Event Coverage Watertown, SD-Vintiques Rod Run (photo heavy)

Awesome shots Tim !

 

Who is Lumpy ? This happens to be my car

I had a great time for the third year in a row. First time with the Roadster. It is a well organized fun show. I stay in a tent at the campground and love it. My wife is from SD, so it's like coming home for her.

 

Hi Doug, Lumpy was Wally's friend from the old Leave it to Beaver TV show. Your car looked great, it was nice to see it in person.

 

"Lumpy" Rutherford, shown here with Eddie Haskell and his 1940 Ford V8 De Luxe Club Convertible Coupe in the old "Leave It To Beaver" series. In one episode Lumpy Rutherford's car got its rear axle yanked out with a chain as the result of Eddie and Wally's prank. It was supposedly the inspiration for the police car sequence in "American Graffiti".

 

Very cool pics, Thanks for posting,
My parents were both from Watertown, SD. They moved out to the Arizona desert in 1962, had me and my two sisters then moved back to Custer, SD when they retired, I stayed here and my sisters followed. Looks like a nice place to live.

 

Thanks for taking the time to share this !

I second this comment !!!

That really made my day looking at all those beautiful looking rides first thing in the morning.

Thanks for sharing all the very cool photo's. Jimbo

 

Absolutely outstanding, thanks for the eye-candy!

 

Great Pictures! Thank you for sharing. Love Gribble's personal car...it could come stay in my garage anytime.

 

Funny.... I'm old enough to have known that .... but he didn't drive a 36

 

Great photos of some really nice cars at what looks like a great event. Thanks for sharing.

 

As always, the car show was great!!!! Thanks Vintiques. You guys know how to put on a car show and a rod run.

 

He is also now a member of the Lake Area Roadsters, welcome aboard!!

Tom ( the guy with the yellow `26 RPU ) Hey there were too many people you got intro to at once for you to remember.

 

The Vintiques put on one of the VERY BEST runs around ... sorry I missed it

 

Had a blast as usual, and I would also like to say thank you to the Vintiques for a great weekend. can't wait for next year.

 

One to put on my list for next year!

 

We have been to 18 of the Vintiques rod runs and have become close friends with the Gribble brothers. They treat you like family, we know their children and grand children. It’s always a good time and like others have said one of the best shows for our part of the country. When I tell my local friends why the wife and I travel to Watertown I say “ HOT ROD is spoken there”!!!

 

Great stuff, Tim --- thanks for posting the photos!!



Malcolm

 

Just a heads up for those of you getting on the tour bus at Lake City Rod and Custom, it isn’t going to happen next year. If you want to get on a bus you have to get on out at the lake, no more pickups at the shop.

 

It's just too bad (for me) that this event is the same weekend as the MSRA Fall Campout. Maybe I can convince my crew to check out SD instead one of these years.

 

Hi Tom! Your RPU looks fantastic, especially with the little PU box out back. Is this the same one you built some years ago or did you sell that one and build another one? I just talked to Randy this morning and he said it was out of control and the car count was something like 364 cars! I wish I could have made it back a week earlier but I'm catching a ride back with my friends here that are going through Speedy Bills Museum and another big one in Lincoln. Then I'm coming up to Sioux Falls and they are going onto the Henry Ford Museum and bunch more in Michigan and Indiana on their way to Good Guys at Indy.

 

It was a great weekend again..........good fun, 2 meals, garage tour, show uptown, poker run,Saturday night music... all for $35........ very well organized we will be back again next year thanks Vintiques!! Dale

 

Thanks Jerry. Nope it’s the Modified that I turned into an RPU. You remember what I said about the mod?? Me the wife and a tooth brush and it was full. Had an Model A pickup box that had seen it’s better days so I cut it up worked out the dents and stuck it on. Now at least we can haul some rain gear and a few other things.

I started on my 33-35 Chevy coupe project, it’s going to be nice to have something with a top again.

Tom

 

The yellow car looks great Tom!

 

ok, we've seen the cars, lets see some of the background stuff from the Vintiques Rod Run in Watertown, SD this past weekend. I had a new camera, and just had to keep shooting the things I saw that I thought others would enjoy. I hope you do...

this Anglia door was on the wall in Randy Gribbles shop, and this door has personal meaning to me, as it came off the wrecked race car of a good friend of mine. The car rolled pretty badly in about 1982 at Thunder Valley Dragways. Here's the door now, and then...















let's see if you recognize a famous drag racer from Watertown in this last photo....

 

ok, back to Watertown...

Randy Gribble has a bunch of machinery in his shop, most of which I don't know what they are called, and definitely do not know what they do, but, apparently Randy knows how to use them all, as the cars he creates are very cool...

If you know what they are, and what they do, shout out...
most of the machines appear older than I am, and I am an old guy...

I'll bet he could have his own HAMB Tech Week thread...












gratuitous artsy-farty shot...


looks like some serious business starts here...





this thing is as big as a Honda Civic...oh, wait, thats O/T...


How many holes can you drill at one time?






I think I saw one of these on Chop-Cut-Rebuild...

 

back to the garage tour...

sitting in the rafters in Gribbles shop...steel rafters, that is...



Vette at one of the stops---BBC powered...




in the same shop as the Vette...
very nice...
I'm guessing it had an Art Morrison chassis...


I see this one at Hardees most Saturday nights...nice ride...






really old Cadillac, I believe...


tubular chassis for a Vette, notice it has no axles...



bad photo, but they have 4 cars and a couple Harleys above the paint booth, must have some serious trusses...

 

Nice Pics, thanks for posting....Randy certainly maximizes his square footage! A lot of nice stuff and a nice guy too.

 

Keep them coming mcink!!!

 

If I remember right that lavender 5 window was wrecked really hard quite a few years ago and obviously brought back from the dead.

 

Yes it was, back in the 90s. Kurt Senescal, pardon my spelling built it. One of my favorite modern trad cars!