All Entries in the "On Tour" Category

Ford Talladega Family Reunion at the Forge Muscle Car Show

Once in a lifetime opportunity if you love Fords or just enjoy rare cars!
Several of us are working with Tim Lapata and his Forge Muscle Car Show to put on a very special “Family Reunion” for the Ford Talladega at this fall’s Forge Muscle Car Show. There will be an indoor show with a portion [...]

Stones River Battlefield

We live in the City of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, home of the Stones River Civil War Battlefield. As we begin this new year and new decade take one brief minute to remember the trials and tribulations that make it possible for us to live the lives we do. We, as citizens of this great Country, may [...]

Boskovich Collection; Boss 429 Mustangs and much more

I recently had an invitation to tour a portion of the Boskovich Car Collection. If was like no other experience. It is likely that most of you have heard of Pop’s Toy that terrorized Van Nuys Boulevard back in the late 60s and early 70s. If not, CLICK HERE for the story.

Pops was a hard [...]

How to Meet New Friends and Get a Free Meal at Sonic

By: Richard Fleener

While we were at the Aero Car Reunion in Alexander City we saw a lot of old friends and met lots of new ones. One such meeting was way more entertaining than the others.
Katrina and I went to the Sonic next to Tim Wellborn’s Muscle Car Museum for lunch one day. Because all [...]

Barn Find page updated

We have had a very productive November from a Barn Find perspective. Not only did we find a bunch of different cars out in the woods but we even found a high quality Barn Find in a Barn that we purchased and hope to have on the road by spring.

If you like to look at [...]

Aero Cars on Track at Talladega

By: Richard Fleener

This is the last post on the 40th Reunion of the Aero Warriors at the Talladega Super Speedway. The Dodge Daytons, Plymouth Superbirds, Ford Talladegas, Charger 500s and Mercury Cyclone Spoiler IIs all got their chance to recreate that magical time back in 1969 when Stock Cars were Stock Cars and race drives [...]

Tim and Pam Wellborn’s Russwood Estate Aero Car Show!

By: Richard Fleener
When Tim and Pam Wellborn invite car folks over for a visit they know how to do it right! During the 2009 Aero Car Reunion these Mopar collectors made even us humble Ford collectors feel special. The Wellborn Estate, known as Russwood, is a treasure in its own right but when you add [...]

Sonic Drive-in Muscle Car Heaven

By: Richard Fleener

Can you imagine pulling into your local Sonic drive-in and finding a row of 1969/70 aero muscle cars sitting there? How about two 1969 Dodge Daytons, a 1969 Dodge 500, a 1969 Ford Talladega and a 1970 Plymouth Superbird all in a row plus multiple more Daytonas, Superbirds, and Mercury Cyclone Spoiler IIs [...]

Dodge Daytona and Plymouth Superbird Club at Talladega 40th Reunion

By: Richard Fleener

Katrina and I just returned from four fabulous days of playing with our Ford Talladega and a bunch of terrific Mopar and Blue Oval folks at Talladega! We have a long list of stories to tell and nearly a 1,000 photos plus videos to sort through.
We will be posting stories, Feature Cars and [...]

Talladega Super Speedway Aero Car Reunion

By: Richard Fleener

We are off to the 40th Reunion of the NASCAR Aero cars this weekend at the Talladega Super Speedway. This reunion is only held once every five years at the Speedway. It is a great group of people who all love the Aero cars. Most don’t care if you own a Blue Oval [...]

Rat Rod Photos

By: Richard Fleener
Rat Rods continue to grow in popularity. They range from old beater 50’s machines in a combination of primer and rust to miscellaneous parts scavenged from a junk yard to make a vehicle for cheap. Others are highly engineered and mechanically advanced with suade paint jobs. Still others are pure rust buckets that [...]

Middle Tennessee State University Homecoming Parade 2009

By: Richard Fleener
Katrina and I like doing things in our local community so today we braved the cold weather and a lot of well lubricated college students to drive the MTSU Homecoming Queen and the MTSU Blue Raiders Queen in the Homecoming Parade in our 1965 Thunderbird.
It is always fun to support such events and [...]

