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:

Corky Coker at the Great Race

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.

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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.

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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.

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“It was 29 degrees when we left our hotel in Amarillo with Albuquerque, New Mexico in our sights. Corky and I had re-installed our specially designed lexan roadster windows in a 40 mph windstorm the night before so my guest passenger and I traveled in absolute comfort and the car performed flawlessly.”

“Famed Hot Rod enthusiast, authority, author, and all round good guy, Ken Gross has road tested and written about some of the world’s finest automobiles. He rode shotgun with me in the morning and took a turn piloting our Double Exposure Deuce in the afternoon. Ken related that the car handled well, that the blown flathead had a remarkable amount of torque and pep and that he was impressed. ”
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Friday morning Day Four, Honest Mike and I split up. No, we were not mad at each other. BTW, that photo of us arm wrestlin over the hood of our Double Exposure Deuce roadster was only a symbolic struggle about the two different numbers (founding years) and company logos on either side of the car.

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Country music crooner, Don Williams wrote a song called “Living on Tulsa Time”. Well this morning at darkthirty we were LEAVING on Tulsa Time. For the third day in a row we started with rain. Rural Oklahoma (near Tulsa) from the windscreen of a Deuce Roadster looks much like Tennessee except it is flat and not as green, and a lot more wind. Well,…I guess it doesn’t look like Tennessee at all!

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The weather channel this morning showed an illegal alien jumped the border again in Texas and worked its way up across Oklahoma and into Missouri….some Hurricane or maybe Himacane. They name em names sometimes too ya know. We didn’t hang around West St Louis too long to find out though. All of the Driven Dirty Tour crowd left the hotel at promptly 8:30 AM central time except Honest Mike n me. We headed straight for Lowes for supplies for our Official Honest Charley/Double Exposure Duece side curtains we mistakenly started without! A sheet of lexan (hard plastic) and a new roll of duct tape was just the ticket. The staff at Lowes was very supportive and helpful. We cut our new HCDED windows to fit, duct taped them in and hit the road with a double shot of Rainex on our windshield. Mike and I felt our delay was certainly worth the effort since it started raining pitchforks and hammerhandles. (That’s corkyspeak for rainin’ hard!)

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Why in the world would anyone drive North from Tennessee to Ohio just to  drive 2000 miles West to the SEMA show in Las Vegas, Nevada?    I will be doggone if it wasn’t cold enough to spit snow this morning in Ohio!  We all met up at first light to leave from Dynamat headquarters north of Cincinnati.  It was cold.   It’s dang cold in Ohio in November!   But we do have a RodTop on our car but obviously no windwings or windows so the cold wind whips on in!  Steve Moal and Brian Brennan are driving topless!  Real men!

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At the 2005 SEMA show in Las Vegas, Dutch Fenical from Posies, Scott Whitaker from Dynamat and yours truly stirred up the idea of each building a new nostalgia style hot rod. The “brain trust” decided we would drive all the way to Las Vegas and display the cars with road dirt (bugs n all) at the SEMA Show in Nov 2006. The year passed quickly especially the past few weeks when we were all in crunch time mode by burning the candle at both ends to finish these cars!

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