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In Part 1 I went through some back history of the show from my cameras up to 2010.

So now on to 2011

Something I wrote at the time:
“In the dead of winter each January it’s a pleasure every year to get together with my hotrod and kustom family and spend some time inside WITH a bunch of cool cars. The Darryl Starbird Rod & Custom show in Wichita, KS typically pulls about 400 cars max for a 3 day indoor show. As the name implies rods and customs show in abundance, but so do stock restorations, survivors, 4×4’s, lowriders, rat rods, and various types of racers.

A couple of very cool front engine dragsters were on display this year, as were some very nice traditional built hot rods. Traditional built rods are not rats, and this show had both build styles represented nicely. The car count and the vendor count both seemed down this year, but that was a blessing instead of a hinderance. Less cars means more room to get around the cars, and it seemed that the cars that didn’t show were the ones that I normally don’t shoot anyhow, so the show’s overall quality went up as a result.

The Marauders and Fundamentals had great club displays with the Marauders taking home the prize for best display for their “model” car display complete with giant exacto knives and Testor paint bottles to complete the look. The Fundamentals went with a beach theme and rumor has it some Marauders may have been involved with an incident involving Baby Ruth candy bars being dropped in the Fundamentals “sand” (kitty litter). I’m not going to say where the story came from or how hard the person who told it to me was laughing when he told how they did it.”

 
My friend Mike’s super clean Camaro

Just your basic 5 window hot rod coupe

Jack’s 30 Ford 5 Window Coupe as part of the Mulvane Marauder’s display

Chris and Karma Carlson’s 60 Pontiac Stella (owners of Chaotic Customs in Mulvane, KS)

Mike Young’s way wild 29 Roadster

A Historic hot rod brought down from McPherson College, the Paul Harris 32

Rocky Burris’ Wild Winged Ford pickup “TooKool”

Tom Hanna’s gorgeous FED

A couple of Starbird’s BubbleTops

2012

Jack’s 29 AV8 Roadster, a survivor from the 50’s
Video Feature on this car.

Gene Weaver’s 54 Chevy, 95% owner built, and beautifully done.

Larry James’ 67 Caddy

Rob Robinson’s 49 Plymouth, customized by Chaotic Customs

A beautiful Kustom 47 Ford

Roger Jetter’s amazing 54 Cadillac

Big Lip Camaro, always impresses

Doc Parson’s 27 T, one of the koolest hot rods out there.

Roger Morrison’s 32, The Berardini Brothers #404 (great story and video at that link)

The show is Jan. 18-20 at Century II in Wichita, KS  go to starbirddevlin.com for more info.

See you at a show,

Travis