Hot Rod Tour to SEMA with Rolling Bones

We just received the following information from Motorbooks and thought you might be interested.
Rolling Bones, one of the nations best-known hot rod shops, is teaming up with Motorbooks and rodders across the country on an adventure to SEMA! Ken Schmidt and Keith Cornell (aka Rolling Bones) will drive their 1932 Ford Three Window Coupe from [...]

Gloriana Video Behind the Scenes; See our Mustang Fastback!

By: Richard Fleener
It’s almost here! The new Gloriana single “How Far Do You Want To Go” Music Video will be released on Monday October 19, 2009 but we have a behind the scenes peek for you. We had a blast providing our 1967 Fastback for this shoot and we are very impressed with this new [...]

Vintage Racing Darlington Historical Racing Festival

If you are tired of the same old NASCAR boring all look alike cars it is time for you to go to a Vintage Racing event. If you are new to NASCAR or IRL or any other form of motor sport you need to take in a vintage racing event. Doesn’t matter if it is [...]

Muscle Car Museum Tour; Floyd Garrett’s in Sevierville Tennessee

After going through the Floyd Garrett Muscle Car Museum in Sevierville, Tennessee I am all charged up to get back working on a project car. There are at least 90 excellent examples in the museum of why we all love muscle cars.
Floyd Garrett is a well known and respected muscle car expert with a fondness [...]

Gloriana Mustang Fastback Photo Shoot

Here is the latest photo of the band Gloriana at the studio photo shoot for their next music video. Watch for it around the first of October. We are so excited that our 67 Mustang Fastback will be part of this.

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Update

We have not posted for a week or so because of a long over do vacation. However, in the next couple of weeks you will be seeing such things as lots of photos from the Floyd Garrett Muscle Car Museum, Racers Reunion in Darlington, a Feature on a great 1967 Mustang Fastback, and a review [...]

Music Video; Part 2: Gloriana

Gloriana is the Country Music group that asked to use our Project Mustang and we could not be more thrilled. It was an exciting experience and they are a great sounding group. I can hardly wait for the video to be completed.

Here are some more photos of the shoot but you can see even more [...]

Nethercutt Collection and San Sylmar

The late J. B. and Dorothy Nethercutt assembled a World-class collection of cars, mechanical musical instruments and rare collectibles. Thanks to their foresight and generosity their collections are available to all of us to see for absolutely no cost. The Merle Norman fortune allowed for the Collection to be funded forever. It will grow and [...]

Alan Jackson’s Private Car Collection, Take a Tour

Have you ever wished you could visit some of the private collections of the rich and famous? I know it is a dream for many of us to see Jay Leno’s fabulous collection of cars but there are many more collections that are also worth seeing. Often these are tucked away in far distant locations [...]

Ford Car Show; Fabulous Fords Forever

If you like Fords you have to go to a Fabulous Fords Forever car show. You will find some of the best Blue Oval cars anywhere and some of the best car folks you will ever meet. We just got back from a hot day on the asphalt on Saturday but had a “Fabulous” time. [...]

Dirt Track Racing at its best.

Check out the hay field behind the track. This facility is inside the City limits of Oskaloosa. Three cheers for the citizens of “Osky” for letting this continue and no complaints about the noise or the dirt.
f you want to get up close to racing and have some fun check out your nearest dirt [...]

NASCAR Drivers’ Meeting Camping World Trucks

We have been watching Rod Hornaday race for a very long time, ever since he drove in the Winston West Series on the west coast. He has always been a hard charger and it was great to see him win a Sam Bass Guitar at Nashville.

In yesterday’s post we gave you a recording of the [...]

Sam Bass Guitar; Nashville Speedway

I am sure you have heard all about what punk Kyle Busch did to the beautiful Sam Bass Guitar trophy immediately after the Nationwide race at Nashville. If you haven’t, he smashed it on stage to the horror of most people present.

This past weekend the Camping World Trucks were in Nashville for their annual [...]

Good Guys Video, Des Moines, Iowa Heartland Show

It has been a few weeks since we went to the Des Moines Good Guys Show but we finally got a video complete of some of the cars we saw. Check this out and also visit the photo pages.

