Weekend Trips

[VOguy]

I'm off this weekend to some trips to an air show and car show with my son. I'll be shooting some video, so hopefully I can get some cool things on tape. See you all when I get home!

[Delphine]

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f382/AnnabelleL/C2C/Pilot.gifHAVE FUN!! And bring back some good tapes!

[VOguy]

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f382/AnnabelleL/C2C/Pilot.gifHAVE FUN!! And bring back some good tapes!

If I can't figure out a way to post them, I'll have a friend put them on YouTube.

Here is where I'll be tomorrow.

http://www.fltplan.com/AirportInformation/TDZ.htm

This should be a cool show as they have a couple WW-II warbirds that are suppose to be there.

[Mcnowhere]

I'm off this weekend to some trips to an air show and car show with my son. I'll be shooting some video, so hopefully I can get some cool things on tape. See you all when I get home!
I love airshows but I haven't been to one in quite some time.

Have a blast with your son VOguy!! Looking forward to hearing about it when you get back! :)

[Dera]

Happy landings!

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Have fun, take care, and come back to us safely. http://www.elferteam.de/Forums/Smilies/marsa37.gif

[BeelzeBubbles]

Big fun! Enjoy!!

[VOguy]

Just got in. No wait, let me use that old joke.

"I just flew in, and man are my arms tired!" :D

I'll have the airshow video together in a few days. I shot a whole hour at the show. Highlight of the show was that my son won not one, but two raffles. Raffle 1 was for a "mini lesson" in a Cessna 152, and Raffle 2 was a ride in a World War II Navy bi-plane. The bi-plane came with floats and skis and was used for recon in the war. It's been fully restored, and it's beautiful.

I'll save the rest of the story for when the video is posted, but here is links to the car shows. I've never seen so many beautiful restored vehicles in a long time. Judging from the roster, we figured there was about 475 in the show, with lots of people wandering in and out. Sadly, my battery died before the "burnout" contest. The contest was to see how long you could burn your tires on the pavement. Boys will be boys.

Here is some video from the car show.

Part 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho8B8oDYhOI)

Part 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTiDuDD51vY)

Part 3 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGC39UzmyE0)

Part 4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcyzlbKvj8o)

[Alpha]

Just got in. No wait, let me use that old joke.

"I just flew in, and man are my arms tired!" :D

I'll have the airshow video together in a few days. I shot a whole hour at the show. Highlight of the show was that my son won not one, but two raffles. Raffle 1 was for a "mini lesson" in a Cessna 152, and Raffle 2 was a ride in a World War II Navy bi-plane. The bi-plane came with floats and skis and was used for recon in the war. It's been fully restored, and it's beautiful.

I'll save the rest of the story for when the video is posted, but here is links to the car shows. I've never seen so many beautiful restored vehicles in a long time. Judging from the roster, we figured there was about 475 in the show, with lots of people wandering in and out. Sadly, my battery died before the "burnout" contest. The contest was to see how long you could burn your tires on the pavement. Boys will be boys.

Here is some video from the car show.

Part 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho8B8oDYhOI)

Part 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTiDuDD51vY)

Part 3 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGC39UzmyE0)

Part 4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcyzlbKvj8o)

WOW VOguy, you did an outstanding job with those videos!! :notworthy http://home.no.net/birgif/glis/18.gif

Sounds like you and your son have a wonderful Father's Day.

Some of those old cars blow me away...reminds me of what "built to last" really meant, way back when!

Thanks for sharing your weekend with us :)

[VOguy]

I should have the air show videos done in a few days. Thanks for the good words!

[Dera]

Hey VOguy, look what is happening this coming Oct. in my little burg:


http://www.kingmanairshow.com/2007/

I guess it is kinda far for a weekend, but in case you don't know where Kingman is, we are only 100 mi. south of Lost Wages, Nevada, on the famous old Rte. 66.

ZOOOM-ZOOOM!

[VOguy]

I've BEEN to Kingman! I might have to wander back for that show.

BTW, take a close look at the B-17, then take a look at this short clip...

B-17 in Toledo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFlPOO5cApY)

(Sorry for the moving camera. It was windy and I forgot to take the tripod. DOH! )

[Delphine]

I want the blue pick-up truck in Part 1! :dance:

[Dera]

BTW, VOguy, your videos are fabulous. Very professional.

Oh the nostalgia. I am sobbing my heart out. When the '57 Chevy convertible went by, I nearly fainted. Friend actually had one in '57 and we rode around in it a lot!

My first car was a red '53 Mercury convertible.
Next, black '58 MGA
Red '61 Impala
Gray '68 Cutlass (ho hum)
Dumb little Red Economy Dodge Colt (Cheap, boring and gutless.)
'73 Navy w/ white Landau top Monte Carlo (with 454--talk about Zooom!)
'82 Black Camaro Z28 (Lemon)
'87 White Toyota Cressida (Sweetheart Japanese Mercedes)
'96 White Saturn that could be toad by a Motorhome (Still got it. Only has 33,000 on the odometer. Runs like a top, is very boring, but goes forever on a small tank of gas.)

Actually, it is my firm belief that grass should be green and cars should be red.

[Mcnowhere]

'57 Nash Rambler with continental kit on the back! Sweet first car!
'62 Ford Fairlane, green. OK
'62 Chevy something, baby blue. It sucked! I was poor.
Another Chev with souped up motor, year unknown. Black. Hubby's.
'79 Toyota Station Wagon. Grey. Had kids by then.
'81 Toyota Celica, Coup Back. Candy Apple Red. Deadly sound system. Single again.
'85 Nissan (The Hustler) 4x4 Truck. Black with gold. For skiing.
'88 Nissan Pulsar sports jobbie with T Roofs. Silver. Kewl.
'01 Chevy Cavalier, Light brown. Grandma.

