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The first day at Back to the 50's started out wet. Dried off for 4-5 hours and started up again. Met a lot of friends and visited. Medical reports all around. Comes with age. Took a few pics of the weird. the unique, the
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"Medical reports all around. Comes with age" Funny how the conversations tend to pertain to health the older we get even when we're surrounded by thousands of hotrods...???
 
Interesting rides. Sedan reminds me of model kits when I was a kid. Lil Coffin comes to mind. The original car was built in 1954. Here we are 70 years later, and similar cars are still at car shows.
 
BH, the '27 Hudson was very well built. Th light areas are wood grained and nice. The big block had Brodix heads and electronic stack injection. First class all the way.
I drove out and back on 15 year old bias front tires. Darting, weaving and shaking all the way. This morning I put some new American 5 spokes with new radial tires on the front. It made a world of difference. They didn't help with the scary incident I had though.
I was about 4 blocks from the fairgrounds following a line of cars down a slight hill when my brake pedal went to the floor. I was gaining on the '56 Chevy in front of me. I would do anything to keep from hitting him. I tried scrubbing the tires against the curb but it didn't help enough. Tried shoving it into Park. No dice. So I jumped the curb and went down the sidewalk about half a block I was slowing but not enough and there was an intersection ahead. I chose to run into a tree with my right front tire. That stopped the roadster. A quick review indicated no damage.. Had fun at the show. About 2:00 it started raining. So I hit the highway. Rain, road spray, cars darting in and out, what a ride!
Here's a few more pics. I had an Anglia Thames, so here's one. A Bantam with a 60 hp flathead. My old Chrysler Tub and a long rat.
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A couple new ones showed up tonight. First is Greg's (the host) '32 which is almost done. His attention to detail and skill level is second to none. Next we have a plastic fantastic that's worth a few bucks. Then a yellow kitty-car from England.
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Last night there was a car show/cacklefest 5 miles from my home. A beautiful recreation of Tom Hoover's "Fishbowl" Top Fuel dragster was there. Fired it up on gas and switched to 90% nitro. Boy, the sound change and the smell of nitro in the air made this old boy feel young again. There were 4-5 other dragsters and funny cars that fired up too. About a hundred cars in the show. Great BBQ and a band under a big tent. All this is a rememberance for a fellow racer who passed away during Covid. Miss ya John. Here's a bad shot of the Hoover dragster and some of the spectator cars that I liked.
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Nobody from someplace else moves to Minnesota on purpose. So we are a cohesive, if not miserable lot here.
The government does plunk lots of people from foreign lands here. They're not into hot rods.
 
I was drawn to the southwest even as a child but while trucking over the road i liked the feel of Minnesota.
 

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