Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts

Saturday, February 2, 2013

Februrary Schedule

Rundown of all of the things that Royboy Productions will do in February

February 2
Wichita Model A Swap Meet held at the Kansas Pavillion, Park City, KS

February 9
O'Reilly Auto Parts World of Wheels - held at Bartle Hall, Kansas City, MO




Monday, January 21, 2013

2013 Starbird-Devlin Coverage Part 1

The 2013 Starbird-Devlin show is in the books!
Here are some of my favorite photos from the weekend. Thanks again to my kustom family for allowing my Galaxie to park with so many historic and beautiful rides.

Johnny Hammann's tried and true 58 Chevy Impala. It's been basically unchanged since Jan. 1976.
Johnny Hammann's tried and true 58 Chevy Impala. It's been basically unchanged since Jan. 1976.

Mickey's Merc (he washed it!) Once a 4 door, now a 2 door with a ton more kustom touches.


Distant cousins?


 You don't see these every day, and you don't see many cars this clean and straight ever.


One of my favorite Mercs ever.




Mike's 60 Olds fresh from a remodel... gorgeous!


Nice collection!


40 Chevy built by Big Creek Restoration with a band on stage behind it Friday evening.






The Big T


Corey Conyers is restoring a beautiful slingshot. I say it would almost be a shame to paint this body.




Larry James of Flyin Eye Kreations has been working hard to finish up his old Nova in new form






Rob Parker has been working on this Chevy Bobber Pickup Roadster for a few years, it's pretty interesting to see all of the details that have gone into it.








That's it for this time, click any of those photos to go to the entire gallery.

See you at a show!

Travis

Friday, January 18, 2013

Starbird-Devlin Load-in Photos

So at 9:30am on January 17, 2013 I did something I'd never done before. I drove my Galaxie into it's first ever indoor car show. The Starbird-Devlin Car Show at Century II in Wichita, KS, "The Wichita Tradition." This is the 56th annual show, previously known as the Starbird Rod & Custom Show, it's been a tradition in Wichita for a long long time.

I was lucky enough to be a part of the Kustom City display this year. Thanks to the new paint work done on my Galaxie by Jeff Myers, my car has been transformed to 60's Boulevard cruiser. Doug Reed put together the Kustom City display of street kustoms from the area and my Galaxie was lucky enough to make the group.

So we rolled in, positioned ourselves and started cleaning the cars. It wasn't long before it was time to head back to the day job, but I managed to grab a couple of quick snapshots while I was there.

My Galaxie in Kustom City


Wednesday, January 16, 2013

A Chance Encounter

September 2009
I was barely out of a 3 year long battle to get out of debt, in fact I was a week out of it. Still didn't have much money as the last of my dollars and cents went to pay off the last debt I'd had, but I knew there was a show that looked to be kool happening in Wichita. The Stray Kat Kustoms Starliner show is always the weekend after Labor Day. So that morning I had to decide if I could make it until the end of the month if I spent gas money driving to this show. I had been to the Stray Kat Kustoms Rocket show in Fort Scott, KS early in the year and I loved the cars that I'd seen, and I'd always wanted to go to the Stray Kat 500 but hadn't made it yet.

Of course I went. Of course. (I almost always go when there's a chance to see some kool rides) Determined to go on the cheap I stopped along the way at a BBQ contest that some friends were competing in, free food! SCORE! So after a free beer or two and an insane amount of amazing BBQ, I headed to the Starliner show. What I found was a great collection of kool kustoms and hotrods parked amongst a bunch of retired aircraft.



Tuesday, January 15, 2013

New Stencil Shirt Pre-order Ends Wednesday!

A couple of weeks ago I announced a new shirt design for Royboy Productions. The shirts have been available for pre-order since then, that ends Wednesday night January 16th at midnight. Order at royboyproductions.com Not only do these new hot rod Model A stencil shirts express all that is hot rod, stripped down, nothing unneeded just the car in all of its awesomeness. All of the profits from these shirts go to help pay for gas, hotels, cameras, websites, etc that provide all of these 33,000 images to you! Support Royboy Productions to help ensure you always get the coverage from all of the best midwest hot rod & kustom shows!



Monday, January 14, 2013

Friends of Royboy: American Hot Rod Foundation

From time to time this blog will be used to share some info on a site, custom/hotrod shop, or organization that are friends of mine.

This first we'll feature the American Hot Rod Foundation. I first learned of the AHRF through their page on facebook, a friendship that I'm glad I've found. Their feed on facebook is full of fantastic historic shots of historic hot rods and kustoms.

Head over to their site ahrf.com for more than your fair share of historic photos, stories and videos. Just a click on their Legends page on their site will have your mind reeling with all of the info that scrolls down onto your screen.

The Video page has trailer from there fantastic DVD "Deuce" I've seen it and I loved it.