Event Coverage Official Vintage Torque Fest Thread May 3-4, 2013

A couple cell phone pics from Sat untill I figure out how to get pics off the new Nikon.


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Had a great time at the show. Glad I got to meet a few fellow hambers. Thanks to John for putting on a great show.

 

I made it Saturday. The Merc performed flawlessly. Every time I think about selling her, all I need is a good road trip, and Dubuque/TorqueFest was perfect.

Had a great time, as always. The fun/value quotient was higher than ever! Kudos to the volunteers and organizers who made it happen.

Walt

 

Thanks to everyone that stopped by the Kustom Image Upholstery booth. And all the comments on jeffs yellow model A coupe that was inside..!!! A big thanks goes out to steve for putting out a price of $1800 that was the winning bid on my donation to the auction...!!!!!

 

Thanks John for a great show! Time to head back east!

 

What a d#ck I brought my car up for the show had a great time despite the weather and its for a great cause. We will be back next year for sure and made great new friends and memories. I have to say I think it was well worth the trip.

 

A huge thanks to the whole Hamb fam. It was a blast to meet new people and a huge thanks to John for having this show and inviting us we will be back for sure.

 

a few more sat pics. imho best show yet. the grounds are perfect. plenty of room. lots of venders. and events. thanks jon

 

I was fortunate to make friends with iarodder and Verno30. I also had the misfortune of visiting with Hotrodeo...just kidding Ed

 

We were only able to do the day on Saturday....but drove down 4 hrs from Northern WI, had a great day, talked to alot of people, got the tailgate lettered for my '38 by one of the vendors (stoked on this), and had a good time listening to the bands......all in all a great day....

Too bad about the rain keeping the cars off the track, this was a highlight last year...
Tom

 

You are correct Bob and was very unfortunate to run into you but I see evolution is working and you're walking up right now congratulations
See you soon pal
here Are some random pictures taken on Saturday what a beautiful day it turned out to be unfortunately for that kid from Kansas City who worked on his minibike all year and swore he was going to beat me I'm sorry you were disappointed maybe you could try again next year
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hey Hotrodeo...is somebody riding with you? Of course it is illegal to drive and text, but it also seems improbable that you would have the talent to do both at the same time.

 

A couple the ole lady took from her phone, we have more on the digital camera just haven't loaded them into the puter yet.

We trailed behind this sweet ranch wagon and an 50's chevy truck for several miles.

We stopped at The ole "Crapper Barrell" in Rockford on the way home and I proved to the Mrs. that I am a "Genius" by leaving 1 peg in this game, lol.

 

Convoy stop on our way back!

 

Few more from the road.

 

You are correct bob texting while driving is illegal lucky for me I have cruise control when I'm texting !
Sadly all it ever says is
booooob commeee bacckkkkk!

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First time participant had a great time. Thanks go out to all who put in the effort to make it all happenn.

 

Thanks everyone for taking us along to the show thru your photos and reports. Looks like a great show for the money. Even here in NW Florida it rained and was chilly for two days. So you didn't have it bad.

 

hey Hotrodeo, why don't you have the skeleton drive for you? or text for you?

 

Hey Ed, It was great to meet and talk to you, I dig your car and mini bike.

 

Yeah we got drenched on Friday but still had a blast. Saturday was about perfect weather.

The cars were great, the bands were alot of fun, decent swap, awesome tacos but mostly great people! Oh yeah, I'd never seen minibike races that had a band at turn 2.

A big thanks to all who helped put on this great show.

Heres a few photos.

 

Just got home, what a beautiful day for a drive.

See my new post about my lost camera.

BB

 

Wow....i dont know what to say,lmao!

 

Sorry about your camera bob,
Johnny it was cool meeting you too .
I will say John wells and his whole family are the nicest folks and to actually show us his charity is for the people who need it that brought tears to my eyes !
Great people!
Even though we didn't get to race on the track we worked around the mud and had the racing on the back side of the parking lot which was good for me.
And yes that was the first time at a minibike race we had our own band and they rocked!
Thanks john!
I got to defend my title and keep it and there are at least 5 guys who wanted it ,sadly they will have to wait til next year !
Hopefully next year we will have it more organized and I will make a trophy too.
So with 7 hours of driving left and me rambling I'm out
John wells your the man!


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We made it home safe and sound, helped my son unload the mini bikes in his shop. Nice meeting you again hotroded. John put on a great show despite the weather, Thanks John.....

 

Had a great time. I'm just glad Ed didn't show us his feet.

 

a few more pics

 

You to lo buc
Mark has the scary feet tom

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seen enough?

 

last batch for now.