40StudeDude
08-27-2004, 08:54 PM
THE H.A.M.B. DRAGS…8-21-04…(we-lll-lll yeah, this is like a “story”…my story…besides I like to add thirteen cents to any story AFTER everyone else is done!). I kinda figure this’ll be the last post on this subject…and y’all missed one hell of a good time!!!
What to expect? We-ll-llll, since this was my first time at the HAMB drags, I really didn’t know what to expect but figured what the hell, let’s give it a try. So Dan (my brother) and I packed some clothes at the last minute and lit out. I expected a drag race –Yes! I expected a HAMB get-together –sure! I knew there’d be a motel party in the lot…definitely! Expected to see JimC and finally get to meet Ryan…expected to see Rocky and BobK fresh from Bonneville …expected Denise and Beatnik would be there…but didn’t expect to meet Tman, BellM, Levis Classic, Jerry, Weekender, Kerry or Metalshapes, nor see Sodbuster and his Dad…(and everyone else I met…) and didn’t really know who else to expect. Got surprised -- met so many HAMBer’s I cannot name them all (I suffer from advanced stages of C.R.S., ya know?), forgive me for my laxity…and I didn’t get to meet a lot of others I probably should have…and wanted to, but it all seems a blur…way too many HAMBers to get to know in such a short time…but it was MY extreme pleasure to meet every one of the HAMBers I did.
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I had seen pix of the Mo-Kan strip last year on the HAMB, expected it to be a podunk narrow little strip with dirt return road. Didn’t miss on the return road by much (it was narrow and ruff, but paved…at one time in its life!!)…missed on everything else tho. Expected to see bunches of “hot rods” and license plates from all over, and I did, but didn’t expect every HAMBer to be so friendly…I felt right at home and like I’d known these guys for a long time. Expected JimC would put on a great get together, and he did, but didn’t expect the streets around his home to be clogged with hot rods & kustoms…Jim must have some great neighbors…and he put on a great feed…even let some of us use his garage, hoist, welder and jacks…uhm, Atch, Beatnik, Ryan and me to name just a few.
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Expected it to be damned hot & humid (living in ColoRODo it’s the one thing I hate about trekking to the Midwest) and I grew up in Iowa, but was pleasantly surprised with the whole weekend. Expected to make the drive in 14 hours, but didn’t expect the drive to Missouri (from Denver) in rain…turned into a 16 hour trip and there wasn’t a dry spot in four states (went to Oklahoma after we missed our turn). Expected the whole weekend to be a huge bust all the way down there and why was I wasting my time and money? But it wasn’t…it was cool and cloudy all day Friday…Saturday it cleared even more. Expected to surprise a few people on Friday morning, because our trip was a last minute deal, and when we pulled into the Ramada parking lot for the garage tour to see BobK’s jaw on the ground was more than I expected (BobK and his pal Larry stopped at my home in Denver on their way to Bonneville a week earlier). Certainly surprised JimC, Beatnik and Denise too…and asked her right away if she brought cookies (I expected THOSE but ended up only getting three for the whole weekend)! At the Friday Nite get together at JimC’s place, I got Rocky good. HE didn’t expect Dan and I.
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Didn’t expect NIGHT DRAGS…under the lights!!! I hereby EXPECT next year’s HAMB drags to be once again UNDER THE LIGHTS (and STARS!)! Got that Ryan??? Reserve the place for night drags…sure beats 105 degree daytime temps. Do I hear any seconds on that?
Expected the garage tour on Friday morning cuz I’d read about it on the HAMB before we left, but didn’t expect twenty hot rods/kustoms going on it, spending six hours driving all over hell ‘n gone’s county roads, cornfields, and two-lanes and ending up 70 miles away from the Ramada in Joplin…WHAT a tour! Thanx to JimC and BenD!!! Didn’t expect to lose my drag plak on the tour -- nailed a dead skunk’s skull in the middle of the road and it went flying…and we didn’t expect to find it (bent but usable), but we did and continued with the tour crew. Expected to lay around doing nothing on Saturday, but WZJunk, MoJunk and Mrs. WZJunk had other ideas and the three state trip (Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma) was an all day affair. Didn’t expect to spend another day cruising around in the country, but what a tour that one was….and I’d rather DRIVE than sit around.
