Hi there everyone. Well the time has finally come for me to leave Corpus Christi, and Head on up to SAN ANTONIO. My wife and son are already here, My daughter and I are finishing school, the House, and Packing all our stuff up. I graduate in May with my ***ociates degree in CNC/Industrial Machining. So I will be looking for a job as well. I will also be looking for a shop space to rent or share the rent with a fellow Rodder or two. I have enough Shop stuff that I can easily fill a 40x40 shop space with. If anyone has any suggestions I am open to them. At this point we live off 1604/281, Thousand oaks/henderson P*** area. We will most likely be moving to an area outside of 1604 and 151 area. As my wifes job is right there for Wachovia. We will also be looking for a house or house,shop, land to rent for a yr or so, until we get settled in here so If anyone has some suggestions for that we are open to area suggestions as well. So now on to my real reason for this posting. I am having some m***ive withdrawls from being around people with the common interest of Traditional Hot Rodding or cl***ic cars period. I have met a couple of guys at the parts stores too, but non that are really into Traditional stuff. They all seem to like muscle cars. I have only found 1 place that actually has a set hang out time and place. If there are some shops in town, I would love to find them out as well as find out about which part stores are Rodder Friendly too.. Thanks in advance for any help. Will
Hows it goin, My names Robert and I am a member of a local car club from around these parts, to get ya started or pointed in the right direction for that matter, I hope I can give ya some helpfull info on your requests. 1. First Fridays. As the weather gets better so do the turnouts at these local cruise nites. Alcapulcos on 609 S. Alamo St. is a local hang out for the locals limited parking but a cool place to meet new people, Pigstand at 1508 brodway St. is also a local first friday cruise nite and its also hosts a local hotrod swapmeet every last sunday of the month. 2. Saturdays are usually sparatic, with some cruise nites here and there, the side of town in which you listed 151 and 1604 has one located at a Big's it is a Texaco slash service station on the corner of Hwy 151 and Portranco Rd. with a local saturday gathering, usally there are lot of local car clubs there with a wide variety of cars and trucks. 3. Every Second Friday are in Castroville, Tx(about 20 min west of san antonio "Called Friday Night Fever" its a local cruise nite held at the local dealership there called Lundquist Chevrolet 4. During the summer months there will be a variety of local carshows as well 2 of the biggest ones happen aroun Augsut and late September for our city. 5. Any of these events listed above usually always have someone leavig flyers to more cruise nites and more carshows and such. here are some of the local shops : Metalwerks Garage 1000 Cincinnatti Sa, Tx 78201 210 5301661 Outlaws Rod and Kustom 316 Blanco Rd. 210 3901077 Bexar bones garage S. presa 210 378 5989 Vintage Air 18865 Goll St. 210 6547171 Alamo Hot rod parts 4310 centergate 210 6567637 Thats all i got for now and welcome to San Antonio, hope this gets ya started, and any fellow locals that read this and are on here please share some more that I left out, or forgot, and lets leave the flaming for the pinstripers please!!! Thanx and good luck-Robert
Look up ChevyRat here on the HAMB... Rebels CC... I promise you will not find a better and fun group of guys to hang with.... Tell him the Big guys from the Torques CC said to BITE ME :~))
Thanks Robert, Ate at the Pig Stand today good grub for sure I am not a health freak haha.. Tony, I will look Chevyrat up too. I am keeping track of all the local stuff I can find, but I thought there would be more goin on here. i am sure as it warms up there will be plenty to do. I need to find a shop space that is secure, but wont kill me to bring all my tools and model A up with me. Its gonna be a hell of a move, I have a wholllllllleeeeeeeeee bunch of stuff lol.. Any Ideas on smaller shop space for a reasonable price around SA?? I'd like be closer to home than an hour away, but beggars can't be choosers at this point. lol thanks again
Pm skulker here on the hamb...garry's a great guy and will surely know what's goin on with hot rods in SA
I'm up in Bulverde, or rather, I work in Austin and my house is up 281. I see many interesting project cars on the local Craigs list for less than crazy prices. There are many frugal minded people in the hobby in SA. Tim
Thanks matt n tim. I was nrxt gonna ask about salvage yards , they don't have to be old iron yards I like new stuff as well, but I would certainly love to beable to walk through them and make friends with the owners. Ild like to find some outta the sa area too. Ya know a nice little ride outta town but not a couple hours drive at first. Still tight on time when I am up here for the weekends, Thanks for all the help. Will
I'm kinda in the same position. I moved here to San Antonio from the northeast less then a year ago and am looking for some weekend wrenchers to hang out with. I work at a dealership on modern cars but have a p***ion for the 40s and 50s. I was looking for a weekend job working on cl***ics but for 2days a week and most shops aren't open on Sundays that is a dream at best
I just made it to Helotes. Currently looking for an honest shop that can help get me running again... chronic health problems holding me back from accomplishing much these days. Any suggestions? TH350 is bleeding... could be as simple as a seal, or... after that, I'd like an ***essment of engine he as lth. 250 sounds a little noisy down low up front. It may be nothing, but wouldn't want to stick a rod through the side. Of course, I'm going nowhere until trans gets resolved. Recommendations for who might be able to help appreciated.
I've tried contacting most of the people on this list... seems they've all disappeared. Anyone else out there??
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