Calvin auditions for the Darlings Divine Burlesque Academy. Miss Cherry-Pop and Miss Fan-Teasy hold the old man up after a particularly arduous routine.
Thursday 20 August 2009
Calvin and friends
Calvin auditions for the Darlings Divine Burlesque Academy. Miss Cherry-Pop and Miss Fan-Teasy hold the old man up after a particularly arduous routine.
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John Swander has promised me a drive of his 5-winda for a couple of year and we finally got to go at it - 327 + 5 spedd and open pipes = lots of fun..............
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Bean Bandits and Inliners combined party held in the KOA grounds...........good food, great friends and amazing Margarita's!!
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As you can see from the clothing, it was actually quite cold on some of the mornings - didnt last though!
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"the duck tape" special as it became known, the first run of the meet, just taping up the seams...every little helps!
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First light on the salt, its the best time of day - shame the lazy blokes didnt see it that often!!
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Managed to sneak a couple of pics on the start line, did the rookie oriantation meeting which allowed me to drive the car down the salt..................
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Both cars went through tech without a hitch, inspection sticker being applied.........
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First light, first day on the salt, sat in line waiting to get on the "white stuff"
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Nearly there................after over 2,000 miles in four and a bit days the promised land is in site...........boy where we glad to see this sign.............
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For anybody that likes wide open spaces this is heaven, early morning, Cowboy Country - Wyoming, cruising along in hot rod heaven.............
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Lunchtime and giving the old girl a rest in the heat of the day..................
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We saw plenty of fuel stops averaging around 2 hours between stops...............luckily gas prices where down almost $.50 per gallon over last year...............
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Lake Erie area rodders showed out in force to meet and greet for lunch at the Quaker Steak and Lube.........
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Thats better, after a bad start (Ken blew his motor less than one hundred miles out and had no spare!) we got off down the road, we had an abundance of people with us this year including Mike(local lad), Alvero (spain), George (So-Cal) plus myself, John from South Africa, Peter from Switzerland plus boners Ken, Keith and Jim, Jims mate Bob drove the van trailer and race car, while the "high speed" division met us down the road they are the evil Billy'O plus Donny.............
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First day on the road, bit of a murky start..........going to meet the rest of the gang we have Keiths 3-window, Richie "food guy" Whalens fresh out three winda and Ken's 3 winda - pic taken from my old '39 "turtle" sedan
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