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Expected to see lots of HAMBer’s at the races…but there were more there than I saw in the parking lot of the Ramada on Friday nite. Didn’t expect the full-on race cars tho…one red Stude Lark in particular that cranked out 10 second, 132 mph runs…and I’d bet had to plant both feet on the brakes to make the turn onto the return road. Expected to see RootHawg make a lot of passes, but got there too late to see him run…seems gremlins got to him again this year. Expected my old Stude to run harder than it did, but taking it down to sea level didn’t seem to agree with it and even putting in Super Premium fuel didn’t stop the pinging nor improve its performance! Didn’t expect to win Racefab’s generous donation of a Ford motor…and I didn’t, nor did I expect to win the tranny (and again, I didn’t), besides I’m a Chevy man -- but must thank those guys for their generous donations and helping The Jalopy Journal. Didn’t expect to be worn out on Sunday morning, but I was and missed saying goodbyes to a lot of folks…expected to be on the road by nine AM but finally got out of Joplin at 10:30…went back and did some of the old Route 66 since we missed some photo ops.
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THE HAMB SIDE TRIPS
Think Ryan called the 160 mile round trip Saturday a “Reliability Run”…maybe for some it was…but my old Stude has proven to me many times that it does thrive on reliability…over 120,000 miles on that old 400” small block and, like that stupid pink rabbit, it just keeps on going.
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We did have a couple of small problems but nothing that prevented us from finishing the tour -- at the Starbird museum I blew out one of my new whitewalls…borrowed HRLC’s spare and limped back to Joplin to replace my whitewall tire with a used 15 incher. The worst part was I blew a rear axle seal at the same time or just shortly before…and either the bearing or the pinion started growling…then the tranny was overfilled shortly before the races, dumped tranny fluid out the fill tube onto the exhaust…started smoking about halfway down the track and about 80 mph…got rid of the local mosquitos tho and got the car back home with no major problems…did I say I got lucky? My guardian angel was once again riding with Dan & I.
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The garage tour on Friday was very cool, didn’t have any idea so many cars are being built in Joplin…nor there were that many shops in a town of 45,000…but the tour I enjoyed the most was Saturday’s “reliability run”…and what a sight to see 45 cars in front and behind me cruising old Route 66 up and down the hills and around corners on that ancient, famous two lane…stopped at the Marsh arch bridge, the only version of it left in the US on Route 66…stopped in at the restored Coleman Theatre in Miami, Oklahoma right on Route 66 and it’s reputed to be haunted…but I didn’t hear of any ghosts climbing into anyone’s hot rod for the rest of the trip (and the heyday of the Coleman Theatre was the 1930’s and 1940’s)...now there’s a story!!! What an interesting history that place has…I’m thinkin’ most of the HAMBers on that trip would’ve liked to spend more time there as it seemed like no one was in a hurry to get back into their cars. As it was, WZJunk had a schedule to keep and lunch was next, then on to the Packard Ranch and the last stop was the Starbird Museum in Afton, Oklahoma…that place has a history too, albeit from the late fifties forward…loaded with full-on Kustom cars that Darrell Starbird built, plus loaner cars from the likes of Zocchi, D’Agostino, Hines, Posie and many others…this place is a must see if you’re ever close.
