On a bleak Saturday morn, several RVSR’s met at Mrs Q’s Café for a hearty breakfast before gathering in the Rogue Valley Mall parking lot to cruise Al Erickson’s Fall Tour. Over 20 of us (in our daily drivers, due to forecast rain) headed out Hwy 62 to Central Point to Mike’s Farr’s new building on Antelope Rd. This huge facility will soon become Mike’s painting outlet with a brand new state of art booth due next week. When we arrived, Mike introduced us to Simon, an air brushing specialist who was in the middle of training 15 locals in the art. We viewed Mikes award winning Dodge Challenger and a customer’s 55 Chevy 2 door, tastefully finished in pewter and blue metallics. A real basket case wagon was on the rotisserie under construction with a 2 x 2 Mustang and another Charger waiting their turn. Expansion plans include another shop where all the re-building will be done in the new year.
From here we drove to some acreage just off Table Rock Rd, where Bernie Zieminski, a local entrepreneur has storage buildings and fields chocked full of relics from the ‘20’s’ to the ‘80’s’. We estimated this assortment was 400 or more with more at other locations he owns. We all wandered in and out of the cold unlit building where the more complete and better cars in his huge collection are stored, including T-birds, Tornado’s, Studies, Packard’s, Caddies, Merc’s, Lincolns, early English models, Jeepsters, a nice Cameo P/U, Vettes, Crown Vic’s and some special interest vehicles like a 30 passenger “Towne-trolley”.
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