I think there was the other odd junker in there too. Can't remember!

[VOguy]

Daddy always said that nothing was hotter than a red-head in a red Mustang. :) Oh, he was talking about the car. :D

I love these shows. There are so many great memories. When I see a car I remember from my past, I always think of something that coincided with it.

Case in point, the Chevy Deluxe. Our neighbor, Mr. Thomlinson had one. It was dark blue. He worked at the TV station in the town I grew up in. I remember him getting out of the car with a can of film. He told me to tell my parents to come over after dinner to watch it. When a bunch of the neighbors got there, he explained that he was going to show us something very controversial. It was a "test" of a new TV show on CBS, and it might offend some people, but he wanted to get our reaction. The show? "Hogan's Heros" starring Bob Crane. Now there is something really controversial.

Did anyone notice the golf cart that looked like a 57 Chevy? That was cool. It was built by Luxury Cars (http://www.luxurycarts.com), who also make a Hummer golf cart, for the man with a lot of complexes.

I'm fond of the 49 Ford or Chevy coupe. It reminds me of earliest memories of the car we had in the family.

Besides the classic "real" cars, the show also had some dealers selling 'kits' where you could make your own. Companies such as Street Beasts (http://www.streetbeasts.com/models.php) sell kits of classic cars. One of the best, (sadly I didn't get a video of it), was the company that took a Chevy S10 frame, and with some mods and the kit, gave you a 1950 Chevy Delivery Van. It looked pretty cool.

There is another show this fall in Lima OH (Still need to check my sked for the one out west).

BTW, my son was appalled to hear that I owned a Gremlin. Fact is, the Gremlin, with that AMC straight 6 engine, ran anytime I needed to go somewhere. Even started in a -32 degree Eau Claire WI winter. The worse car I had was a 79 Jeep CJ. That was when they had all their problems with the stick transmission that would break the index pin, and you would suddenly find yourself in 4th gear .... forever.

[Mcnowhere]

The worse car I had was a 79 Jeep CJ. That was when they had all their problems with the stick transmission that would break the index pin, and you would suddenly find yourself in 4th gear .... forever.

That would happen to me in my 62 Heavy Chevy. It was 3 on the tree though. I used to have to get out, open up the hood and bash something with a rock and off we'd go again. :drive:

[BeelzeBubbles]

Daddy always said that nothing was hotter than a red-head in a red Mustang. :) Oh, he was talking about the car. :D

Unless you're Richard Thompson & a few others, in which case, it would be a red headed girl on a Vincent Black Lightning. :)


I'm fond of the 49 Ford or Chevy coupe. It reminds me of earliest memories of the car we had in the family.

Then you may be interested in this. (http://bikenutz.com/shoptruck/) - or you may consider it blasphemy!-- '48 Ford couple a friend is tinkering with. When it's all done, it will be a rolling piece of American folk artwork, and I think it is particularly neat that he has the truck bed gate that the fella who painted thousands of the Mail Pouch Tobacco barns used while painting those now fading bits of American history.

Eau Claire, eh? For some reason I'm always running across folks from Eau Claire - beautiful area & cool people there. The city has some interesting spooky history, too, as I recall - doesn't it? I can't quite recall the stories off the top of my head.

[VOguy]

Interesting paint job. :)

[BeelzeBubbles]

VOguy- I have to share this with you- about 10 minutes after I made the most recent post above, I checked my email where I found a letter from a new internet acquaintance. In that email he informed me he was from- where else? Survey says! : Eau Claire, Wisconsin!!

[VOguy]

VOguy- I have to share this with you- about 10 minutes after I made the most recent post above, I checked my email where I found a letter from a new internet acquaintance. In that email he informed me he was from- where else? Survey says! : Eau Claire, Wisconsin!!

How is that? "There are no coincidences?" Ok, now the mystery begins. Why the link? :)

[BeelzeBubbles]

It's weird, I'm telling you & happens a lot. I handle my husband's business corresopondences, and a guy wrote from Australia. I assumed he was a native until he informed me that he, too, was from Eau Claire. Maybe I lived there in a past life. Or maybe it's just like people who see 11:11 - they see other numbers as much or more, but only focus on that particular number. But it does seem like I run across an inordinate amount of Eau Clarians (is that the right word?)--and they're all very intelligent & interesting people, usually with unusual hobbies or lines of work.

[VOguy]

First of all, I'm sorry for not posting this earlier. It's been crazy at work. Here is more from the air show in Toledo OH

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkpA30-7Kgw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sDdE1Q5WXI
Special guest star, my son Jon in the front seat of the Yellow bi-plane.

[VOguy]

The following was in a blog in The Detroit News. This car reminds me of the one "Grandpa" drove in The Munsters.


http://info.detnews.com/pix/blogs/mears/ratcar.jpg

Rat Rods are so cool! I had never heard the term before till I went downstairs at Autorama and saw the rust covered rebellion against the pricy customized cars upstairs. Custom cars that lack the glitz and shine of their counterparts, Rat Rods are an assembly of vintage, custom parts and some junk to create cars with character. Rolling, and they do actually work, reflections of their unique builders, Rat Rods are anti-establishment, anti-pc, but not anti-climatic. Take a ride on the wild side or at least a ride down the escalator and see what the fun is all about.