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World of Outlaws Race Car

If you have never had the opportunity to take in a World of Outlaws race or have never been to a dirt track in the mid-west here is a video for you. It is an exhibition run of a World of Outlaws race car at the famed half mile dirt track at the Southern Iowa [...]

Update on Murfreesboro Hot Rod Club Cruise

This event goes on every Friday night right outside the Belks Department Store in the Avenues Shopping Mall just off I-24 in Murfreesboro, TN. Cars are terrific but the people are even better. We have anywhere from a couple of hundred cars to over 700 on really good nights.

The members of the Murfreesboro Hot Rod [...]

Good Guys Des Moines 2009

We just returned from the Good Guys Show in Des Moines Iowa and it was one of the best shows we have been to. We were at Nashville Good Guys last weekend and it was so hot we had to leave. Des Moines was cool with some rain on the 4th but the weather was [...]

Good Guys Video of Autocross at Nashville

When you go to a car show all you usually see are cars lined up and looking good. It is fun and you get to see some wonderful cars up close. In recent years many of the larger events have added cruises down the streets some even with open exhaust. Some shows have added burn [...]

Nashville Good Guys 2009 was Hot!

One thing about Nashville when Good Guys comes to town they know how to give everyone a warm reception! It was hot at LP Field. The smell or radiator coolant waffled through the air. I saw a lot of cars that were from out of the area and many from Alabama. Almost every time I [...]

1969 427 ZL1 COPO Camaro Video

Here is one of those cars you just love to hear run but never ever get to. Now you can anytime you want to, just come back here and listen.
What is it?
This is a 1969 427 ZL-1 COPO Camaro from the Ciff Ernst Collection. You can see the complete collection on our Museum Page. This [...]

NASCAR Drivers’ Meeting

Have you ever wanted to attend a NASCAR drivers’ meeting before the big race? Well now is your chance. I am afraid I can’t send you to a drivers’ meeting but I can do the next best thing. I video recorded an entire drivers’ meeting and it is on our site for you to see [...]

Chevy Chevelle-abration Video has been added!

The video from the Chevy Chevelle-abration has been added, Click Here for all the Sights and Sounds of the show. You can also see it below but you will miss all of the photos we took!
VIDEO OF CHEVELLE-ABRATION

Technorati Tags: car video, chevelle, Chevelle-abration, Chevy, muscle car

Chevelle-abration

If you love Chevelles then you need to put this one on your list. It is  The American Chevelle Enthusiasts Society Chevelle-abration held every year just outside of Nashville, TN. We were only able to attend for one day but there were a lot of beautiful Chevelles of every year present. If you like original [...]

Super Chevy Winner

Here are some photos of our recent Class win at the Super Chevy Show in Memphis, TN. Look closely at the photos and you can see the storm clouds approaching. It was a rainy weekend but a great time for all. Well, maybe not all, the drag racers didn’t get to see much track time. [...]

New Cruise-In Photos from Murfreesboro

The weather was good last Friday and we finally had a real cruise at the Murfreesboro Hot Rod Club cruise in Murfreesboro. Check our our photos at the Car Show page, Click Here.

We have also added a new little feature to keep you on your toes. Going to a cruise is all about the cars; [...]

Dodge Daytona, Plymouth Superbird, Ford Talladega, Mercrury Spoiler II Back at Talladega!

The 1969 and 1970 aero cars from Dodge, Plymouth, Ford and Mercury are returning to Talladega!
You will not want to miss this.

On November 1, 2009 the Talladega Superspeedway will welcome arguably, the most talked about stock cars in NASCAR history. The Daytona Superbird Auto Club will be hosting its 40th Reunion at the world famous [...]

Super Chevy Show, Drag Races 2009

The rain really put the drag racers in their trailers. It seemed as soon as the track was dry it was a signal for the rain to start. In fact on Sunday when a few racers did get on the track the mops came out to dry the track from a weeping crack at the [...]

Memphis Super Chevy Show 2009

We just spent a wet weekend at the Super Chevy Show in Memphis. We had a successful trip with no problems and brought home a Class Win as well as a Sunday’s Best of Class award. In the very near future we will be posting a few clips of the very little racing that [...]

