a friend to everybody I think he ever met in the hot rod world passed away on July 1st my friend dave barry RIP. I guess I have known him 16 years from the drags at little river then from monarch transmissions where he took care of a lot of hot rodders over the years up in north austin, including my shop for what ever came up . the gathering in front of his old shop. we started getting artsy cause every one was early to a funeral ? headed out
Sorry to hear about your friend. I used to drive by that shop alot when I lived in Texas. There was always alot of really cool stuff around it. Tim
my car is still mad at me for not finising the race in temple last may so I drove gram`s 48 sedan. at least it`s got a flathead in it the line up at the place ya never want to go too.
You are a true friend ! Such respect is seldom seen much anymore. and the gathering of cars is the right thing to have done. Very good Karma.
then off to the reception every one started to loosin up a little and tell some great stories did not take any pictures of the services just of the cars for the hamb. kinda makes you think ? In the end its all about the friends you make while your here. and from the full house david left with I would say he was a great friend to a lot of good people. and a few old grouches
Casey, you can be proud of the way allyall celebrated his life by your procession rather than mourn his passing. He will now be in some great hotrodder company as he was here.
So sorry That I missed it. Dave was truly a great friend. I will miss him so much.Rest in peace my friend.
When my 13 year old son died, every member of the Lincoln Area Street Rods (NE) attended with their cars. Something to see roadsters out in April with snow on the ground. My wife and I will never forget. I love Hot Rodding and Hot Rodders.
I never had a good experience with a transmission shop until I met Dave. He picked up all my pieces and sent me home under my own power more than once, on a poor boy budget. It just felt like we had been friends a long time. Glad to see such a send off. Peace to him and those that love him.
That grey primered 1930 Ford Model A pickup you see in the pictures belongs to me. Dave and I built that from the ground up in his shop at his home. He saw me in the back yard trying to do it and said "Lets get my trailer and pull this over to my place where we have the tools and equipment to do the job." Three years later I fired it up and drove it home. We were looking forward to the show season this year. I guess the Lord had other plans. Larry
David and I started building T-buckets about the same time almost 30 years ago. He finished his in about a year but it took me another 3 years to get mine on the road. I'm sure mine would have been a 5 year project if It hadn't been for David. It was a small group of us that started the original cruise night in Round Rock. We originally started at the Sonic on North Lamar until we out grew of it and Tom Porter hooked us up at the What-a-burger in Round Rock. I think there were about 12 of us at first and the next year BOOM! hundreds of hot rods! The very first Cars for Kids was done as a fund raiser for Multiple Scorsese in honor of David's two sons that had past away from the disease. I remember Stevie Ray was still with us and donated a boat load of cool stuff to auction off. The event is now much bigger and I don't think very many people know how it really started. It's going to take time for me to get over his loss because he was such a good friend. I saw him last at Reggie's BBQ before the Round up. We talked for hours and he was very insistent that Sara and I come to a party that night in South Austin. We never made it......got busy I guess. I truly regret that.
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