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Event Coverage On the Road from Austin to Rodder's Journal Baltimore

Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by Tom davison, Sep 22, 2014.

  1. @Tom davison & @El Jefe - Thanks for taking us along on your "adventure" ... Please keep the updates coming!
     
  2. El Jefe,

    looks like your ride is running cool. Have a good trip.
     
  3. Eric H
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    Very exiting. Thank you.
     
  4. Tom davison
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    Steve and Brian, looking forward to you passing us; however, watch out for cops in Tennessee. That state is a long, skinny speed trap!
     
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  5. Safe travels!
     
  6. Tom davison
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    Bristol, Tn...iPhone image.jpg
     
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  7. motoandy
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    Safe travels.
     
  8. WDobos
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    I'll be there also in the old 60 SDL
     
  9. Too cool! Keep the pics coming. Wish I could be there.
     
  10. BLAKE
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    Sorry to hear about Merc, Steve, but doubling up in The Jewel is gonna make for much better road stories...
     
  11. Tom davison
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    We were approached by a PPG rep in this gas station, we tried to get free paint and all I got was this lousy decal!!

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  12. 39-2dr
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    Sorry about your Merc, Steve. At least you have a kool ride to continue with. At least you were close to home when your Merc got ill. I've only been to three events this season. I drove it to Pete & Jake's for the openhouse in May. I attended Greaserama and Starliner with a finished interior. Hope to go to Denton in November. I hope you all have a great trip. Be safe.
    Herb
     
  13. 39-2dr
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    Tom, I had a PPG rep bug me at a show years ago. He wanted to know how I got the look on the car. I told him; not buying your overpriced paint. I told him that his company had good chemists. They should be able to figure it out. He left.
     
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  14. We stopped for lunch in Waco - then got on down the road... Bummed about the 41 bailing on us, but The Jewel is running strong.

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  15. Drive safely and we'll see you Thursday in B-more.
     
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  16. TexasSpeed
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    This is the stuff dreams are made of..
     
  17. Great stuff, guys. Looking forward to seein' you in Baltimore.
     
  18. BLAKE
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    That rep obviously had no idea who he was talking to...

     
  19. Tom davison
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    On the road west of Roanoke. image.jpg
     
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  20. Tom davison
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    Blake, he was cool, he came up to me first and said, "what kind of paint is it?". I said I don't know, probably HOK.

    Then, I saw he was wearing a PPG shirt and asked Lee, and Lee confirmed that he did indeed use PPG.

    Why PPG? Well, when we first painted the car in '67, we used Ditzler clear; subsequently, Ditzler was absorbed by PPG, so to be the same as the original paint, PPG was the only choice!
     
  21. Coming up 81? That's a nice drive.
     
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  22. barfers
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    looks super fun
     
  23. Hope you can dodge the rain we are getting on the coast.
     
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  24. ..............................Looks like they will be good coming up I-81.....until later today and tonight if they've reached B-more.:)
     
  25. Tom davison
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    It is indeed, Andy! Lots of landscape shutter clicks from the shotgun side.
     
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  26. cory27t
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    Man this looks like such an awesome roadtrip
     
  27. BLAKE
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    Exactly... and surely that deserves more than a damn decal!! :)

    Keep the pics coming, and we'll see you guys on Friday!
     
  28. Tom davison
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    I find it amazing to be able to blog from the road all the time... Out west there are wide swaths with no phone signal for hours.

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  29. Tom davison
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    Blake, if I didn't mention it when you posted them, I loved you shots of the freshly completed Nomad.
     
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  30. Mr48chev
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    That's what's it's all about, a great road trip in a custom or hot rod ending up at a great event. Thanks for sharing the photos and tales of the trip.
     

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