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THE SATURDAY NITE DRAGS
The drag strip is typical of a stuck-in-the-sixties (my take) Midwestern race track…something you’d expect to see in a remake of a movie like American Grafitti and you’d think was specifically built for the movie — NOT Mo-Kan…the strip had easy access in and out and right off the two-lane, cornfields all around, hid most of it from view…wooden bleachers, a two-window concession stand, with decent prices on food I might add (nothing like being ripped off at an NHRA event), the announcer in the two story “tower” off to the right side of the strip was cool and got into all the action with his laid-back-let’s-have-fun attitude. The strip boasted a “water box”, a warm-up burn-out area in front of the tree, timers and a genuine Christmas tree. Most of the “racers” could run without a helmet and the windows down if they wanted to but you’d be stupid to not have at least seat belts in your hot rod. Roadster drivers had to wear a brain bucket and real race cars (14 seconds and quiker) had to have all the right safety equipment…but no one got mad at you and threatened you with expulsion for not observing the rules. The asphalt in front of the line was coated with rubber and the old Stude sure could lay a patch and LOOK like it had a lot of power…but, ultimately, it’s about cutting a quik light and a good E.T., more so than top speed. Made twelve passes in the ’40 Stude…best time of 15.6 and 90 mph and cut a .5151 light …once…(which is damn-near perfect), the rest of the time I had about a .6340 (and up) Reaction Time…. Did expect a bit longer shut down area…but when this strip was built, 150 mph was probably top speed, for a rail job…anything else was slow by comparison. At 90 per I had to pump the brakes like mad to make the first turn…missed it most times and took the second (and last) turn. The return road needed repaving BAD!!!! Mo-Kan drag strip was PERFECT for the HAMB drags…a newer facility (NHRA approved) would’ve killed the atmosphere of HAMB traditional hot rods and kustoms. I’d like to see Ryan consider some sort of bracket/dial-in racing/eliminations…it wouldn’t take that much to make that happen what with all the electronic equipment Mo-Kan has…that way HAMBer’s could really boast “who beat who!”
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As far as “real” racing, Kerry whipped my butt bad with his Hemi-fied 4-deuce fed ’31 Pontiac (twice). He put a hole shot on me on the last run of the nite (.5847 to my slower .6391 R.T.)…and he boasts of 19 miles per gallon out on the highway with that engine…I stayed with him (97.27 to my slower 85.22mph!) but he tripped the lites sooner than I got there. But then again I put it to BlakMerc…really bad. Hope I didn’t get any tranny fluid all over that nice blak ‘51 Merc, besides, Kustom Mercs should be low and slow…not drag strip challengers. Tommy McCrea (Weekender) pulled his yellow Henry J next to me at the water box and yelled “let’s go.” No. No. No contest! I can’t beat a full on race car, even if it came out of the mid-sixties. OK, wait, this is just for fun, remember? Now I’m game…I just knew I was gonna get beat bad…but I put a hole shot on him (.6522 R.T. to his slower 1.1047 R.T.) and he had a hard time catching me…but he did and in the last 400 or 500 feet or so played me like a cat plays with a mouse…I did trip the win light tho…(he let that happen…to boost my ego) and we laffed about that whole thing back at the pits. Thanx Tommy…got that one on tape and it was good to finally meet you and share some old war stories! Sometime during a hard run, Ryan thot he had a problem with cleaning off the face of his clutch…so he crawled under the car and checked it out…seems it just needed a bit more adjustment…
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WOULD I DO IT AGAIN/
Dumb question…I’ve been to a lot of rod runs/events/shows/cruises/car things in my rod running years (and for those of you that don’t know me, that’s getting dangerously close to thirty — I started in 1977 when I got the Stude road-worthy!!!)…if the HAMB drags were held three or four times a year…I’d be there…even tho it is a far piece of traveling (for me anyway), it’s well worth the trip. I can safely say you will not sit behind your car in your lawn chair and fall asleep! If you do, it’s your own damned fault for partying too hard the nite before. The HAMB drags are the best thing going and I think Ryan has lit a fire that’s going to be very hard to put out should he decide to. I may be wrong, but I’d venture to say he didn’t make a dime off this event and as the trak announcer said on Saturday nite: “Ryan’s the guy that stuck his neck out and committed to renting Mo-Kan Dragway for you guys.” If he did make any money…I’d again venture, it will go to support The Jalopy Journal.
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We left Joplin at 10:30 AM Sunday morn and rolled into the home driveway in Denver at 4:30 in the afternoon of Monday…had to make a few side trips to some of the more interesting junk yards/cars we’d seen on the way down…there’s still lots of old stuff (mostly early forties and later…all the thirties stuff seems to be gone) along the two lanes of this country…(and about eleven tons of old truk bodies), you just have to go look for it.
Yeah, I’d go again and look forward to next years event.
