Best car show in the country held by the nicest bunch of guys in Texas. Make no bones about it - the Lonestar Round-Up is a large national show now (3 to 400 cars?), but the Kontinentals know how to handle numbers and everyone still left with a very personal feeling. I can not say enough about these guys or this show... My wife and I got there Friday night and were greeted by perferct weather and old friends. We stayed at the San Jose (RAD RAD RAD) and hung out at the Kontinental Club all night... Heard some great tunes, drank some cold beer, and talked with good pals. Absolutely perfect evening capped off by Kontinental Reggie asking me to drive his flathead powered 32-5w to the show the next morning... And the drive was pretty much how you dream any REAL flathead powered hot rod drive should be. I'm still on cloud nine... More on that later. The show itself is how it should be - more friends, more music, and more beer... BUT the cars were just amazing this year - I'm sure you've already seen pics and I'll let those (along with some artsy ones from me) tell that story. Thank you Kontinentals for the best time I've had in a long time. I owe you all a great deal of gratitude for just being the way you all are and doing what you do. I can't say enough about all of you. I am simply blown away. I mentioned Reggie letting me drive one of his 32's to the show on Saturday. Well, when it came time to give out the HAMB award I was real conflicted. On one side, this car I just drove was my favorite car at the show... On the other, I just drove it in myself and that looks, well.... Anyways, I asked ElJefe for advice and he set me straight. Reggie's 32-5w got the award.
Ryan...glad I finally got to meet you on Saturday! Too bad we didn't get to talk a little more...getting the van unloaded and parked was kind of a fiasco.
Welcome to Tejas! Love those pics, especially that of Crease's Huey helicopter seats with bass boat inserts. They look great. Reggies award was well deserved. Glad to see you were able to have your name on it.
Great pics Ryan.I wish I was a lil closer or my kids were a lil older then I could make it to the show. That gold is amazing......Shiny
Ryan thanks for being part of the show.It was great getting to hang out a little bit w/ you and your wife. And on behalf of the Kontinentals, I would personally like to thank everyone for making the trip and the experience so memorable for all of us. It wouldn't be a show w/o all the cars. There was some jaw dropping stuff again this year as you can see from the many pics. I also want to thank all my fellow Kontinentals for all their efforts and hard work. It does not go by unnoticed. Hopefully, no one got too upset w/ the closeness of cars on Sat at the park. It was just kinda tough to judge where we gonna wind up while trying to get everybody in. More real estate next year for parking at the park. I thought the awards came off perfectly. There was some really tough choices to be made by those who got to pick, but I think in the end it was alot of everyone's favorites that walk away w/ the trophies. Below is a list of the awards and winners. If anyone can match up the pics w/ the awards try and do that. I didn't have a camera much less time to take some shots but I think the pic are around. Here goes: HOP UP Award: '56 Black Merc- Laura Matthews(Austin) CUSTOM RODDER Award: Watson Inspired '53 Chevy-Aaron Labato(N.M.) LEE PRATT Award: Copper '54 Ford Truck-Keith Tucker(Calif) KENNEDY BROS Award: Black '32 Ford 5W-Jim Goodbar(Texas) KEITH WEESNER Award:Red Oxide '32 Ford 3W-Gary Thomas(Texas) GARY HOWARD Award: Tan '50 Ford Coupe-Darryl Dudley(Texas) PETE & JAKE Award: Cream '36 Ford Roadster-Wayne Davis(Texas) VON FRANCO Award: Purple '32 Ford Roadster(Kennedy Bros Built)-Jim Jard (Houston) NORM GRABOWSKI Award: Black '36 Ford 3W- Billy F Gibbons HAMB Award: Brown '32 Ford 5W - Reggie Hill(fellow Kontinental from just outsude of Austin) KONTINENTALS' Award: '32 Bluegreen Ford Roadster-Bob Bleed(whereabouts unknown) We want to thank all the guys above for helping us w/ the awards and Bigun for fabbing the awesome trophies. Did anyone get a pic of the trophies? My favorite part of the weekend....w/o a doubt the scene on S. Congress Fri and Sat night and the sound of open headers roaring up and down that street all thoughout both evenings. It was like a dream come true for me that I awoke from today cuz tonight(Sun) its all back to abnormal. Was it a dream? My mind says yes.....my feet say no. Mucho Gracias to everyone that came in and was a part of LSRU'04.
Wow, what a freakin' cool weekend! It was good to finally meet you Ryan, and all the other HAMB folks I met this weekend. Especially my new friends Bobbleed and Max Wedge. You guys are welcome at my place anytime. Here's a shot from one of the highlights of my weekend- cruisin' shotgun in Bob's roadster.
Bad part its 362 days to next Roundup. Good part it is ONLY 362 more days to Roundup. Thanks Kontinentals for an awsome good time. Too bad South Congress Ave can't be like this every Friday & Saturday night!
Great to see you and the missus again Ryan - and everyone else who came to the show - we are blown away with the amount of folks and cars who decided to come visit us here and enjoy a great weekend. Thanks to all of ya'll for inspiring us - and a big thanks to El Jefe, Willie B for helping make this thing possible and all my brother Kontinentals for being great hosts and friends. I'm just now going thru some of the posts here and seeing some great shots and stories - too cool. It is a weird thing to get used to seeing all the hop ups and kustoms all up and down Congress all weekend - I got used to it too - and now I have to take off this morning for work - driving down Congress isn't quite the same - but I walk out to my caddy and see the fresh stripes by Franco on the decklid (laid out while I had to run and get registration started) and I know it wasn't just a dream more pictures to follow - official Kontinentals photographer George Brainard was shooting all weekend - said he took 1,134 photos and we'll get those up soon - in the meantime - post more Ryan! those look great!
