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Peter Koning in USA
Peter is a long time hot rodder and supporter of Let's Go Cruisin. He's left his business, Hoppers Stoppers in the capable hands of his staff to travel the US for 12 months. Sure makes some interesting reading! |
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Another Week Goes By
Did another drive from Atlanta to Bowling Green, usual deal of sit a bit over the speed limit and steer the smooth old freeway for 5 hours.
I must say the county out here is really nice in Autumn, weather about right and luckily no rain of late. Drove out of Georgia, through Tennessee and into Kentucky,
The event was held at Beech Bend Park which sits in rolling hills a couple of miles outside of the town, the place looked like a Horse Farm at first then we see a big old amusement park with an old wooden roller coaster and a water park and things. Then behind that the drag strip , 1/4 mile full concrete strip with really great old fashion covered wooden grandstands both sides. These are about 20 feet from the strip so we can see all the action up close. They also have a 1/4 mile speedway oval but with bitumen, not dirt, so racing there would be interesting and fast. All very 60's feel and the weather every day was perfect.
This goodguys event was a combined car show and Nostalgia drag event, with about 1500 rods and street machines, and maybe 200 eligible nostalgia drag cars, from old gassers to front engine nitro and gas rails, a few old 70's nitro funny cars, and a lot of eligible 60's muscle cars, no high tech allowed. Small swap meet and the usual trade stands too.
Took a lot of photos which I will send later, probably in two lots. Got long distance award as usual, probably wont enter this category when I go to Charlotte as its not fair to the others who also travel big distances.
So that all went well, stayed Sunday night so I could be at the Corvette Factory for the tour first thing when it opened 8.00 Monday, luckily they went back to work that morning after a 2 week holiday so it was open for tours. Pretty much as you expect seeing the base chassis then a body added, wiring, interior , drive train, all seems prebuilt off site, all parts already painted and part assembled at other places, this certainly is an assembly factory, things like the engines are assembled in Detroit and trucked in.
Back to Atlanta in the afternoon, now a bit of a sit around and local touring until the 28th when I will drive to Charlotte later next week.
Over the last few months I must have seen 10 thousand road side billboards, would have seen 5 "Worlds Largest Truckstops" and 20 "Worlds Largest Fireworks Outlets" That's got me beat, these huge fireworks sheds are never open except for those few special days per year so they must sell a whole lot in only a few days, I'll tell you later.
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