Ryan, there are only two small words I know that can mean so much and convey so much and I think I speak for all HAMBer’s at the HAMB Drags:
THANK YOU!!!
R-
What to expect? We-ll-llll, since this was my first time at the HAMB drags, I really didn’t know what to expect but figured what the hell, let’s give it a try. So Dan (my brother) and I packed some clothes at the last minute and lit out. I expected a drag race –Yes! I expected a HAMB get-together –sure! I knew there’d be a motel party in the lot…definitely! Expected to see JimC and finally get to meet Ryan…expected to see Rocky and BobK fresh from Bonneville …expected Denise and Beatnik would be there…but didn’t expect to meet Tman, BellM, Levis Classic, Jerry, Weekender, Kerry or Metalshapes, nor see Sodbuster and his Dad…(and everyone else I met…) and didn’t really know who else to expect. Got surprised -- met so many HAMBer’s I cannot name them all (I suffer from advanced stages of C.R.S., ya know?), forgive me for my laxity…and I didn’t get to meet a lot of others I probably should have…and wanted to, but it all seems a blur…way too many HAMBers to get to know in such a short time…but it was MY extreme pleasure to meet every one of the HAMBers I did.
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I had seen pix of the Mo-Kan strip last year on the HAMB, expected it to be a podunk narrow little strip with dirt return road. Didn’t miss on the return road by much (it was narrow and ruff, but paved…at one time in its life!!)…missed on everything else tho. Expected to see bunches of “hot rods” and license plates from all over, and I did, but didn’t expect every HAMBer to be so friendly…I felt right at home and like I’d known these guys for a long time. Expected JimC would put on a great get together, and he did, but didn’t expect the streets around his home to be clogged with hot rods & kustoms…Jim must have some great neighbors…and he put on a great feed…even let some of us use his garage, hoist, welder and jacks…uhm, Atch, Beatnik, Ryan and me to name just a few.
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Expected it to be damned hot & humid (living in ColoRODo it’s the one thing I hate about trekking to the Midwest) and I grew up in Iowa, but was pleasantly surprised with the whole weekend. Expected to make the drive in 14 hours, but didn’t expect the drive to Missouri (from Denver) in rain…turned into a 16 hour trip and there wasn’t a dry spot in four states (went to Oklahoma after we missed our turn). Expected the whole weekend to be a huge bust all the way down there and why was I wasting my time and money? But it wasn’t…it was cool and cloudy all day Friday…Saturday it cleared even more. Expected to surprise a few people on Friday morning, because our trip was a last minute deal, and when we pulled into the Ramada parking lot for the garage tour to see BobK’s jaw on the ground was more than I expected (BobK and his pal Larry stopped at my home in Denver on their way to Bonneville a week earlier). Certainly surprised JimC, Beatnik and Denise too…and asked her right away if she brought cookies (I expected THOSE but ended up only getting three for the whole weekend)! At the Friday Nite get together at JimC’s place, I got Rocky good. HE didn’t expect Dan and I.
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Didn’t expect NIGHT DRAGS…under the lights!!! I hereby EXPECT next year’s HAMB drags to be once again UNDER THE LIGHTS (and STARS!)! Got that Ryan??? Reserve the place for night drags…sure beats 105 degree daytime temps. Do I hear any seconds on that?
Expected the garage tour on Friday morning cuz I’d read about it on the HAMB before we left, but didn’t expect twenty hot rods/kustoms going on it, spending six hours driving all over hell ‘n gone’s county roads, cornfields, and two-lanes and ending up 70 miles away from the Ramada in Joplin…WHAT a tour! Thanx to JimC and BenD!!! Didn’t expect to lose my drag plak on the tour -- nailed a dead skunk’s skull in the middle of the road and it went flying…and we didn’t expect to find it (bent but usable), but we did and continued with the tour crew. Expected to lay around doing nothing on Saturday, but WZJunk, MoJunk and Mrs. WZJunk had other ideas and the three state trip (Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma) was an all day affair. Didn’t expect to spend another day cruising around in the country, but what a tour that one was….and I’d rather DRIVE than sit around.
