If you do collector cars, hot rods and antique motorcycles there are about a scrillion (that’s a big number!) Car shows, Cruise Ins and Swap Meets every weekend all over the country! And we go to a bunch of them! There are a few really good ones during the winter time but for the most part the show season for ‘hard cores’ cranks up late in January or in early February.
At the recent 2006 SEMA show, George Barris stopped by the Coker Tire booth to talk with Corky about the show and the #1 Batmobile sporting Coker Tires! Check out Corky’s latest interview over at the Barris Bilt TV Website, http://www.barrisbilt.com/. Once the page loads just click on the Coker Tire logo to view the interview.
Bearded Man drops in at Coker party
Recently a bearded man who appeared somewhat portly dropped in at the Coker Tire headquarters in the historic Southside of downtown Chattanooga. The white headed and bearded man’s visit was certainly timely since there were over 190 Coker and Honest Charley employees and their families gathered to celebrate the birth of baby Jesus and eat a lot of food and enjoy fellowship.
It looks like folks say the Inaugural Coker Tire Challenge was a huge success! This past weekend (November 9-12) rally enthusiasts in collector cars and hot rods converged on Chattanooga and the surrounding area for a great time with great people doing what we love best…driving our cars! Car guys came from as far away as Oregon, California, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, New Mexico, New York, Florida, Georgia, and Virginia. The 40 entries rallied more than 575 miles of the back roads of East Tennessee, and North Georgia during the peak of the fall colors. Billy Cothern (GA) and John Williamson (TN) edged out Brian Gomez and Uli Kammholz for the overall win and the first prize check for $2590.00.
The National Street Rod Association is a 56,000+ member organization headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee that focuses on hot rods n street rods and the celebration and use of same. The NSRA holds quite a number of events around the country that gather owners of street rods and companies who provide product and services to those owners. The largest and best known of the events the NSRA puts on is the Street Rod Nationals in Louisville, Kentucky. As many as 5000 street rods cruise in to Lewavull during the summer. You can read about our participation at this years Street Rod Nationals on an earlier blog post.
What happens in Vegas…..stays in Vegas….NOT!
You probably have seen the slick TV commercial by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Bureau. I think of a different spin on that TV ad. I think what happens in Vegas the week of the SEMA Show, doesn’t stay but immediately blasts throughout the world! Here’s why:
Corky Coker in Wichita – Great Race 2006
We found this posted by a collector car enthusiast and thought yall might find it interesting. This is a video of Corky and his wife at the finish in the Wichita, KS leg of the Great Race this year, posted on the video site YouTube:
Good Guys – Charlotte, NC – October 27-29, 2006
Jared “J-Rod” Cooley and Chris Knecht started out on Thursday the 26th at about 4am. The drive over to Charlotte went well…smooth sailing! They got to Lowe’s Motor Speedway about 10:30am. Setup was a breeze they just pulled up to the Nextel garage door, lifted it up, and went to town setting up.
Driven Dirty – Day Six, Last Day
Sunday morning brought crisp blue skies over the Grand Canyon. Everyone was up early for our last breakfast together at EL Tovar Lodge on the Southern Rim.
Ken Gross had invited his friend Rosemary Dery from Flagstaff to have breakfast with our group. Rosemary hand paints the absolute coolest leather jackets you have EVER seen! (http://www.rosemarydery.com). Honest Mike and I both determined we have to have one! Killer stuff. We will post pictures of our jackets once she is finished.
I started the day tryin to catch back up with the DDT after my detour to Somerset, KY.
The rest of the crew left Albuquerque about 7 AM after Posie hollered his usual “saddle em up boys!” The temperature was again a numbing 27 degrees. Mike said he couldn’t feel his fingers while he was piloting Double Exposure Deuce Saturday morning. Steve Moal and Brian Brennan were still topless in the little blue Moal deuce. Steve told me that the brief coffee stop an hour into the morning saved his day. He said they didn’t really feel cold after that.
