Event Coverage STARLINER September 8 & 9, 2017

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To register for the event, go to our website. www.straykatkustoms.com
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What is going on Friday......

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Registration will be open from 10:00 am to around 1:00 pm on Friday at the host hotel. All day Friday, the show is a moving show. We go on a Garage Krawl to visit shops all over the Wichita area. We will provide maps at the host hotel. During the cruise we will tour some professional shops and tour private collections.

What is going on Saturday.....​

The Kansas Aviation Museum is the purrfect place to host the show. Aviation is a big part of Wichita and it is a kool back drop for the show. The building was built in the early ‘40s and is a kool art deco structure.



Please go to their web site below to check out the museum.
www.kansasaviationmuseum.org



Saturday the show will be at the Kansas Aviation Museum. What a kool location for the show. Like all Stray Kat events, we have entertainment for the entire family.

EVENT SCHEDULE​

Saturday the show will be at the Kansas Aviation Museum in Wichita. The past Eight years the show has been a good fund raiser for the museum. We will open the gates at 8:00 am and you will be able to park around the airplanes. It sure makes for a kool photo op. We have artist from all over the mid-west attend the show.

Why Wichita?​

1981 was the first year that I really started doing the car show thing. My third show was
the Kustom Kemps of America’s Lead Sled Spectacular in Wichita. We drove up early
Saturday morning and we were planning on spending the night at the host hotel but
because I was only 18, they would not let me check in to my room. Not knowing anyone
there, we just hung out in the parking lot at the hotel. We stayed as long as we could and
then drove the three hours back home. Even though it was only for one day we had a
blast! I had only seen one chopped Mercury before and it was at an indoor car show at
the Starbird show in Tulsa. This was the first time I got to see a Mercury and kustoms in
motion. They are kool sitting still but when you get to experience them driving around town,
whoa, look out. Watching a Kustom a cruising is a whole different experience.

That weekend I was introduced to the important role that Wichita played in the Kustom
and Hot Rod history. Can you imagine how kool it would have been to see Dave Stucky
cruising Douglas in the Little Koffin. I love to hear the stories of those days.



My late 50’s experience didn’t really start until the early 80s. Kustoms like Hub Harness ’59 El Camino, Doug Reeds ’50 Olds “aka Toad” and Johnny Hammond’s timeless ’58 Chevy Impala. I know that I’m leaving some of the kustoms that started it for me out but what a list. These guys introduced me to kustoms and that kool Wichita Style. The Kool thing is they are still cruising the streets today.

Doug Reed's "Toad"


Johnny Hammond's 58 Impala



Hub Harness 59 El Camino.



If you look at the mild kustoms above they're all about the profile.

Wouldn’t it have been kool to live in Wichita when, Starbird, Cushenberrry, Stucky, Farner,
Eldon ***us and Carl Green were building some wild kustoms and cruising the streets. Since
that day Wichita has not slowed down. Guys are still building them today and still doing their
part keeping the Kustom and Hot Rods alive in Wichita. I’ve been blessed over the years to
build relationships with a lot of koool people in the area and felt like Wichita should host a
Kustom and Hot Rod event. Like every other town in the USA they’re too many car shows
but I feel like they’re not enough kool ones. Wichita has a kool show in the Delano district
but other then that one, not another show for the Kustom and Hot Rod enthusiasts.

The guys that I mentioned above influenced my foundation on what is kool and I’m very
thankful that I was exposed to this legendary Wichita style. Today we have guys in the
area (Jeff Meyers to name one) that are building Kustoms and Hot Rods that are influencing
the younger crowd. I want to spot light some of the legendary builders and show them
what they started years ago is still alive today and make sure that Kool will never go out
of style.

If you have any questions just let me know. If I don't know the answer, I'll ask Jack...

Happy Trails,

Mick

 

Oughta be a blast!

 

Kool pics from the first Starliner.

 

Thanks For posting the pics... I like parking in the gr***...

 

Hopefully ill have all the bugs worked out of the 58 to drive it

 

Here's a little video from the '09 show. Miss the 'Jets.

 

I see registration is at the host hotel Friday 10 to 1.
Will there be Saturday registration at the museum as well?

 

We will move registration to the Kansas Aviation Museum Saturday morning. (7am to 2pm)

 

Looking forward to seeing the StrayKat crew again, had a blast at the 500 last May!!

 

This is a great show! It was fun last year to take the roadster out for the first time last year. Now to see it on the adverti*****ts is pretty darn COOL! See you there.

 

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Always an awesome time!!

 

its a great show

 

Usually have a great time at the hotel on Friday night when the Lonely Knights CC brings their food trailer and cooks fajitas for everyone.

 

Sorry I forgot who took what pics... Here are some of my favorite ones from past years.
We like to eat.

 

B-Scott Studios did this years art work for the event shirt.

 

Some of the pictures look like the Wichita inn and suites is that the host hotel?

 

Quality Inn south 4849 S Laura St, Wichita, KS Telelphone number is (316)522-1800