Back to the 50's pics - Days 1, 2 & 3

HAMB Meet & Greet during the rain showers.

 

I see my pals Lo Buk, Paperdog, Jalopy Jim in this photo. And of course my idol BobK. I sure enjoyed my visit to MN.

 

Great pics it was a great weekend except the rain sat. afternoon.

 

WWII fighter planes at Back to the 50's:
http://youtu.be/Hdc0Zqq2Lic


Bonneville Salt Flat Car from our booth:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA-SbkbtLJo&feature=player_profilepage

 

I feel bad, I totally missed your booth! Thanks for the Texans flying in formation, that was cool. I was at Titus' booth in the swap when they came by.................you know how to get 5000 car guys to look away from vintage parts? Fly WW2 trainers overhead like that! The scene was wonderfull!

 

Thanks for the pics... It was a great show, my first one... so much to see .
Every kind of hot rod and just when you think you've seen it all ... something new,different, great, or just plain wrong will drive by.
WD40

 

Nope, just commenting, your suspicions were not unfounded

 

Great pics!

 

Great Pics!!

 

It was a great weekend as usual, Found other things to do while it rained. Thanks for posting the pictures!

 

I'll plug in some more pics as soon as I get them uploaded

 

just a heads up - found this on a site total registered cars at Back to the 50's

"The Minnesota Street Rod Association announced that 11,512 street rods, custom cars and classics were registered in the show at the Back to the '50s Car Show in Minnesota this weekend. The number fell just short of the record set last year when about two hundred more cars showed up. But in a recession year, Back to the '50s proved how popular it is by putting on a great show in the face of a down economy."

can't remember the year off hand when NSRA was at the 50's the attendance was well over 13,000 registered cars

 

I'm not sure if this'll work...here's mine from earlier:
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=600196

 

Actually this year at the 50's there were 11,731 cars registered, about 60 less than the record from two years ago. The last time NSRA was in St Paul they registered 11,202 cars. The last time NSRA had a larger event was in Louisville in 1998.

http://www.streetrodderweb.com/even...rod_nationals_louisville/speedway_motors.html

 

well that's what i thought they said 11,731 at the drawing

then i looked it up on another site found this count 11,512

11,731 it is

 

I've got a rack ton of photos (1200+) that I'm posting. I tried my best the get them categorized into the proper slots, but some cars were tough to say which bucket they belonged in.

I tried to break up the photos the best I could. Here are my HAMB friendly galleries:

http://www.autotraderclassics.com/c...+MSRA+Back+To+the+50s+Show+Part+1-86172.xhtml

http://www.autotraderclassics.com/c...+MSRA+Back+To+the+50s+Show+Part+2-86199.xhtml

http://www.autotraderclassics.com/c...+MSRA+Back+To+the+50s+Show+Part+1-86182.xhtml

http://www.autotraderclassics.com/c...+MSRA+Back+To+the+50s+Show+Part+2-86202.xhtml

http://www.autotraderclassics.com/c...he+2011+MSRA+Back+To+the+50s+Show-86181.xhtml

And then just my report about the show overall:
http://www.autotraderclassics.com/car-article/Report:+2011+MSRA+Back+To+the+50s+Show-84884.xhtml

 

Kudos to Brian Medford of AutoTraderClassics for the BEST photo coverage of the BTT50's. I was impressed with his coverage last year, but this year he topped even that. THANK YOU BRIAN from MSRA L-1, Jerry Johnson

 

Thank Jerry, funny to think though that I only captured 1/10 of the show. It is that big. I took my family with me on Saturday. As I photographed a street line of cars I'd have them meet me at the end of the corner, then we'd plan the next route. I still didn't walk the whole show though. It just isn't possible in a 3 day period. My almost 2-year old son loved it. Unfortunately he currently associates all vehicles with open wheels as "tractors". That got some funny looks from people. Oh well, he knows how to work a manual choke though!

 

Always a great show... thanks for the photography!!

 

There have never been 13,000 cars there.

 

Here's a few more to keep the thread going...

 

Here's a few I took.
The Late 50's Plymouths were kickin my butt.
Growing up we had a 57 belvedere, 58 Golden Commando, and a 59 sport fury.

 

My car was 2 down from that Willy's truck, right next to the Nova. Someone must have bumped your camera!

 

Thanks for sharing. a bit difficult to look at the pictures with so many catagories.. but thanks for the all the shots.

 

Here's some pics I took.

 

Few more. Hard to believe it's been a week already.

 

Great pics

 

wedged you did a great job of showing the over all 50's weekend

the grounds early & later in the day, vendors & points of interest around town

 

Its kinda like walking around the Fairgrounds!