The Best Damned Pictures of Amocat Open house 2012

Well My wife and I headed to the Goodguys show late in the day to check out some of the 2700 cars in attendance. I usually take pictures but for some reason, I didn't take one? So we were there for a couple hours and then decided to head to Amocat Open house. We got in the 1936 Ford and as soon as I turned the key, it squeeled like a couple of cats getting mounted by some **** hounds. I shut it down and found the culprit. The lower alternator bolt sheared off and left the alternator flapping which let the belt slip and squeel. I thought that Amocat was a4 blocks away and I could make it there but the belt would most likely be toasted and I would probably overheat so I grabbed a chunk of wire I had thrown in the trunk for emergency electrical repairs and wrapped it around the upper bracket, pulled it tight and wrapped it around the oil dipstick bracket. I fired it up and no squeel. We arrived at Amocat without a problem and Josh (an employee) was helpful to lend me the tools that I din't have. Also True Value was 2 doors down for a new bolt. 5 minutes later and my 1936 was all repaired. Thanks Josh and Steve at Amocat. Anyway, here are the Best Damned pictures of Amocat open house 2012 and a couple bonus videos!!!!

 

Nice pictures. Thanks for posting them.

 

Here's the lucky beauty that got to start the Dragster video.


And heres the video of the Nitro Dragster!!! What an awesome time. I will skip the Goodguys next year and just enjoy Amocat again!!!!

 

I actually met some hamb guys here and one Hamber that I wanted to meet one day was HeyitsNate. He's building a 1936 and I wanted to check out his build as I am buiding one. Also I wanted to see his forming technique as I am also building a 1929 Whippet. Well a guy came up to me and saw my car so one thing led to another and the phone with pictures came out. I said that you will never guess what kind of car this is. He responded a 1929 Whippet. I was blown away. Well he actually looked at my pictures here and recognised the picture on my phone. I was blown away that he could tell a Whippet until he said, I'm "HeyitsNate!!! LOL!!!! It was great talking with you and Noah!!!

 

You are correct, those are "The Best Damned Pictures of Amocat Open house"! Thank You.

 

Thanks again Steve ( Owner of Amocat) for putting on such a cool event!!! I love all the memorabilia you have around the shop. Your shop is killer and so is the whole building!!! Also thank Josh for helping out on the tools for fixing my 1936. This was one of the best events I have been to this year!!!

 

Great pic's!

 

what a birds eye view. That is one hell of a turnout. Love the coverage

 

Thanx for the pix! That's my kind of show, a good mix of stuff, and a lot of it. Gary

 

Looks like all the good cars were at the Amocat open house. Thanks for posting the pics.

 

the pacific northwest showing some good stuff!

 

I'm not sure why the Pacific NW has a ton of killer cars but even show promotors say that we have one of the largest, and best cars around. Maybe because Montana is close and has rust free cars, we have a long downtime from sun so more time to work on them, then when its sunny, we all drive the **** out of them. I'm really not sure but on any given weekend in the summer theres like 50 events!!!!

 

The birds eye veiws are from Amocats deck of the building that is being converted into living space. Very cool digs Steve!!

 

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This pretty girl in front of me asked if it was loud and so we were all giving her the line. I told her the shorter the exhaust , the quieter they are and then I started laughing. She asked me why I was laughing as she believed some of the stuff. It was cute. Anyway, next thing you know, they asked her to fire it off. How cool is that for her.

 

Thanks for the photos. Not to be missed next year.

 

Wow, thanks for sharing such a great batch of photos. We couldn't make it over that way this weekend and it looks like we missed a good one.

It's pretty cool seeing the Space needle T out and running around as it wasn't long ago we saw a thread on it being pulled out of the shed it had collected dust in for way too many years.

 

Gadzooks!! I really like the pics from above. We don't get to see that with our cars very often. Also, that's the first leather wrapped axle I've seen. I wonder if that was the thing to do with the old speedsters?

 

Wow! Those are some nice pictures! Looks like a really fun time. Thanks.

 

Thanks for the great pics! I had a wonderful time,saw alot of friends. And the BBQ was
over the top !!! Alot of cool cars and people. A HUGE THANKYOU to Steve and His better Half. There just arent many people that open there home and feed 200 friends like the Glucofts. Thankyou again. FED

 

One of the years highlights. I loved it as usual! Thanks steve,josh, and all the great folks for showing up....

 

if you can judge a person by their friends
Steve, Corry, Josh you proved you are the best there is

thank you

 

Yeah it was a great turn out of cars and people....Great Shop too! Had to leave early as my wife was done..... LOL Thanks for posting the great shots!

 

Loved this sign......!

 

this was one hell of a good time. can't wait for next year. great pics!

 

Nice shots!

It's nice to see the quality mix of hot rods.

 

Thanks for the photos! AMOCAT rules!
--mika