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!)
After finally calibrating our Autometer speedo, we kept the Duece below 80 to catch up with the rest in Springfield. Posie planned for us all to eat (remember we are eating our way to Vegas!) at the original massive, wonderful, amazing Bass Pro Shop headquarters.
Yep…we caught em… only because Mike built such a wonderful car and Joe Abbin’s blown flathead is performing flawlessly! She is runnin’ smooth! And, how do you spell perfect tires? COKER’s , of course! It’s all about the tires!
We met IKE the security guard at Bass Pro who asked us all to sign autographs and told us about his 55 Chev with Cokers on it.
We had some spot rain after leaving Bass Pro Shop on our way to Afton Oklahoma to visit Darryl and Donna Starbird at the Rod and Custom Hall of Fame.
Starbird’s Rod and Custom Hall of Fame is clearly a destination that anyone into custom cars should see! Darryl is a famous carbuilder from way back who has built some of the most famous cars ever since the 50’s n 60’s. The Hall of Fame displays the work of all the cool car builders from Chapouris, Barris, Coddington, Moal, Starbird,Magoo, Posie n all. There are probably about 50 to 60 way0out custom cars. I was in awe of the dedication to the art created by the greats.
We were drug away by Posie so we could get to Grove, Oklahoma to eat again! Dang…great food again! German food this time. Guess I will have to “roll” into Vegas!
From the road,
Corky
Read this on the SEMA update. Would have been nice if they or GR had mentioned the blog!
We’ll be ridin’ along. Weather is warm and clear here, nice place for a regional this time of year…
I’ll also post it on the flathead chatroom.
Steve & Janet
‘DIRTY’ RODS TO BE FEATURED ON THE SEMA SHOW FLOOR
Six members of the hot rod community—Scott Whitaker, Corky Coker, Kenny and Ray Gollahon, Mike Goodman and Steve Moal—are set to celebrate the grit of hot rodding through the POSIES Driven Dirty Tour. Instead of arriving at the Show with their hot rods on trailers, washed, waxed and ready, these drivers are trekking cross-country from Hamilton, Ohio, to Las Vegas each in a custom hot rod.
After a five day trip through locations including St. Louis, Missouri and Amarillo, Texas, the trip will conclude in Las Vegas when the rodders roll their road worn rods onto the SEMA Show floor with dirt from the 2,000 mile trip in tact. Automotive journalist Ken Gross, Street Rodder Magazine Editor Brian Brennan, and Powermaster’s Eric Eddleman will join the orders for the journey.
See the rods in the manufacturer’s booths in Hot Rod Alley, North Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center, throughout the week of the Show.
I found your blog thru the one and only Flathead Board…
http://groups.msn.com/FordFlathead1932to1953/general.msnw
It’s Heart warming to see an old Flathead Powered car taking such a long journey.
Kudos to the tour group and kudos to Your Engine Builder….
I will eagerly await any further postings and/or Press.
moe
Man !!!! What a great time ! I envy you all . What’s a little frostbite among friends , right ? Keep us posted as you go and I’ll look Fwd to the magazine feature sure to come. Wink Hobbs
Glad to hear the fattie is runnin as smooth as those tires. Can’t wait to see all these (well almost all) cars in Hot Rod Alley next week. See you there!
Dennis O’Brien (Truckers)