Let’s Go Racing!

This is toooooo coooool. Check out the nose of Jamie Land’s Modified race car! You will remember Jamie as the guy who sold the Radical Rat Rod to Paul Tracy. Jamie is also into fast race cars and dirt tracks (my kind of guy). He just finished his new car and is ready to race.
To [...]

Super Chevy Show; Memphis Watch for Us

The show season is now officially on for those of us located in the SE. On April 17th the 2009 Super Chevy Show will be in Memphis, TN. God willing and the creek don’t rise we will be there.

Watch for Katrina and me in our 1959 El Camino. It has been a long cold [...]

Riverside International Raceway Museum

In the mid 80s when I moved to Southern California the first thing I did was get season tickets to Riverside. It was a shrine for me. I grew up seeing it in movies and reading about it in magazines and watching races on TV. Within a few years I had my perfect season tickets [...]

Super Chevy and Hunter’s Car Shows; On Tour

Some of you might like to know how you can get your car posted to our site or even where you might be able to see one of our cars. We will be starting to tour again in April.
We will be at the Hunter’s Car Show in Nashville and the Super Chevy Show in Memphis. [...]

Packard Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

The Fort Lauderdale Antique Car Museum is about only one kind of car, the Packard. It has the biggest collection of Packards and Packard memorabilia in the World according to staff at the museum.
When we walked in we were impressed but once we started walking around and discovered there were multiple rooms of cars we [...]

IRL Testing at Homestead

In late February we visited the IRL testing at Homestead Florida. It was our first visit to this facility and it certainly will not be our last. We had never given the track much thought because it is so far from almost everyone but it is a terrific facility. You can see the entire track [...]

Moving Cars from Los Angeles to Tennessee or moving from LA to Hee Haw!

The story of two married California urbanites that think Tennessee is the place you odda be!
Since we just revised the web site and some of you are new to what we are doing I thought you might like a little history on how we got here. The following is a brief, light hearted update.

Once upon [...]

Trophy Girls make you smile! NHRA Museum

Trophy girls make you smile. In the 50s and 60s is was all about fast cars and beautiful women. (Or was it beautiful cars and fast women?) The photo above is the most famous of them all; Linda Vaughan. She was Hurst Golden Girl/Miss Hurst. She is still around today and has held up well.
If [...]

Monster MOPAR Weekend XXIV Gateway International Raceway St Louis

Katrina and I just returned from one of the most enjoyable car shows we have ever been to. Imagine this, you are at a show and there are 730 cars there; and all but 9 are Mopars. You are one of the 9 Fords at the show, how would you expect to be treated?

Well, if [...]

So-Cal Speed Shop a Tour

From the time you enter the retail store for So-Cal Speed Shop you know you are some place special. It is an eclectic mix of hot rod parts, clothes, books, art, $150,000 hot rod sculptures too coffee cups.

From here the tour moves to the three shop areas. The first has some wonderful vehicles [...]

Corvette Assembly Plant Tour; Building a ZR1

I have been to the Corvette Assembly Plant in Bowling Green, KY many times and enjoyed every visit. The only problem is you are never allowed to take a camera or even a cell phone into the plant (employees have cell phones and they are on them all the time). NO PICTURES INSIDE THE PLANT! [...]

Corvettes Go Home: Corvette Homecoming Bowling Green 2008

I think this is one of the most beautiful years and color combinations ever built.
Family reunions car be fun or they can be an embarrassment. They have even been know to erupt into violence, some red necks go to family reunions to look for dates! When you are a Corvette or a Corvette owner going [...]

GoodGuys Nashville 2007

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You folks liked the 2008 photos so much I decided to go back and pick out a few from 2007 and 2006 and see if you liked them just as much. If you do I will roll out some more. What else would you like to see?

This is one beautiful and wild custom.

Don’t rush by [...]

John Force NHRA Champion and one of the real Good Guys

I just got back from visiting the John Force Race Station compound in Yorba Linda California and it just reminds me how much Katina and I think of this racer. It seems so many racers are all about money and fame. Obviously John Force has plenty of both but it is also obvious he is [...]