Mark, Ha Ha, I've done the "walk of shame" many times. Trains always stopped running when I was just getting started.......
After about 26 hours of planes, trains and automobiles from Northern Minnesota, I made it to Japan. 4 days of business and it's show time! I'm game for the class photo, but I have to leave by 11:00 Sunday. Hard-wired Internet is pretty speedy in the hotel - gives a guy something to do when he wakes up at 4:00am.
Good news. Cars arrived in one piece, but more importantly, human rocket fuel in disguised box made it through as well! Lets raise a glass to the good 'ol boys down in Gatlinburg, TN and Junior Johnson for steppin forward with their best!!!
Are you sure your suppose to be at Mooneyes , seems more like Moonrunners is where your suppose to be .
Thanks to my fine tour guide J (IMFATDAD) I was able to buy some goodies at the Moon store and meet Shege and Louie....awesome guys. I even got to snap a shot of Loius' car at a top secret location. This weekend should be a blast.
We had a good afternoon... I am concerned though, you get to leave, I live here, not sure if Louie was serious about the "if I show you, I need to kill you" statement about that garage.....
Please take a lot of photos,,I always look forward to seeing all the cool cars & trucks at this event. HRP
Still shaking from the memorable drive from the port behind the escort from the Monneyes dune buggy, Dale makes his grand entrance......
Great friends, great show and great cars! Mooneyes does a fantastic job and - thank to the HAMB - I have coll new friends in the US, Japan, the UK andf Australia. I will post some video of Dale and Rez later. For now, ehere are a few of my favorite cars and yes, the last one is 1:25 scale:
The roadster in previous post (and follows), Arden powered, won the show grand prize. I regret my camera crapped out on me. Following are from my Iphone taken just before the show opened. Is almost impossible to get any clear shots while the show is open due to the mass's of people who attend this show.
WOW...I hope there are more pics posted! Did anyone from the US get to drive their cars through the streets or were they all hauled there? I've not bee to Japan yet but I'm sure I will go for work some day. I can't immagine the look on peoples faces if they were to see the Rocket driving down the street!
I'm in the same boat... My chopper buddies already consider this a yearly "must do" kinda deal. Damn I hate being broke!
Yeah me and a friend want to go next year with our RPU's. I told him if we can both get our cars to the mooneyes show down here next week, it may be realistic! TP
Great pix guys!! There's no way to truly convey to people whio haven't been, the just amazing extent to which the venue is just mobbed with the general public when the doors open. When someone does get up high enough to take a crowd shot, there's so many people that it is not recognizable as a rod show! thats why us gaijin always have the obligatory photo of looking spent and sucking air outside a convenience store, with a bewildered look on our faces! Good times!!!
Here's more pics of the big winner (a very good choice) and a couple others that caught my eye. Any body know who got the "Rocket pick"?
I got along great with all the Japanese rodders I met there, but the badass bikers.....not so much...
Too funny. But I got to ask, are we as Westerner's that bad of an influance to the Japanese. They use to be such nice people, always bowing all the time to greet people. Now this
Your question is a deep one, there is influence, regrettably the biker influence most emulated is "the bad ass".. I see this as a goof though, this guy has a great sense of humor and recognized an opportunity with a gaijin taking a photo...
No you got into my meaning to deep. I said it in fun. Not all people are bad. Robert Pirsig author of the philosophical novels Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (1974) and Lila: An Inquiry into Morals (1991). It will show that there's good in everyone.
I shot some video of the drive-in Sunday morning, but there was already a much better one already posted on U-tube. Whoever shot this had a much nicer vantage point a few feet from me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y-HKU9Hbc0
^^^^^ Teddisnoke, killer sounding Merc. Hey Rezz, last I seen you, you was wash'n clothes for the trip. Did you remember the tooth paste?
hahaha yeah i got everything ready at the last minute! This show is huge there was so many people it was incredible!
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