The 2016 Lone Star Round Up

It’s funny how the Round Up works for locals. You spend the weeks prior dreading the event and the work it takes to make it there and typically by Friday, you are just over it all and ready for it to be Sunday. And then when Sunday comes you realize two things. First, you are happy as hell it’s Sunday and that you made it out with your wits. Second, you realize that all of that loathing leading up to the event was just you being melodramatic and that it’s tough to find a better time than you just had.

And that’s saying something… I mean, the Round Up is pretty much everything I don’t typically enjoy in a car show. There’s thousands of cars in attendance from every imaginable genre. There’s thousands more in spectators that come from all over the world. And they all converge at a fairground with restricted means of ingress and regress. On paper it’s my worst nightmare.

But there’s just something in the way that Brian, Steve, and Will put this damn thing together that hides all of that. Despite the traffic and the crowds, it’s still fun. It’s still personable. It’s still a little car show in Texas. I wish I could tell you how or why that’s the case, but I can’t. It’s just a mood – one I’ve never seen replicated here or anywhere else.

Don’t ever forget to thank those guys for doing whatever it is they do. I never will.

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As for photo coverage, I didn’t do a whole lot of that this year. Instead, I casually walked around with little regard for the camera hanging around my neck. There was a lot of great stuff there, but the one car that really struck me was a ’32 Chevrolet sedan survivor driven out from Louisiana by Jacob Miller.

The car was built in Oklahoma in 1958 and raced until 1961 or so… It was then that fire somehow struck the little sedan and it was parked until it was found in 2010. Jacob has been the perfect caretaker. It’s a rolling piece of history in breathtaking condition. Better yet, Jacob drives the shit out of it.

Needless to say, the ’32 Chevrolet sedan walked away with The Jalopy Journal/Rex Rods pick. Both Keith and I were pretty honored to be the guys that picked it… There was a long line to do so.

In any case, that’s the LSRU post for the Monday after the shenanigans. I’m sure there will be much more on the event this week both featured and on the forum. So, stay tuned…