Rogue Valley Street Rods

The local ‘Fishwrapper’ advertised a run, right in our back yard, the Twin Creeks Park is less than a mile away from our house, all the proceeds go to charity so our kind of event. After over 3 months of visiting clinics, Dr.s, hospitals and the like due to the ‘Better Half’s’ current condition, a much needed venue was very necessary to retain my sanity!!!

Our ‘Trailer Queen’ ’40 Ford Deluxe Conv. needed to be driven and the all well paved roads to the park promised me no ‘Road Rash’ as long as I led the way. Friday was spent getting it ready, checking all fluids, fresh gas, battery up, start, run in, load with chairs, signs, cooler, camera, check cleaning items, cloths etc. you all know…the usual routine prior to heading to a show, and it’s ready!!!

Rose early Saturday morning, dressed expecting a hot day, backed the car out to the driveway just as neighbor Roy arrived in his fresh ’40 Ford Coupe. We wanted to take an open tent for shade, but the one I have is so large, it wouldn’t fit in either of our cars, so we headed down the road. At the next street, here comes a line of other RVSR club members led by neighbor Crock Hunter. We arrived at the park as a group and all got to park together. Fortunately, they had a push-up open tent cause by 10am it was in the high 70’s.

The large green space grassy area surrounded by nice homes built here in the last 3 years is wide open, not a tree in sight and the show is already sporting about 60 early-bird vehicles. I was ushered onto the grass and although I was to form a new row, ended up finishing the line of 10 Vintage Tractors, LOL. It didn’t bother me as most of the owners are also neighbors of mine. After setting up, Roy and I went to register and got a really nice Goody Bag and an event T shirt too. We got draw prize coupons, checked the vendors, food stands and headed back to our cars. I got out my cleaning cloths and had just started to wipe off fingerprints etc. when my builder buddy, Tommy Carr came up and took over. He polished it from front to back while I was able to chat with several spectators who were ogling the blazing, bright in the sun, Candy Apple paint he’d applied for us. Such a good friend.
It was another plus for us as Tommy had driven his ‘still under construction’ A Tub there for it’s 1st run!!! The frame and running gear is coated with a stunning Lime Green pearl, but the body is still in cream primer. It also commanded a lot of attention with the special body mod’s he’s in-corporated, un-like many others I’ve seen.

Our dash plaque was our award, as it should be at more shows, but if there was a trophy based on “Your ’40 is the Best Car Here’ we’d have won hands down. But it is enough praise for me that so many like the car, the mod’s we’ve done, the colors, the interior by Jerry and the McLean wire wheels (just had to add that remark Tommy).

We joined Crock, Scotty, Gary, Frank, and the ladies in their shade and yakked for a lot of the afternoon constantly checking our tickets to see if we’d won. Roy was one of the lucky ones in our group. A few more RVSR’s were there, Jim Bieg, Mike LaPlante, Steve Olsrud so we were well represented as usual. The smell of frying onions lured us to get lunch so we followed our noses to the cook shack where the local State Police were broiling burgers, very tasty, a good size, came with chips, a cold drink and all the fixin’s for $5 with all the income going to the cause!!!