"Day-of-the-Ted"-Florida HAMB Guys Meet & Greet-Pics too !

Sunday, we put togather a Florida West Coast HAMB Meet & Greet party, hosted by our own HAMB'r "Ted Kempgens" at his HUGE plot of earth in Darby Florida. We had 12 HAMB's show up at 10AM, of which one was our Florida bound "SoberTOOLman" moving here from Boston. I was 4 miles from Ted's when I got a call from him saying " I just p***ed the Highway 50 exit, give me directions"! He had been traveling 2 days with his moving truck and trailer, living on Mountain Dew and Jolt. He had been in blizzards, had his moving truck and trailer side-swipped by a semi, ran off the road, ....and still made it here in time to have a blast with the guys.
My hats off to ya Brian, your a great guy!

Ted has a really big spread in the country, with a huge 5,000 square foot shop, a seperate paint booth, an a upholstery shop, a full ch***is fabrication shop and tons of cool projects. When he annouced "FREE DONUTS" ....the group quickley made the dash inside the shop, so we could enhance our man-ly figures .

We got the major tour of the entire facility, and the stories that go with each project that is underway. One of the lastest additions was a 'Pullmax' metal shaping machine, of which Ted let several of the guys have a hand at, and that was so cool of him.....Ted is a RULER !

Those of us that had cars finished to drive, parked by his old Gas station garage for a photo shoot. This building is the 'paint booth'

 

i think i want to retire...and go play in teds shop a couple days a week.........i had a blast ....rooster

 

Here you can get a look at poor-old-Brian aka"SoberToolMan" as he exits the beat-up Moving truck after 2 days and 1 night of no sleep and travel.
All I know is that I'm 30 years older than him, I could not do what he did any more.
He was really pumped and excited to finally be here, no matter all of the trials that he had encountered in the trip!

 

Here is our host's 'Gennie' 1930 Model 'A' Roadster

What a beautiful, original ....right down to the seat material, roadster.

All of the under-carriage is as mint as the top.....it's not very often you get to see a real, unmolested, original anymore.

I'll let Ted fill you guys in on the details, ........ Ted ?

 

Where do you guys get off having leaves on the trees?
And green gr***?
****.
Looks like fun. I wish I could have been there.

 

I was wondering what was taking you so long to post pictures Glenn. I'm all settled into my place now, and enjoying it. I even started my job today. Its nice to be back to work. Looking froward to Thursday night. I'm planning to be on my bike too.

 

These are pictures from inside Ted's shop........ first off, Ted's a 1st cl*** guy, a true gentleman, fabricator, racer, and a HotRod man.
His current 'revived' project is his altered-wheelbase-Chevy II street legal HotRod. This bad-boy is gonna ROCK !

 

Oh,.......and Ted's a "Striper" too ...check out his roll-a-round cart with all of the 'stuff' he needs to do it with.

WE are going to put him to work on some of our rides !

 

....more stuff....check out this ' Made from what we have laying around' beater..... a wood-framed cab....NOT....that's Ted ....nope, that's all steel, painted like wood. They are doing this rig for a trucker.

 

So.....how long has it been since you found a old dirt track race car with a HUGE tree growing up in the middle of it ?
Oh, and a '52 Crosley wagon sitt'n near by ( oh, I want that Crosley Ted ) waiting for some attention.

 

Man! You Florida HAMB'rs are having too much fun! Mermaid park last week. garage party this week. What's next? Show and Shine at Daytona Speedway?

Looks like fun.

 

some more pictuers.........

"Skip-o-Matic"s '55 Merc with a 500 Caddy
"RoosterRatRods" Red Oxide Model A Coupe with tri-powered Chev
"Elderberrys" Model A sedan is sweeet
Art's 'just like it was found after 41 years in the same garage" '31 Model A coupe ( full story coming soon to the HAMB)
and my Purple '60's style street altered 'A'.

 

Nice Job On The Photos Glenn !! Had A Great Time Ted

 

Is Ted single???? I think I'm in LOVE!

 

How many original '60's Dodge 4 door car haulers have you seen?
This one has history.....tell us again Ted?

Need a 24 hour-of-Daytona-ch***is?

How about a VW Bug !

A Bob-Sled ?

 

This is 'Elderberry's (Ed) Model A sedan, what a sweet piece...Chev powered.

 

We also made a run over to “Tunram2quad”-H.A.M.B ( Paul ) house to check out his 1932 Chevy Coupe body that he had got. He also has a couple of trucks, one being a International with a Caddy engine.
Check it out !

 

Also, we went to check out "Blue Jester" ( Nick ) '37 Chevy PU that's under-construction. Nick has a ****-load of parts collected and is real close to beginning to piece it together..... Nick ? ...you can fill us in on the details

 

Group Photo

left-to-right standing:

Art, Mike (HotRodMike), Ed (Elderberry), Paul (Tunram2quad), Mike (4T64RD), Dave (RoosterRatRod), Ted (Ted Kempgens), Myron SR.

Left-to-right kneeling:
Glenn (AHotRod), Skip (Skip-o-Matic), Myron JR (President of the New Tampa chapter of the 'Poor Boys' HotRod Club), and Brian (SoberTOOLMan).

We had a blast Ted !

A million THANK YOU's for having us at your pad !

 

damn we all need to hang out some east coast west coast HAMB meet

 

Yeah brother...that was a lot of fun. Ted had a ton of stuff to see and great stories too. The main thing was we're finally starting to see some like-minded guys coming out to play. I didn't hear one gold chain rattling all day.
Great pictures there, Roscoe! Thanks for posting them up. And the rest of you Florida hot rodders, come on out. We're having a ball. Join us for the Saturday "hot rod breakfast", the Thursday night "cruise", or our new favorite place, Teds. Mike

 

Hey guys enjoyed a great day. Theres a true bond with the real car guys, and it showed Sunday. What more could one ask for when a group like this gets together. Looking foward to doing it again. Little history to go with some of the pictures. 30 Model A roadster has been in my family since 1963, Was bought from a collection in Tenn for my mom, It was her show car and trailer queen for a few years, Original 1930 interior and top one repaint in1970. Showing its age now but still a sweetheart. 1969 Dodge car hauler was Richard Petty's Factory car hauler, Huge project someday. again enjoyed the day see ya Thursday Ted

 

Everyone had a blast,..... are you working on the Chevy II today ?

 

Here's something that's a little new for the HAMB, It's a 39 year old, 3,600 mile survivor from Dayton, OH. '68 428 tunnelport. The flip front was spashed without even taking the tapestripes off and an inpression of them are in the front fenders, along with the corrugated pattern in the cardboard they used to block the grill opening.

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http://www.TraditionalHotRod.com/images/PoorBoys/tunnelport428.wmv

 

Had fun at Ted's.
Me like Ted.
Ted is new friend.

Not only is Ted's place like Disney World, He is a gratious host and really cool hot rodder. An all around great guy.

"Viva La Ted !!!"

 

Ya know! ....if Ted had a little more land, we could have a Drag Race there

 

ahh hell lets have a poor boys billet proof there..............what do ya think

 

Maybe he wouldn't mind if we did a dirt track around his house!
That could be fun too.

 

Did Myron get signed up here yet ?

 

**** Skip ! .... I noticed a very LARGE field behind the shop