Megans dream come true - Winfield Seminar Photos

Introducing our Host for the weekend, Miss Megan



Oops forgot the name tags so we had to make some high tech tags, Red Green would be proud



This could be where the tags were, LOL Megans Desk, busy girl



picture of the class


a quick walk around the warehouse found me happy, lots of Lincolns

 

Crusty and Steve (Rat_Rodder) doing some prep work on a door



Jonathan (Junkyardjunkie) Joe (hoboy56) and Steve (Rat_Rodder) soaking up info!!



Gene drawing out pics


Gene making a handmade window channel



Crusty and Matt (Whisky Runner) showing window channel with glass



Gene demostrating how to take dents out with Bullseye pic with Rob (Mr KustomLincolnLady) Megan and Dustin (Mercduecemans son)

 

Cool pics, wish I could have been there...

 

Gene explaning how to gas weld holes in door



demonstrating tinning in prep for lead



Gene explaning leading to Megan



Jim (38Mag) and Gene Leading


Tucker (49fastback) leading



Rob (Mr KustomLincolnLady ) and Gene welding Aluminum

 

Gene fielding some questions




Gene with his hammer made from a bat



Dave (whatfenders) and Tucker (49fastback)



Megan taking out dents, she will explain to you why shes going to be in trouble in this photo



hard to get Gene to stop so we could have lunch!!!



Gene explained how to remove dents in a roof of a car without tearing out the headliner. so crusty decided to put him to the test with a car that just happened to be dented in the roof




But Megan decided to have some fun, we emailed this pic to her boss on his phone. He was on his way back from Florida (I think)

 

Sat Megan planned a dinner at Hog Heaven with anyone from the group who wanted to attend. It was a great time (sorry no photos there) took a break,

After that Megan took us all to the Motorcar Portfolio office. everyone spent about a 1/2 or so looking at all the cars. Steve found one he fell in love with, a 1952 Glasspar



only prob was it took him a while to get in and out of it



Well, here comes the best part of the whole weekend (in my opinion) some left but those that stayed sat down in the lobby area and we started looking at the book Gene always has with him with his photos (Rikster would have died)!!!! Gene STOOD there for nearly 5 hrs telling us story after story and the history of all of his cars!!! WOW

 

oops forgot the HAMB group photo

I'll post two because one person got hidden in each one.
here you have Joe (hoboy56) Dustin (mercdueceman's son) Dave (whatfenders) Megan (chevygirlrox) Jim (38Mag) Tucker (49fastback) Gene Winfield Debb (KustomLincolnLady) Steve (rat_rodder) Tony (sorry tony I didn't get your hamb name) and Jonathan (junkyardjunkie)



this photo shows Joe, Dustin, Jerry (leadsled01) Dave,Megan,Tucker, Gene, Debb, Steve, Tony, Jonathan



Steve had to leave sunday morning for a long drive back to NJ




on sunday Megan had a little visitor (her nephew) Selden he was giving his approval of the leaded door with Matt (whisky Runner)



he didn't like getting dirt on his hand so he dusted it off on Matt



Then with the help of Megan he wanted to show me

 

ok enough playing around, back to work

Gene made some mouldings from pieces of metal. Really COOL!!!







Dustin, John (MercDueceMan) and Gene


Gene showing demo with Beverly shearer



Jim, Joe, gene and dustin (Gene giving Ideas to joe for his caddy)



Matt, Me and Crusty

 

a little mig welding



Matt working with the plasma cutter



some more of the mouldings and window channel





the HAMB - Winfield grads!! Good job guys and gal

Matt and Crusty



Tucker


Rob



Joe

 

Jonathan


Dustin


Jim


Dave


Steve (with his poster he won)


Megan


Jerry

 

I haven't got all the photos loaded yet to photobucket, give me a few days and I will post a link so you can see the rest.

so in summary it was a fantastic weekend, Megan was very happy with her "party"



I think that everyone learned their 40% and MORE, which Gene says at the beginning they will get out of it



Megan is a parrot head in case you didn't know


and in case anyone forgets anything here is your man!!! Tucker


oh yes, and Megan fed us good on sunday too


the end to a wonderful weekend, if you ever have the chance it's well worth it!!!! I think Gene would have gone till 9pm!! we were up till 2am on sat some till 3am! He just goes and goes

 

I hope I didn't forget anyone, but in case I did or got your name wrong or something let me know and I can edit. sorry if I messed up

Megan, thanks again for all the work you put into this, and thanks to your boss and crew!!! Matt and Crusty.
we had a great time, Im glad I was able to stay and document it for everyone there. Everyone was so busy they wouldn't have gotten photos.

 

thanks for reminding me i need to do this class.

 

I wish I had a quarter of the energy and talent that man has.

 

Wow i think this will go down as the best H.A.M.B. thread of the year! Thanks for all those great pics Deb. What a great way to learn from the best who has lived and done it all. It looks like Rob really enjoyed his b day present you got him.

 

thanks for sharing Debb, looks like a great experience.

