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Originally Posted by Bobw

Josh, It was nice visiting with you tonight at the Stillwater show.

hey you too Bob, lemme know if you wanna ride head down to north saint paul on friday with us, we will be leaving Back to the 50's at around 6pm to head down

Originally Posted by livingdeadguy

its like we either are being frozen to death or burned to death, but we survive (sort of) thats why i'm the Living Dead Guy

Darn! I was hoping Jerry Garcia was back!
Seriously you northerners are a hardy bunch. My wife claims Michigan as here birthplace!

Welcome, Josh. Anytime I hear about Minn, I think how great the Back to the 50's car show is. One of the best places in the US. NSRA has a Nationals there once. I been to the 50's twice. Long drive from Akron, Ohio. For those of you who have not gone, the park is basically a an old part of the city, houses torn down - sidewalks, paved streets and lot of big shade trees. Live music and plenty of crusin inside.

Originally Posted by heatwave

For those of you who have not gone, the park is basically a an old part of the city, houses torn down - sidewalks, paved streets and lot of big shade trees. Live music and plenty of crusin inside.

No, I grew up there, It's the State fairgrounds, it's the largest state fair, it always has been fairgrounds, everything there was built for the fairgrounds. Thats where they started the head on train wrecks you see in old movies, they did the trains to get more people to go, and then they turned it into the race track, that they ran asa and Mark Martin ran every year at the fair, which they have now ended. I went almost every year since I was 15, and went up to the year before last year, cause we moved to Tn last year to retire!

Back to the 50's is a great time, we would go on thursday when they were registering and driving in & out, then on Friday when they would start to park and set up their camping sites, then in the evening, go to N St Paul and park in there, where we know many people, and then saturday morning back to "Back to the 50's, and would walk the grounds and look at the cars, and then before sunrise Sunday morning you had to be at the swap meet to get the best deals before it started. which was in & on the race track. We have bought and sold trailer loads of stuff & bought & sold cars at the swap meet. We would drive our '47 KB-2 in and then park and pull wagons to haul all our stuff we bought. It was always a sunburn week-end! if it didn't rain. Always a Good time!!!!

Pat

yeah i go to back to the 50's every year, but this is only my second year with a car in it. And north saint paul i go to every weekend, thats the show i like the best i only live like 12 miles north of it and its scenic back roads the whole way with a top speed of 35mph

I grew up in White Bear Lake, and I just moved to Tn from living near to the Maplewood mall for the last 26 years. We use to play around Hugo when it was only a dot on # 61. I know Mike that owns Hugo Auto parts.

Pat

Saw your car a number of times over the weekend but never got a chance to hook up with you there (always shopping or roaming I guess),Sat was HOT! Maybe at another run-D/Gas

nice! did you have a car in the show?

Hey Josh, welcome here. There are several others here from RRR too.

No,First year w/o one as I am between cars due to health issues. I sold the 37 cpe and started on a 40 tudor b4 the cancer came back. I finished the kemo 2 months ago, but am selling the 40 and looking for a sixtes 2dr GM to replace it. No more fab work they told me. I feel fine now but still low weight.

Originally Posted by Dgas56

No,First year w/o one as I am between cars due to health issues. I sold the 37 cpe and started on a 40 tudor b4 the cancer came back. I finished the kemo 2 months ago, but am selling the 40 and looking for a sixtes 2dr GM to replace it. No more fab work they told me. I feel fine now but still low weight.

sorry to hear that but glad you're getting better