One more post to add the comment to, sure wish I woulda been there. Ryan's photos ROCK! There's something about black and white that really gives me a woodie, the girlie version.
Man guys I promise not to miss the next one....we had family in ICU so we had to pass. We will be cruising the Fleetline next year hopefully. Is this park gonna be big enough to hold all the cars next year?
Wow...what a show, and what awesome people. I was running on empty for Friday night since I'd stayed up until 3:30 AM every night last week trying to get my Triumph project finished (which still didn't quite happen, but I brought it anyway...more on that later)....but I wouldn't have traded the last few days for anything. It was great to see my Texas extended hot rod family again, as well as meet a bunch of rad new people...Jimmy White (ruler!), Aaron from Albuquerque, Reggie of the Kontinentals, Dean from Dice Magazine, the HAMB's own Ryan, and the list goes on... The shoebox gave me some shit on Sunday morning (shifter is worn out...I wonder why ), but I think maybe my car just didn't want to leave Austin. I managed to get 3rd, 4th and Reverse to somewhat work and got it home though. Thanks to Honest Charley, Flt-Blk, Deyomatic, Old Car Pilot, Buzzard, Big Ric, Kevin and Kenny for helping me get it sorted out enough to get it home. And thanks to Outlaw for the hospitality. The Triumph got a pretty good reaction, which made all the hard work and lack of sleep worthwhile. Thanks to the Kontinentals for allowing me to bring one of only a handful of bikes into the show....and for putting on what has become what I believe is the best show in the nation. You know I'll be back next year.
What a great time! Thank you Ryan for the HAMB. The Roundup would have never happened the way it did, three years ago. And now it's snowballing into a big deal. Friday and Saturday nights of the Roundup and the Drags on South Congress are just about genius to me. It's like being in our own hot rod movie. Kick ass bands playing in the club, bitchin' cars parked up and down the street, cruisin', burnouts, and me drinkin' beer out by the dumpster with the hoodlums. It's stinks that we can't do it every weekend!!! I'm sitting at work having withdrawls. Thanks so much to all of ya'll that made it down. We rent the park, but ya'll make it a show. I can't believe how many people drove from so far away. Just to come to our little corner of the hot rod world.
Im happy you guys made it home safe. Hope you got your fill of mexican food, beer, hot rods, customs and mudersikles. Great talkin to you and Marci(sp?) Reality sucks...I wana live my life in a closed loop Roundup weekend...no editing required! Another great show guys!
I've gotta get my thank yous in here. First to Ele Jefe, Beatnik, and Will. Y'all do incredible things. All the Kontinental brethren, Hard work is pure fun with you guys! Ryan, without the HAMB none of this is possible. Thanks. It was great to have you back in Austin. Flat-top, Thanks for brining Norm. I wish you and I had more time to talk and hang out. Mcphail, and Von Franco. Them-the Barrons-the Outkasts-the Chupacabras-the Roadrockets: All the car clubs from all over. Thanks for Y'alls undying support. Thanks to all the HAMBers. It is our pleasure to have every one come play in our back yard.
You've got some Hamb Calendar '05 shots there Ryan. excellent work. As for that interior with the helicopter seats. Man, I'd like to get some of those. As long as I don't have to be door gunner again...
let me get into the thank yous also....everyone i met this weekend on the hamb....my fellow amigos Road Rockets and associates ...a real deal for putting up with all the T's quirks ....Big Brian Bass and Ma'& Pa' Bass for the spindles and drive way....the Konts for the show...and Merc Charlie for the hubs.all those that gave me cards or info on a new motor or parts for a motor.and the two guys in the f100s that found us about 2 miles away from the show and that pulled my busted motor ass into the show anyway. TEXAS CANT BE BEAT!
Thats It, I cant wait any longer. I am moving back to Texas. It may be a couple of years, but the wife and I will be outa here, as soon as the kids are a little older. I love it down there. It looks like you guys have a real good thing down there, congrats Kontinentals for now having one of if not the best car show around. I will be down next year for sure..
If I had to pick my favorite car of the weekend, it would have to be the red oxide Deuce 3W that won the Keith Weesner award. That thing won me over hands down...everywhere you looked it had some neat little detail that set it apart. That's it in the first photo at the top...did anyone get a another good pic of it?
Grimlock cant we still be friends... I HATE YOU TOO haha-- heres the gay reason I couldnt go--- taped and kandied myself to this truck- Glad bob&Max still made it.
what? I don't know what your talking about... dude that show ruled and I knew it all weekend... It made working suck that much more. Like a sour feeling in your stomach. Oh well. If I werent still in college this last semester It wouldve worked. I had 18 hours in trimming flames-- when I coulda been kicking back spending the 18hrs on my way to TEXAS- Watching bob bleed put curlers in his hair and Max and I couldve been watching Monsters reruns on the dvd player. next year ill bring my roadster- and we'll run over the guy that wouldnt let Dan Picasso in with his galaxie. that would rule... haha If I bring my galaxie ill tell the guys at the gate its a '63... , and its a MERCURY the pix rule- L*8*R Tuck
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