Charleston WV Rod Run & Doo Wop Sep 30-Oct 4, 2015

[Frosty]

The 10th annual Charleston Rod Run and Doo Woo will hit Kanawha Blvd (route 60) on Thursday, Oct 1st. The kick off cruise in starts Wednesday night at Mardi Gras casino with two $1000 drawings.

I will be there with Lucy for the 8th year in a row. Rumor has it that GE and the Roadkill Special might even show up.

Www.charlestonwvcarshow.com

[JUSTA6]

The 10th annual Charleston Rod Run and Doo Woo will hit Kanawha Blvd (route 60) on Thursday, Oct 1st. The kick off cruise in starts Wednesday night at Mardi Gras casino with two $1000 drawings.

I will be there with Lucy for the 8th year in a row. Rumor has it that GE and the Roadkill Special might even show up.

Www.charlestonwvcarshow.com

Need pic's for sure! 

[Ringo64]

Can you win both drawings for $2k?

[Frosty]

Can you win both drawings for $2k?

Theoretically no. You have one drivers ticket. So two separate winners.

However, I have won over $125 in trivia questions at $25 a question. I have also won $85 from the free $10 cash the casino gives you (I won on slots). My first year I won the longest distance award which paid for my hotel that year. So I am good at winning cash while I am there.

[Frosty]

Definitely....especial if the Roadkill Special and Deerslayer show up.

[Frosty]

I am heading out Wednesday morning bright and early. I will be in town in time to check in and then I will be heading straight out to the Mardi Gras casino in Cross Lanes for the kick off cruise in event. I hope to win me at least one of them $1000 give aways and perhaps win some more cash in the casino.

 

GE is suppose to come this weekend and rumor has it he has more stump water, this time for Indymanjoe, JUSTA, and notallthere. Hell, I am going to feel like a genuine bootlegger at that point.

 

 

[Ringo64]

Don't get pulled over by the rozzers

[JUSTA6]

I am heading out Wednesday morning bright and early. I will be in town in time to check in and then I will be heading straight out to the Mardi Gras casino in Cross Lanes for the kick off cruise in event. I hope to win me at least one of them $1000 give aways and perhaps win some more cash in the casino.

 

GE is suppose to come this weekend and rumor has it he has more stump water, this time for Indymanjoe, JUSTA, and notallthere. Hell, I am going to feel like a genuine bootlegger at that point.

Safe trip buddy.

[Frosty]

Thanks bud! I am going down with a trunk full of Gold Eagle products and coming back with hooch! Go figure!

[stratman]

Thanks bud! I am going down with a trunk full of Gold Eagle products and coming back with hooch! Go figure!

 

[Frosty]

Wrong Hooch....no Turner either stratman.

[Frosty]

I made a new friend today in Charleston. His name is Don.

 

 

Professional Pinstripping

 

When was the first time you saw a '51 Willys Aero Eagle?

 

Don firing up his Swamp Rat dragster

 

Honest to Gawd....it's a Yugo.

 

Matching pair of Boss 302s

 

Bigfoot is here too.

 

Mercury Montclair

[JUSTA6]

Wow hangin with the DON.  You da man.

[Frosty]

I am doing the Route 60 Cruise later this morning, up to the New River Gorge Bridge. Rain is expected to come in later today and in the cards for tomorrow.

 

ZZ Top Wanna Be?

 

'54 Chevy Pickup with a subtle flame job

 

Dodge Lil' Red Wagon pickup

 

Yenko Nova - not sure if it is real or a clone

 

Machine Gun Shooting / Flaming Throwing / Rat Rod of the Post-Zombie Apocolypse

- saw this shooting flames at Mardi Gras casino on Wednesday night and it will again tonight.

[Professur]

Not exactly ideal ragtop weather there, Snowball. Might be time to boogie.

[Frosty]

I will come Sunday Pro. However, I got a text from GE this morning that he is indeed headed this way. He had just gotten out of work and he was packing up and headed towards Charleston. So I expect him to show up anytime now.

 

I just finished up the Route 60 poker run. My poker hand was for crap (Ace,King, Five, Nine, Deuce - no flush hand either, the weather was for crap-rain, and we had a new route this year that took us south of Charleston and nowhere near the New River Gorge bridge or anything scenic (WTF?). 

[Frosty]

Gorgeous Cadillac Lead Sled

 

Recreated Pontiac Race from the Day - owner worked for this old Pontiac dealership and re-created one of their drag cars

 

Dual supercharged Keith Black prepared 392 Hemi dragster....awesome. I dare you to get behind that wheel!

 

The Route 60 cruise and poker run was disappointing. We were only on Route 60 for a mile. We ended up heading south on Charleston down US 119 to a new Lincoln/Ford dealership. It was not that scenic or interesting cruise and I drew a loosy poker hand too. It rained the entire time too. We had only a dozen cars on the cruise because of the bad weather.

 

An original first 12 Dodge factory built A/FX funny cars. The placid details on the changes made to the car in 1966.

 

This Tempest is owned by fellow POCI member and my buddy, Bill Muck. He has been to Woodward with me too. When he is in town, he stays with Marge Sawruk, the widow of the late Pontiac historian, John Sawruk.

 

After the concert on the levy by Band of Oz, they brought in some heaters to warm us up on a damp cold night.

 

 

BTW - I won the 50/50 drawing tonight. It was worth $100. Damn I wish it was the lottery instead.

 

I spoke to GE just before dinner. He was waiting for his wife to get home before leaving for Charleston. So I expect to see him and the missus in the morning at the latest. He also mentioned something about having to change 16 spark plugs too. I don't know, I didn't want to know....you know?

 

Tomorrow's festivities include the Nitro Car Club assembling a punch of parts into a running car (a Model T). Bigfoot turns a bunch of cars into parts as well. The WV Drag Racing Hall of Fame inductees 20 new members (this is the 3rd year for the Hall of Fame). Fireworks are after 2 live bands, the Esquirers and the Motown Review, perform on the levy stage.

[Professur]

I expect he'll need help changing out the O2 sensors again by the time he gets there

[stratman]

Wrong Hooch....no Turner either stratman.

Oh... then Lucy must be...

[Frosty]

Well GE appears to be a no show - registration closed 20 minutes ago. I've tried calling and texting him all morning. I am wondering if all the rain and flooding down by Charlotte did him in. He has not answered his phone.

 

The big fireworks spectacular here has also been cancelled. They need dry weather to set-up the fireworks. Once set-up, the fireworks can be launched in the rain. It appears the rain is about to stop but it has been raining since last night here.

[Professur]

sounds like more wildlife may have run afowl of the RoadKiller

[Ringo64]

Amazing pics, Frosted one! Looks like a good time

[Frosty]

The rain continued thru the late afternoon. GE was a no show. I got a text from him around 5 pm, something about needing to work on the Roadkill Special. I think the headlight fluid needed to be topped off or the muffler bearings needed to be adjusted.

 

Bigfoot doing what he does best!

 

Some big rigs where there too.

 

I was asked to be a tiebreaker vote by the Kanawha Valley Corvette club award. We  choose between 3 restored Ford coupes (a '29, '30, and '31). We choose this one because it was also driven - a lot. You could tell by the road rash on the wheels.

 

Here is a '64 GTO race car. Someone built a replica giant Hurst shifter like the one that was attached to a Pontiac Grand Prix back in the sixties with Linda Vaughan on it.

 

...and here is the Linda Vaughan look-a-like too.

 

Here is one for JUSTA....a fellow H-body.

 

Lowered truck

 

Rice rocket with a huge motor

[Ghost]

wow, that Caddy sled and that lowered truck.