Posted with permission from Hemmings Motor News

We had another early start on the 2007 Driven Dirty Tour in Albuquerque, from the Hotel Albuquerque at 630 AM. Wasn’t so hard gettin up early since most of us are East Coasters with internal clocks preset a couple of hours earlier. It was still dark as we headed our hot rods toward the West and the Route 66 RoadRunner Diner. (see video) Ok..it is at a truck stop but was a great breakfast diner style.
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Amarillo by morning, out by 7 AM. Sound like a country song to you? Does me. Posie says we gotta go to the donut shop. They were all leavin’ when we came out of the hotel. Casey and i decided we didnt want donuts so we went west to the next exit to get coffee and a sausage biscuit. Casey ate the oatmeal she scoffed from one of the previous Holiday Inns. (more…)

This morning it was colder than a well diggers butt- 36 degrees starting off. When the wind hits you in an open car, it feels like it will cut right through ya. Casey and I bundled up like eskimos with face masks and everything. It wasn’t too bad once we got rollin’ and we only had a little ways to go to get to Clinton, Oklahoma where the National Route 66 Museum is. On the way there, we stopped to buy some oil and James Thomas showed us his 51 Dodge Coronet with a 350 Chevy engine. He did the work all himself. Great job James! (more…)

Day 2, Corky and Casey leaving Chattanooga:

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We left Wednesday AM from the Holiday Inn Express in Lonoke, Oklahoma. Sunshine for the first day since we left Chattanooga. (more…)

Down South here all the news media is talking about how dry it is and how the water reservoirs are super low and that it hasn’t rained much at all since the start of summer. All that had to be done to correct it was to get my daughter and i out in a completely open car with no top and it will surely rain… And rain hard! (more…)

This year marks the second annual driven dirty tour where a bunch of hot rodders driving from the East Coast to Las Vegas, Nevada to the annual SEMA show and then we plan on displaying our cars WITH the road dirt hence “the driven dirty tour”. (more…)

We had a great time last year with our then newly built “Double Exposure” on POSIES Driven Dirty tour, and will be joining them again on our way to the SEMA Convention. Honest Mike Goodman of Honest Charley Speed Shop and Honest Wayne Pugh will be driving up to start the tour at Dynamat in Hamilton, OH on Saturday, October 20th. Sunday night the crew will be making a stop at our headquarters here in historic downtown Chattanooga, TN, where Corky and his daughter Casey will join up in the topless Shafer 8…here’s to good weather! (more…)

When one of 12 massive aero-styled GM Futurliner vehicles (designed to transport the GM Parade of Progress show across America in the 1940s and 1950s) sold for $4.2 million at the Barrett-Jackson Auction in 2006, a new generation was introduced to the historic significance of this incredible vehicle. The record-setting sale re-energized interest in the remaining Futurliners and set into motion a series of events that allowed Coker Tire to once again be called upon solve a one of a kind tire problem for an iconic collector vehicle. (more…)