dick Warsocki’s Chevy

Some of Shane Z’s pinstriped wares for sale

Nice rear ends

Kolman’s Buick in motion

The lovely Brenna behind the wheel of my buddy Mike’s FED

Gimlet in the cage of the FED

After being inducted to the KKOA Hall of Fame, Keith Dean is back at work Sunday morning in the rain working on the chop.” alt=”After being inducted to the KKOA Hall of Fame, Keith Dean is back at work Sunday morning in the rain working on the chop.
After being inducted to the KKOA Hall of Fame, Keith Dean is back at work Sunday morning in the rain working on the chop.

See you at a show,
Royboy
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Event Coverage: 2013 KKOA Leadsled Spectacular Part 6

My buddy Dick’s Graffiti Coupe

I need to get the full story on this car, as I remember it, it’s been under construction for years, originally was chopped in CA in the 50’s or 60’s? I’ll find out and report back.

PJ’s clean long roof

Love it.

and this one

Joe McGregor’s Caddy
 

Edsel Ranchero, complete with Edsel dash

 
Denny’s Sedan

Chad’s Buick (2012 777 Award winner)

Mickey (StrayKatKustoms) Merc

Krobe’s Chevy

Pinstriping Legend Ron Myers pulling lines

Chad Ward doing the same.

Another shot of the Wench

Larry Wolfe’s 1965 Pontiac Catalina, orginally customized by Dave Stuckey in the 60’s and recently returned to Wichita. I hear it will go under a rebuild to put it back in the form that it last left Stuckey’s shop in.

300,000 miles and still going strong.

Harness boys sure know how to build a looker.

Butch Harness’ new ride.

BarnFindT’s 40 and NoSurf’s Coupe

Viva Los Punk Rods

Some of the pinups in the contest

My good friend “Gimlet” our new Miss Leadsled!

See you at a show,
Royboy

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Event Coverage: 2013 KKOA Leadsled Spectacular Part 5

Don’s 53 is one I always love to see rolling into a show because it carries a great family that are a lot of fun to hang out with.
 
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One of the cleanest Chevy’s around the area these days.
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Jack’s 51, the build includes a ton of work by my friends at Chaotic Customs and interior by Fast A.L.’s Upholstery

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The Trixie Tee, look for a feature on this car in the coming months.
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Hub and Gloria Harness in their 1959 El Camino, the car was built in 83 for about $4k and it’s never been changed. Still looking good today.
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Chris and Karma Carlson own this 60 Pontiac named Stella and they also own Chaotic Customs in Mulvane, KS.
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Mike Young’s 29 Roadster, it’s sick fast and has some killer flames, check it out in person, they really seem to stand up off the paint.
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Mark Moriarty rolling in on Saturday.
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Love this shot and this car.
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One of Dave Stuckey’s builds from the late 60’s. It’s been on the east coast for decades until Larry Wolfe brought it home recently. I hope to be shooting a feature on this ride soon.
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John Tretton’s wild wagon
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Jimmy & Chick’s 58 Wagon, although she says it’s hers…
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My friend Robert’s 59 Chevy
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Ricki’s Chevy on the left
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This ride has been for sale for a couple of  years and it’s a steal. I want it, go buy a whole bunch of photos so I can get it 🙂
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Clean hot rod.
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See you at a show,

Royboy

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Event Coverage: 2013 KKOA Leadsled Spectacular Part 4

 
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 Saturday!!!!

 See you at a show,
Royboy
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Event Coverage: 2013 MotorMania Part 2

Part 2!!!

Wow, talk about ruining all of the lines of the car by having everything open… I should have looked to see if the damn gas door was open too.
That’s it for what I saw at the Motor Mania show.
See you at a show, keep our friends in Oklahoma in your thoughts, prayers, mojo, good vibes, postive energy, whatever it is that you believe in. Those folks need any good stuff they can get.
Travis