My wife told me when we were back on the ferry talking about the weekend that she has never heard me say so many time "now that's a beautiful car". And it's so true. There were so many beautiful cars there.
We hadn't even been there half an hour when I started looking at HAMBer, Thompson Speed Shops black 3-window, I was pacing around the car, kneeling down, shooting photos, and saying " LOOK at this thing! Just look at it! This car was done back when, I KNOW it was..." she looked at me, turned to Emily and said "Forget it, hes gone, hes in another world..." She just rolled her eyes and headed up to the room.
The absolute best time to walk around was on Sunday morning at about 545-8am. No tourists....just car guys parking their cars, wiping them down and shootin the shit. And most of the cars were there by then. At 10am, my wife and daughter went on the Ladies Poker Walk(Yes!). And my dad and I got to wander around and lose ourselves in the cars!!! It was great.
We took my kid for a carriage ride on Saturday, BIG mistake. The guide told her this pub up the street had three ghosts in it. She was a-ok till I turned out the lights on Saturday night, then she started in asking me about ghosts. Poor little monkey was totally FREAKED. Not a word of exaggeration, I was up with her till 3am before she finally fell asleep. So I kinda slept in on Sunday...
Coho loading up the cars in Port Angeles. Right side up. Dang cell phones seem to send a lot of pictures up side down.
I mainly took pictures of individual pieces to steal ideas, but here are the completes I took. The 20's dodge was really cool, all stock fenderless car with the axles on top of the springs.
Never heard of these so I looked it up, a bit of an odd little duck, but pretty neat. That rear roofline resembles early 50's Mopars.
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Much better! I was lined up on this one car, and a guy walks up and stops right before he steps into frame, so I assume he sees what I am doing so I press the shutter just as he steps right into the picture. I have never attended a show where so many people were COMPLETELY oblivious to people taking photos.
After 10,000 Orientals taking photos you start ignoring everybody. I put my camera away after 10:00. There was just too many people to bother. But then I've been looking at everybody else's pictures of cars I didn't shoot. So thank you for that.
I had just finished taking a pic on Sunday when this fat white chick strolls in front of me and says" you are wasting your time trying to take pictures" in a really snotty condescending tone. I thought about telling her she was waddling too slowly and I already had my shot.... I took the majority of my pics on Friday and Saturday.
WOW. it is all over so quickly. We were so waiting to go that we actually went a day early and I am glad we were there as the rest of the event went by so quickly. We saw old friends and made new friends, all in a to short period of time. If only I knew it was going to happen in 3 years again, I would be O.K. with that and I hope I didn't just witness the last event. AL CLARK, Thank you - all my H.A.M.B. buddies, Chev Bucket, Internet, DeuceDreamer, Falcon George (didn't get to meet some of you guys but I feel like I know you), and even Can't Spell who was off at a stupid wedding in stupid Baniff. B.C.is the location I will be in in 3 years, the good lord willing. I have been to a lot of car events around the world and this is the finest of them all as far as I am concerned. My wife totally agrees. We titled this thread "Canada or Bust" and we survived. but at our hotel there was a guy from Spokane who reacted to a sign along the road on the poker run to turn them over and he went over the top as his motor expired mid burnout and he had the pictures to prove the rods exited from the block, "BUST". But on the positive side they had enough beer at the hotel to drown their sorrows. H.A.M.B. friendly cars were there in big numbers and if you could't find something you liked it was your own fault. To everyone watching this thread, the event lived up to it's expectations, X 2!! and in the event that it does happen again in 3 years, do you very best to get there, you will not be disappointed. On a side note, does anyone have an overall photo of the show and shine after the poker run? We were to blown away to take photos, and that may of been the most spectacular display of hot rods all weekend. We saw a drone flying above, maybe someone could share that footage. Off my soapbox, looking forward to see what develops in 3 years. Thanks for all the thoughts, posts, photos, etc. on the tread. It's been a fun ride, happy hot rodding........USMERCUTE
Was that the maroon Deuce sedan that was on the roll-back in the lot behind the Days Inn on Saturday?? If you were at the Days Inn we probably walked right past each other a couple times, I was bouncing between that parking lot and the parking lot of the Royal Scott a LOT on Friday and Saturday evening. The drone was flying over Clover Point when everyone was leaving too. I saw the guys launch it, a couple were wearing club jackets, but I didn't look that close to see who they were.
I talked with the guy flying the drone at the car show after the poker run. He told me the footage would be on the DVD which he said could be ordered online after the event. Posted using the Full Custom H.A.M.B. App!
This is the only picture I have of the show after the poker run. When I took that picture, there were a ton of cars that had already left and a ton of cars still arriving! It was great.
Thanks for the pics of the poker run. We never finished it. After 3 hours cruising in the car, the kids were hot and tired so we bailed out and went back to the hotel for a swim. Was a good time and was so cool to get to cruise down those beautiful sea side roads and see the areas of Victoria that you wouldn't normally see. Also very cool to see all the locals out in their front yards sitting in lawn chairs and waving and cheering. The kids loved it. Internet, great to meet you on Sun. Sorry I didn't chat more, I was exhausted and kind of out of it without my morning coffee yet The car looked great.
Thanks for thinking of me. My trip hasn't been that bad. My wife and kids are having a great time. I'll definitely be there in 2019! I've seen a lot of great pictures and that takes away some of my pain.
When I'm shooting pics I like to carry a cattle prod, available at Princess Auto. Works like a charm.
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