Rogue Valley Street Rods

Having spent most of the summer working on an addition to our BC home, at it’s completion, we were ready for a cruisin’ weekend with the ’46 Ford conv. and our 17’ Boler trailer. With
everything loaded in the car and trailer (including the pups and cat) we left Chilliwack at noon.
We breezed through the border and drove our favorite ‘Time Warp’ route, Hwy 9 south from
Sumas, WA., Everson, Demming to Sedro Wooley. As usual, we filled the larder with ‘Specials’
from the local food mart and continued down 9 to the City Riverfront Park RV site on the Skagit River. Our reserved space was taken, so we parked next door. It was next to a nice tree
for the pups and next to a couple we soon met…ironic that he’s an old racer I am sure we ran
against in the ‘50s. They are expecting several more family for a reunion in the next 2 days, but we are invited to attend. For dinner, we cruised downtown to the Iron Skillet for dinner. (continue reading…)

All week we’d planned, packed, and wrenched in readiness to leave for the Eugene Roadster Show, and
at one point, almost thought we just weren’t meant to go. Two nights of tinkering, timing and adjusting
had the ’40 Ford conv. starting, running, idling and sounding right. We’d hoped to get away Thursday
morning, leisurely cruise up I 5, arrive at our hotel for a nice evening meal and unwind a bit. That didn’t happen as it wasn’t til 7pm we got the car into the trailer after a hard time of keeping it running after I
put it in gear??? As we were already loaded, we headed north on dry roads, little traffic and drove straight to Eugene. Things went better here, able to use the large bus parking spot, we got our favorite room and at a reduced rate too!!! We watched an interesting episode of Overhaulin’ and crashed.
The Shilo breakfast fare was enough to satisfy our needs, filled my coffee pot and we were on our way to the Lane County Fairgrounds by 8:30am. Our hosts Kurt, Suzie and staff were all set up and after a few
hugs, we registered and were shown our space, a 3 open sided 20’X20’ area under a couple of large lights that will give good reflections for our Candy Apple paint. Being early, we were able to drive the truck and trailer along side for easy un-loading, laid the carpet and rolled the car onto it. We had a lot of help from their staff and had the gas and battery check done early. (continue reading…)

Seems we were destined to attend this annual indoor event even tho’ we didn’t register. Our friend
Ray Dalke planned to be there until his trailer was not available and his car became in-operable.
He and I made temporary arrangements to use my trailer, then added my truck and finally he asked
if I could take our car in his place. Due to some work planned on our ’40 conv., I offered to take
our ’46 Ford conv. if they’d accept our driver, they did, so loaded and wheeled up there Friday morn.
It was a tough trip, rain turned into heavy rain, some snow and slow going due to lots of traffic. We
bolstered our vitality with a great breakfast at Heaven On Earth café and arrived at the fairgrounds
just before 1pm. Met up with some of the Stray Angels and Umpqua Flatheads (the host clubs), were
greeted by many of their members as we registered and then directed to a great space.
Our set-up is fairly easy and we took our time as many of the fellows came by to chat, thank us for
coming and talk about the car. Three other RVSR members were also setting up, Butch & Kathy Steele
with their ’34 Desoto, Steve & Linda Olsrud with their ’67 Ford and Ron & Kristine DeVries with their
’35 Plymouth sedan. (continue reading…)

Winter Rod & Speed Show, Jan. 23rd, 2010

After a cold and rainy couple of months, we thought about a short trip to the coast for a relaxing weekend of planning spring flings, dining and lazing too.
We nixed that after the weather threats of heavy rains, winds and snows .
A flyer came for a show at the Linn County Arena where a group were raising money for a teenager needing medical expenses assistance. A 1 day all indoor event for rods, customs, antiques, muscle’s, bikes, racers and vendors was a good alternate and we’ve never shown here before. Sent in our registration.
We called Rich Bailey to inquire if space was still open to find we were still invited but may be in a 2nd building due to the great response to the show. So we made reservations and planned for the trip. Just before leaving, Rich called as they had moved all the racers, trucks and some large vendors to the 2nd building and we would now be in the main arena. I called our friends, John & JoAnn Marvel to come and bring their beautiful Center Door 1919 T. (continue reading…)

• • Welcome new members
  • Speaking of meetings…
  • 2010 Rod & Custom Show Review
  • News from the RVSR Boutique…
  • Scandanavian humor…
  • and more!

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