Retirement Cruise

[DozerII]

From Collins we headed west to Edson Alberta, to visit family and attend a Cars & Coffee event.

The first picture, I noticed a cool reflection in the hub cap and tried to take a picture of it, The reflection is my brothers house.

From Edson we headed west into the Rocky Mountains

Mount Robson, a really beautiful place to stop.

 

[DozerII]

After 700 plus km of crueling almost 100 F temperatures we arrived in Caribou country Clinton B.C. This is a tiny village where my wife grew up. We spent the weekend with her brother and his wife. Her brother is a real car guy and knew all the local builders and hoarders. I met some real interesting people tucked back in the bush with really cool cars.

The first two are at a 16 acre spot in the middle of nowhere, the owner ia real cool guy that bailed out of the big city to the quiet of the bush to build cars. He has a beautiful 66 GMC fleet side short box corvette front and rear suspension and a blown small bock but my pictures didn't turn out.

This next fellow is going to make you Ford lovers happy, I have never seen so many late 60's Mustang barn finds in one place. All except one run, a couple are pretty rare including a 68 GTA

More from Clinton to come

 

[DozerII]

one more from the Mustang hoard.

And then this was a gift from the Mustang Man, I guess I will Have to come up with a car built for it.

Next we went to what was called Clinton sawmills the actual place the wife's family lived, the sawmill is gone but there are some real nice acreages there in it's place. The fellow we went to visit went to school with my wife and loves trucks, both these examples are drivers that he has built on Dodge diesel 1 ton chassies.

This is his only car and what a beaut.

This is a start of another colection right in the village.

 

[DozerII]

This collection owned buy someone with way to much money, I met the cool guy that is hired to build the vehicles and always have them ready for the owner to drive. There are two shops but I only had time to see the first one.
Most are survivors, the Broncos one is a 460 powered the other 429

The Camaro is a total custom build with all the best components

More to come tomorrow.

 

[Old Iron]

You're definitely livin the dream seeing all the cool places
Thanks for the pics, means more with the stories to go along with them [cl

 

[05snopro440]

Really cool stuff, Glen!

The rad ornament that was a gift is incredible. When my dad got his 33 Dodge we looked up the prices of those early ram emblems... Quite a gift that he gave you! That's awesome!

 

[dutch]

great pics Glen. Your car looks awesome against any background

 

[bob w]

Your car with the snow capped mountain in the background just blows me away. If there is a 2023 calendar, that should be the December pic.[cl

 

[smallfoot]

Great post Dozer!

 

[earthman]

This has been so enjoyable to follow Doz. Thank you.
I believe your car steals the show everywhere it's been!

 

[smallfoot]

That pic of the Chevelle in post 62 pic 2 reminds me of my 2nd car...

 

[DozerII]

You're definitely livin the dream seeing all the cool places
Thanks for the pics, means more with the stories to go along with them [cl

Thanks, yes it was probably the coolest vacation we have ever had.

Really cool stuff, Glen!

The rad ornament that was a gift is incredible. When my dad got his 33 Dodge we looked up the prices of those early ram emblems... Quite a gift that he gave you! That's awesome!

I was really shocked when he ran to his shop and came back with it for me, but he said he is not even a little bit Dodge so it was better off with me.

great pics Glen. Your car looks awesome against any background

Thanks Dutch

Your car with the snow capped mountain in the background just blows me away. If there is a 2023 calendar, that should be the December pic.[cl

Thanks Bob, I tried to fins a spot without all the vehicles but there was way to many to work around.

Great post Dozer!

Thanks Smallfoot

 

[DozerII]

This has been so enjoyable to follow Doz. Thank you.
I believe your car steals the show everywhere it's been!

Thanks Eman I'm glad to be able to share it.

That pic of the Chevelle in post 62 pic 2 reminds me of my 2nd car...

The Chevelle was a six cylinder car, he has installed a 327 and 4 speed, said he had a couple things left to finish before a safety then it will be his daily driver.

 

[DozerII]

From Clinton we took a 5 hour drive SW down the Trans Canada Highway to Vancouver. I haven't been there since the 90's wow the traffic. We spent 3 days with my cousins and my last Aunt she is 95. My cousins toured us around Vancouver and the burbs. We saw some sights but nothing really picture worthy. I had prior arrangements to meet a couple very popular Canadian You Tubers but they both stood me up
From Vancouver we headed east and took the famous Coquihalla highway to Kamloops. This was by far our hottest day so far, just over 100f. In Kamloops I stopped at DUB's Customs from the TV show Rust Valley Restorers. James West
is the owner and his first build on the show, the ratrod pickup he calls spider is where I copied his tail light idea from He is a super friendly guy, I took him away from the build he is doing for the current and last season for the show to look at the Dodge. We stood outside on the blazing pavement talking for half an hour, I was even able to help him with some information on a hemi swap he is planning for a 66 Dodge stepside. I have tried to uplaod pictures from my phone into this post but no way, keeps giving me errors.
In the TV show they make Rust Valley look like it is a whole community of car shop neighbours who are 5 minutes apart, far from it, Rust Bros. and the Whitepost are a little spot on the side of the Highway that is real easy to miss, I did. Rust Bros is a horribly messy, weed infested junk yard, Whitepost is a tourist trap. There is one real HotRod shop in between them that hasn't been mentioned in the show. Dub's and JF Customs are an hour away in Kamloops and Avery's shop is 2-3 hours away up around Adams lake.
From Here we Headed south to Meet ZZ Rodder in the Next post

 

[DozerII]

ZZ Rodder, Charlie, what can I say he has inspired all of us with his incredible builds and generous offers of advice and build ideas. As I said in a previous post we had an awesome visit with Charlie, got to see how the master works his magic with less tools than I have But he does live in a little tiny sub division that is surrounded on all sides by apple orchards. Thanks again Charlie

I have a version of this photo done on canvas 16x20 from Best Canvas on the wall already

Looking forward to when this car comes back in the shop.

 

[DozerII]

From Charlies we headed down to west Kelowna to spend a couple days with a friend from Saskatchewan the recently moved there. Then headed home on Hwy 3 a very twisty windy mountainous route home that the wife had not been on before. I only got a couple pictures.
The look out above Osoyoos B.C the climb out of Osoyoos is long and full of 180 degree switch backs.

Here we are back at home, I have yet to scrape all the bugs off the car or finish cleaning all the road grime off of it. Like I said in a previous post the only issue we had was the drives door latch coming loose, and almost loosing the A/C due to a rock in the grill.
We are almost sad that it is over, but it created a tone of memories we will have for ever. Thanks to everyone for the tons of support through the build that made this all possible.

 

[DozerII]

Here is a link to the video, a lot of the same pictures but a few different ones as well as video.

https://youtu.be/pqhw5_MRbAo

 

[zzrodder]

Great pics and stories Glen, thanks for taking us along! You folks are welcome back any time, really nice to make the in person connection with fellow rodders and share stories. [cl[cl

 

[Old Iron]

That road trip has to be the icing on the cake for all the time spent working on the car.
Millions of people never get the chance to enjoy those moments.
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[forbigpicture]

^^^^^^^
What OI said !!!!!

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