 

Awsome post Deb, looks like it was a very informative seminar.

Congrats to you too Megan, you are a real class act.

 

thanks for posting...sure wish i could have gone
i met gene at hershey and talked for quite a while...great guy!

megan...nice office decoration

 

Another nomination for thread of the year! Care to share how this all got put together? Please!

 

What a great thread! Thanks for taking the time to take and post the pics but also for putting names to faces. Looks like a very informative class. Excellent job and thank you. Mike

 

Wow great layout, looks like you guys and gals had a blast, very cool.

 

Thanks for all the pics KLL. You rock! Jerry

 

Looks like a great time!

Thanks for sharing the photos.

 

No doubt. Wow, very cool.

 

Theres the pictures i was looking for!!!! Great Job Debb!!!

Once again, i had a blast. Thanks to everyone. It was well worth the long haul.

Yea it was the best when he took out the photos and gave them to me... Its a shame i had to call it quits and head to bed,But it was over 12:00 at night!

One day i hope to be as healthy metally and pysically as gene at his age. Such a great guy! I will remember this weekend for a lifetime.

Thanks again to everyone
steve

 

Deb--you really didn't take any from my best side, did you? (That's the back of my head, according to my mom!)

I had a really great time also. I ended up with about 20 pages of notes when I rewrote them more legibly!

The food was good too--who made that chocolate cake? I was lucky enough to get the last piece!

Thanks for the pics, Deb. My camera died early Saturday but when I saw you strobin' away, I knew I wouldn't need to worry...

Tucker

 

If you don't mind me asking, what does something like this cost to put on?

 

Gene got my wheels turning, now I have too make some new tools and fixtures. Thanks Megan and Mortorcars for putting this on.

 

Thanks a TON for posting the pics KLL. I have been busy like Petejoe said getting ready to take 175 guys to Detroit on Saturday.

The workshop was a very very good. I have been wanting to go out to Mojave to his shop to go thru it but seemed to always have a conflict on the date. So last fall when he did the one day show in Texas I got hooked up with that guy and he talked to Gene about doing it and he said yes. And after months of planning and borrowing tools, the weekend finally came.

I picked Gene up in Cleveland at the airport around 530 on Friday night. He came off the plane with two small bags. When I asked him if that was all of his luggage he said "oh no". He ended up having 5 bags! 5 really really heavy bags! He had packed tools for the workshop and also stuff to sell at the Autorama hence the reason for all the luggage. After finally finding my truck (and feeling relieved that it wasn't towed after being in a 30 minute spot for over an hour) we headed for Canton. Summit Racing is in Akron, Ohio which was on our way home so we stopped there so he could check it out. Turns out there is a car he is building right now that the owner has been buying lots of parts from there so he wanted to see what it was about. For those of you that haven't been to Summit within the past couple years, it is now a HUGE facility with a HUGE showroom with lots of parts on display. Gene and I looked around for awhile at some parts he is looking at for his new '32 roadster for Bonneville this year. After looking at a few books that had his cars in them and hearing some stories we headed to our warehouse where the workshop would be. He looked everything over and decided to add a few more things to round up for the weekend. Matt (Whiskeyrunner here on the HAMB) is the head mechanic for Motorcar Portfolio so he met us there to make sure everything was a-ok. We then headed down the road to get some grub since Gene had been on the road for over 10 hours at this point. Who ever said he is a milk drinker was right. Milk, milk and more milk. He likes chicken but never puts any type of spread on anything. From what I hear of Californians, he is a typical Californian eater. So I brought him down to the hotel to check in and we ran into KustomLincolnLady and her husband Rob, Hoboy56 (joe) and 49Fastback (Tucker) so we headed where else but the bar! This was the beginning of late night #1. We stayed up and talked until about 130am. I had to drive back to my house (a half hour) and got to bed around 230. Up at 630 to get Gene to the warehouse early to finish setting up. Rounded up everyone at the hotel and headed up there. KLL's and her husband (Rob) knew Gene from before so Rob was a huge help to Gene and Matt helping get things ready. Crusty is another guy who works in the Motorcar Portfolio shop (he is an Olds man). Crusty and Matt were a huge help to me on the shop end of things. Afterall it was there shop we invaded for the weekend. Gene got right to business at nine and would hardly stop for lunch. I finally cut him off at 630 since we had 7pm reservations. There were a few people who had only planned to stay one day but most ended up coming back on Sunday because they had learned so much Saturday. Like KLL said, we had a good BBQ dinner then headed down to my showroom to check out our cars for sale. Somehow Gene's scrapbook got out and then we launched into probably one of the best times of my life. It was one of those times that you could never read in a book or get from a movie. It was Gene himself telling the story of the kustoms, the movie cars and the people that make the business what it is. Most stayed up until 130 but a few stuck it out til 230. Late night #2, home to bed by 330 up at 7.

Time out...more later....

 

I would be all over this if he comes anywhere close to DFW. *cross fingers*

Thanks for the pictures!