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Expected to see lots of HAMBer’s at the races…but there were more there than I saw in the parking lot of the Ramada on Friday nite. Didn’t expect the full-on race cars tho…one red Stude Lark in particular that cranked out 10 second, 132 mph runs…and I’d bet had to plant both feet on the brakes to make the turn onto the return road. Expected to see RootHawg make a lot of passes, but got there too late to see him run…seems gremlins got to him again this year. Expected my old Stude to run harder than it did, but taking it down to sea level didn’t seem to agree with it and even putting in Super Premium fuel didn’t stop the pinging nor improve its performance! Didn’t expect to win Racefab’s generous donation of a Ford motor…and I didn’t, nor did I expect to win the tranny (and again, I didn’t), besides I’m a Chevy man -- but must thank those guys for their generous donations and helping The Jalopy Journal. Didn’t expect to be worn out on Sunday morning, but I was and missed saying goodbyes to a lot of folks…expected to be on the road by nine AM but finally got out of Joplin at 10:30…went back and did some of the old Route 66 since we missed some photo ops.
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THE HAMB SIDE TRIPS
Think Ryan called the 160 mile round trip Saturday a “Reliability Run”…maybe for some it was…but my old Stude has proven to me many times that it does thrive on reliability…over 120,000 miles on that old 400” small block and, like that stupid pink rabbit, it just keeps on going.
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We did have a couple of small problems but nothing that prevented us from finishing the tour -- at the Starbird museum I blew out one of my new whitewalls…borrowed HRLC’s spare and limped back to Joplin to replace my whitewall tire with a used 15 incher. The worst part was I blew a rear axle seal at the same time or just shortly before…and either the bearing or the pinion started growling…then the tranny was overfilled shortly before the races, dumped tranny fluid out the fill tube onto the exhaust…started smoking about halfway down the track and about 80 mph…got rid of the local mosquitos tho and got the car back home with no major problems…did I say I got lucky? My guardian angel was once again riding with Dan & I.
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The garage tour on Friday was very cool, didn’t have any idea so many cars are being built in Joplin…nor there were that many shops in a town of 45,000…but the tour I enjoyed the most was Saturday’s “reliability run”…and what a sight to see 45 cars in front and behind me cruising old Route 66 up and down the hills and around corners on that ancient, famous two lane…stopped at the Marsh arch bridge, the only version of it left in the US on Route 66…stopped in at the restored Coleman Theatre in Miami, Oklahoma right on Route 66 and it’s reputed to be haunted…but I didn’t hear of any ghosts climbing into anyone’s hot rod for the rest of the trip (and the heyday of the Coleman Theatre was the 1930’s and 1940’s)...now there’s a story!!! What an interesting history that place has…I’m thinkin’ most of the HAMBers on that trip would’ve liked to spend more time there as it seemed like no one was in a hurry to get back into their cars. As it was, WZJunk had a schedule to keep and lunch was next, then on to the Packard Ranch and the last stop was the Starbird Museum in Afton, Oklahoma…that place has a history too, albeit from the late fifties forward…loaded with full-on Kustom cars that Darrell Starbird built, plus loaner cars from the likes of Zocchi, D’Agostino, Hines, Posie and many others…this place is a must see if you’re ever close.
