I ran down to the fairgrounds at noon Friday and walked around and took a batch of photos. Here are some of the Hamb Friendly ones and I'll post a link to the album at the end with the rest. This is what was on the grounds between 12 and 1 Friday and I probably missed a bunch of them. Pretty clean looking bobber truck running a six. A pot load of 55's on the grounds.
This T has been running around as long as I have been back in the PNW One of the cars on this years shirts and the reason I bought a shirt Weird Harold in his Chevy W
Nice family cruiser that cruised in full of a family. Iffy on Hamb friendly but check the engine in the next photo.
Not a Hamb rig but cutter than crap. A clone that might look better than the original Probably the hardest partying fire truck in existence. Survivor of many Saturday nights at Vintiques NW nats. They left the men sitting and headed to town grinning ear to ear
signs in the swap meet area Mopar panel, needs work Pontiac Fastback, I should have looked at this one closer Nice teardrop Abandoned Oregon street rodder in 100 degree central WA heat, bring on the Aloe gell. This was one cool trailer. 40's Mopars make nice cruisers Nice Effie packs a 500 CAD Yes I did like that little green truck For you young rodders who think you are cutting a fat hog with "Patina" and think it's the latest thing, this is the Granddaddy of all patina rigs in the PNW. Hasn't changed so much as the air in the tires for the past 25 years.
Last photo before the batteries died in the camera. Someone had an American Grafitti display going in the Sundome vendors area The rest of the 300 photos are here: http://s173.photobucket.com/user/mr48chev/library/2014Vintiques Northwest Nationals?sort=2&page=1
I would say Bill hasn't changed a thing on that truck in 40 years! Thanks for posting the great pic's . I would say Yakima is a very HAMB friendly place!
Love the pictures and the comments. Do people camp out on the grounds or do many just town the campers as a place to chill during the day? Stude camper trailer thingy was cool too.
Thanks for the pics. Looks like a great location. Gotta make this show in the near future. Also curious about the camping venue..
Thanks for sharing, my club goes over every yr but I have never attended (kinda hot). This might be the first time I have seen pics from this show. Looks like lots of camping trailers.
Thanks Mr48 - I missed a few of those. My well behaved boys were threatening to be not do well behaved so after about 2 hours we had to take off. Wish I would've seen that 38 p/u , not nessacerily for the patina but just to compare with my 39.. My lil future party boy asked if he could pose with the fire truck. They liked the idea of the teardrop And, sorry for this one but as we walked one of my guys yelled "Hey Dad! Check out this guys crappy car!" He was right.. Posted using my chicken and 2 cigs
That wasn't the worse "crappy car" of the bunch on Friday though. I won't show the whole car but this photo shows the general level of construction: Didn't get run out for the rug rat badmouthing a rat rod me thinks but people don't like even the junkiest of rigs being touched or climbed on. My kids learned that from day one. The fairgrounds is huge and folks have camped in that Oak park area and the strip down by the barns since day one in the 70's. We camped there for years first with a tent then with a camp trailer. There is also a big rv area out back that a lot of guys bring their big rvs into and camp with full hookups. Out in the fairgrounds different clubs and groups camp in the same areas every year and some have been there in the same spots every year for the past 40 years. When the gates close in the evening and they kick the spectators out the party begins and gets serious.
It wasn't an all in Hot Rod, but this '39 Chrysler was pretty skookum. I think it's the only one I circled back to see twice. Also, thankfully the only car that the wee ones touched was with permission, when he leaned against the step on that fire truck. "You know Gil Gonzales? Don't know Gil huh?..." Posted using my chicken and 2 cigs
Went to High School in Yakima in the '60s (East Valley), haven't been back since. Good to see the car scene is alive and doing well.
Thanks for the pics; my parents were camped there in their escape that they pull with their '50 Chevy hardtop. The flamed '40 coupe belongs to our friend Pete. I used to go every year, but haven't for a few years since I have young children and they're not much for camping in the heat. I plan on taking my oldest for the first time next year. She'll be 4 and should be ready.
I wish I could find more time to actually get outside and look at some cars. Thankfully though because of the cruise in the evening not all is lost.
I am wondering what engine was in the black 40 Ford coupe towards the beginning?? it had dual quads and what looked to be 2 plugs per cylinder.
From Wikipedia (it's a northwest/chinook Indian word) It has a range of positive meanings. The word can mean 'good,' 'strong,'[2] 'best,' 'powerful,' 'ultimate,' or 'brave.' Something can be skookum meaning 'really good' or 'right on! 'excellent!', or it can be skookum meaning 'tough' or 'durable. Around here it's kind of an old timey saying. Posted using my chicken and 2 cigs
That is a late model Hemi with a dual carb setup. Installed by a very capable mechanic and old drag racer from the Northwest that seems to put a Hemi in everything he builds. This time he went with the new style Hemi but just didn't want to deal with all that computer stuff if I remember correctly.
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