History 1982 Kustom Kemps of America

This year will be Kustom Kemps of America’s Lead Sled Spectacular's 40th year. Like always I'm really looking forward to the show. Since it will be the 40th I hope to see some guys that hadn't been there for a while. It’s really kool to look back.

Alan Cosby posted the following Mercs
















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Wow great shots! There were some great Mercs there. I’ve never seen a Merc with vogue tires on it before!

 

Dad said pack a bag, we`re goin to a car show. I was hoping to see Bob`s Merc. And it was there. The late Bob Johnson`s Sweater than Wine.

 

Bob Johnson`s Sweater than Wine started my p***ion for Candy Brandy wine paint. Wow, was she beautiful.
The scallop lay out is purrfect.

 

Great photos! That photo of Lee Pratt's Buick laying in the weeds is jaw dropping!

 

All you Merc guys look alike.....

 

We do??

 

Loved that Misty Blue when I was a kid , only saw it in Magazines in Australia though !!

 

I can't remember what year, but the " sweeter than wine" Merc lost a skirt on the interstate. Bob said he seen the tractor trailer run over it. Ugh... He did retrieve it though. He showed it to me. It was flat as hell with chunks of paint missing. Some pics show one skirt missing and that's the story.

 

An early pic taken at the Headquarters motel before the pinstriping. Larry Booth`s Black Widow.

 

Lil Miss Vicky. One of the first sectioned cars I saw. Jim Wilkens. See him at the Custom Car Revival. The car is now in Minnesota.

 

Great pics! Thanks for sharing them

 

cool pic's

 

Thanks for those pictures. Nothing better than seeing pictures from the past

 

Here`s Ed Leopold`s before he finished it. Mr Merc.

 

MY 55 CHEVY WAS AT THAT SHOW

 

From 82--

 

The car on the Lincoln Land Kustoms plaque, jackets, etc.

 

I have a plaque. I gave Ed a magazine with a picture of his car in it like the one I posted above. He and his daughter-in-law thank me every year when I see him in Indy at the Custom Car Revival. I have pic`s of this car as well I`ll post later. This was sitting in the hotel parking lot when a car backed into it causing a little crease in the trunk lid. Does anybody remember that. Another W E H T car feature. It is alive and well in Oklahoma, right. Ed.

 

@stanlow69 Yes, it is. I have seen it recently at the OKC NSRA Nationals.

 

Another Detroit area car that I haven’t seen in years


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