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THE SATURDAY NITE DRAGS
The drag strip is typical of a stuck-in-the-sixties (my take) Midwestern race track…something you’d expect to see in a remake of a movie like American Grafitti and you’d think was specifically built for the movie — NOT Mo-Kan…the strip had easy access in and out and right off the two-lane, cornfields all around, hid most of it from view…wooden bleachers, a two-window concession stand, with decent prices on food I might add (nothing like being ripped off at an NHRA event), the announcer in the two story “tower” off to the right side of the strip was cool and got into all the action with his laid-back-let’s-have-fun attitude. The strip boasted a “water box”, a warm-up burn-out area in front of the tree, timers and a genuine Christmas tree. Most of the “racers” could run without a helmet and the windows down if they wanted to but you’d be stupid to not have at least seat belts in your hot rod. Roadster drivers had to wear a brain bucket and real race cars (14 seconds and quiker) had to have all the right safety equipment…but no one got mad at you and threatened you with expulsion for not observing the rules. The asphalt in front of the line was coated with rubber and the old Stude sure could lay a patch and LOOK like it had a lot of power…but, ultimately, it’s about cutting a quik light and a good E.T., more so than top speed. Made twelve passes in the ’40 Stude…best time of 15.6 and 90 mph and cut a .5151 light …once…(which is damn-near perfect), the rest of the time I had about a .6340 (and up) Reaction Time…. Did expect a bit longer shut down area…but when this strip was built, 150 mph was probably top speed, for a rail job…anything else was slow by comparison. At 90 per I had to pump the brakes like mad to make the first turn…missed it most times and took the second (and last) turn. The return road needed repaving BAD!!!! Mo-Kan drag strip was PERFECT for the HAMB drags…a newer facility (NHRA approved) would’ve killed the atmosphere of HAMB traditional hot rods and kustoms. I’d like to see Ryan consider some sort of bracket/dial-in racing/eliminations…it wouldn’t take that much to make that happen what with all the electronic equipment Mo-Kan has…that way HAMBer’s could really boast “who beat who!”
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As far as “real” racing, Kerry whipped my butt bad with his Hemi-fied 4-deuce fed ’31 Pontiac (twice). He put a hole shot on me on the last run of the nite (.5847 to my slower .6391 R.T.)…and he boasts of 19 miles per gallon out on the highway with that engine…I stayed with him (97.27 to my slower 85.22mph!) but he tripped the lites sooner than I got there. But then again I put it to BlakMerc…really bad. Hope I didn’t get any tranny fluid all over that nice blak ‘51 Merc, besides, Kustom Mercs should be low and slow…not drag strip challengers. Tommy McCrea (Weekender) pulled his yellow Henry J next to me at the water box and yelled “let’s go.” No. No. No contest! I can’t beat a full on race car, even if it came out of the mid-sixties. OK, wait, this is just for fun, remember? Now I’m game…I just knew I was gonna get beat bad…but I put a hole shot on him (.6522 R.T. to his slower 1.1047 R.T.) and he had a hard time catching me…but he did and in the last 400 or 500 feet or so played me like a cat plays with a mouse…I did trip the win light tho…(he let that happen…to boost my ego) and we laffed about that whole thing back at the pits. Thanx Tommy…got that one on tape and it was good to finally meet you and share some old war stories! Sometime during a hard run, Ryan thot he had a problem with cleaning off the face of his clutch…so he crawled under the car and checked it out…seems it just needed a bit more adjustment…
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WOULD I DO IT AGAIN/
Dumb question…I’ve been to a lot of rod runs/events/shows/cruises/car things in my rod running years (and for those of you that don’t know me, that’s getting dangerously close to thirty — I started in 1977 when I got the Stude road-worthy!!!)…if the HAMB drags were held three or four times a year…I’d be there…even tho it is a far piece of traveling (for me anyway), it’s well worth the trip. I can safely say you will not sit behind your car in your lawn chair and fall asleep! If you do, it’s your own damned fault for partying too hard the nite before. The HAMB drags are the best thing going and I think Ryan has lit a fire that’s going to be very hard to put out should he decide to. I may be wrong, but I’d venture to say he didn’t make a dime off this event and as the trak announcer said on Saturday nite: “Ryan’s the guy that stuck his neck out and committed to renting Mo-Kan Dragway for you guys.” If he did make any money…I’d again venture, it will go to support The Jalopy Journal.
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We left Joplin at 10:30 AM Sunday morn and rolled into the home driveway in Denver at 4:30 in the afternoon of Monday…had to make a few side trips to some of the more interesting junk yards/cars we’d seen on the way down…there’s still lots of old stuff (mostly early forties and later…all the thirties stuff seems to be gone) along the two lanes of this country…(and about eleven tons of old truk bodies), you just have to go look for it.
Yeah, I’d go again and look forward to next years event.
Ryan, there are only two small words I know that can mean so much and convey so much and I think I speak for all HAMBer’s at the HAMB Drags:
THANK YOU!!!
R-