Event Coverage KKOA Leadsled Spectacular 2008.....A messload of pix

Here are a mess load of pix from the KKOA Leadsled Spectactular today........neat event........saw TONS of guys from the midwest area.......It was sorta' a "banshee" trip to Salina, Kansas.....got some parts from "carkiller" then drug them to the car and then looked up BobK.......saw Denise and Megan and Malcom and the other guys from up north....Jay started to tell his lighting strike story with the long version.......George Barris took a pix of my wife from far away while "Zooming" the camera.......hahahaha.......I told her look over there George is taking your pix.......she busted him and the he sorta' acted like he did not take a pix of her......oh well........

Chris Nelson
Kansas

First.........

Bill Hines and chopping the top.

Bill again.

Some car from Texas<<<<<DAMN fine.

It is a more-door? Cool.

 

The Matador.........pretty cool to see it.

I wish that I would have taken more pix of the Matador, but the rain was kind of moving in. I found this "Vintage" shot on the HAMB from searching......Cool.


Yea, yea I know that I wasted my memory card space, but what the F*%k.......it had a barb wire roof........I had to chuckle.

 

Second pix.....the Jeter boys........I was going to stop and say hi earlier, but I had a handful with 40' Ford Drums from "carkiller".

This green car was a Jeffries custom........but I swear that it looks like "Brewsir's" old car from Calif.

 

Pretty good....so far!!!

 

40' Panel........

A Model A coupe that has been around the midwest for a while.

Hines..........damn again.......the guy is still chompin' the cigar and paddle-ing lead. Cool.

 

Some of the "Beatnik's".

 

Neat shoebox........and the guys hazed Jen for not helping me carry the "greasy" 40' Drums to the car........the wife had white pants on and there is no way that I would have asked for help.....even though she would have.

El' Jefe's car before the rain hit.

A very fine looking 40'

 

Fast Freddy from the HAMB.......

The Jeter boys cars from ColoRODo.

I very nice vert.

 

I went to school with Bill Hines grandsons. They graduated before me. My dad went crazy when I introduced them to him.

 

Thanks for posting those.

 

Very cool, thanks.

 

Oh yea, and we met Stella Stevens.........Wow......she had some great pictures.......but, she has not "aged" well.

And I saw the McPhail "T".......Very, very cool.........I could not get a pix as Dennis was driving out of the event.

Mental note to self........stop in Salina on the way to Bonneville for gas, it was only $3.65 and the E85 was $2.89.

http://www.stellastevens.biz/gallery.html

Chris

 

Stella Stevens and Paul LeMat

 

Thanks for posting.Wish I was there.

 

I see Cushenberry's "Silhouette" was there. I always liked that one!

 

I was at the auction when the guy bought that merc (the one being chopped) it was a good 6 inches into the ground and it looks like is has the same tires on it that were in the dirt! ill post pics of it in the ground if anyone is interested.

 

Yeah, that's the same car that sold for $7500 at that farm sale. Looks chep now. Show us your photos of it before.

 

Thanks for posting the pics. Was my first time there and had a great time!

 

Hey,

Great pictures and thanx for posting them, kinda makes me wish I was in
Kansas!

Can anyone advise, in the picture of "The Matador", the one with the
gentelman standing in front of the AMT building, is that one of the Alexander Brothers or the late Bud Anderson?

Thanx,

Swankey Devils C.C.
"Meanwhile, back aboard The Tainted Pork"

 

Very Cool!

I had to chuckle at the fact that an 80 year old man was chopping a top at a car show instead of relaxing or something... but he probably loves to work..

 

Cool pix. I have a bunch of the Matador from the Turkey Rod Run in 1992 I think it was. Some guys hate t, but it is still one of my favorite customs.

 

He would get the young guys lined out in the morning before it got too hot and then would stay under his E Z Up tent with his wife selling his t shirts and posters until they needed his advice. He laid out all the lines where the cuts were to be made and etc. It was way too hot for him to be outside working. I bet he can get more done at home in a shop.

 

gues he's know's his limits these days... and it's a way og passing on his skills I suppose

 

Nice pics Chris. Wished I could have made it up but had previous commitments.

 

Bill Hines is an inspriration

 

Thanks for the pics, Chris! It was great to see you and Jen again and I look forward to seeing you two at Bonneville...

Malcolm

 

No doubt. Major props to him for as noted, showing another generation how to do it correctly.

I imagine there are many who would pay him to work for him for a bit.

 

I saw "Twisted Okie" and the "Transmission kid".....and asked where you were at and they said that you were at a local show.

See you at the Drags....

 

Yeah, I think George likes the ladies. . .nothin' wrong with that!!

 

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