Any Fall shows to go to?

[Mike P]

We made it to the car show. It was cloudy all day and had about 10 minutes of light rain but it was worth it. I expected Cade to be pretty bored after a couple of hours but he had a great time and we ended up spending 7 hours there. What was really neat was that it was pretty much just hanging out, no yard work or working on cars just looking at other peoples work and getting a chance to talk. I saw a lot of old friends and Cade ran into a couple of the kids he goes to school with. He was also pretty impressed with some of the chassis dyno pulls.

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The 57 was in the 49-59 modified class which as usual was about the most populated. I told Cade before we left that there would be a lot of really nice cars in the class we would most likely not be bringing home a trophy. Cade got it.......we were there just to have a good time. I pointed out some of the cars in the class when we were walking thru so he had some idea what I was talking about.


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I actually spent too much time looking this one over ........brought back a lot of memories of the 58 mild custom I built several years ago. The problem is I know where there is another 58 Del Ray 2 dr shell sitting and I have a line on a couple of old W motors, or a big block, or maybe even a LS. I know I have supposedly sworn off any more major projects....but maybe one last project (honest doc I can quite any time )


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We stuck around long enough for them to award the trophies.......I'll be darned if we didn't get the second in class. Getting the plaque was neat, but having Cade there when I did was even better.


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And Mike yes he has mentioned eventually having the Mustang II done enough to put in a show someday. We had a good enough time that we're going to take the 37 to a little local show in November.




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