Lone Star Round Up Coverage – Detroit to KC to Austin and back

It started as an idea about 3 weeks ago…..how about we make to it the Round Up this year (for the first time)? The next day, we got our rooms, and registered the car to make it official. We just started driving the car about a month ago, and are still in the shakedown phase (about 300 miles on the car so far), so heading to Austin from Michigan in the car didn’t set well. We borrowed a trailer from a friend, and headed south….and actually we were picking up a couple of transmissions and other parts anyway, so we needed something to haul them in.

We left Michigan Tuesday after work, and drove through the night to KC. We made KC our halfway mark, and stayed at my parent’s house. We got into town Wednesday late morning, and got the car out to cruise around town. I caught up with some friends that I hadn’t seen for a while – including stopping by John Swander’s shop. He was just getting back with the Jive Five coupe to prep it for the road trip to Austin the next day:




Thursday morning, we headed for Austin at 4am, and rolled into town around 3:30pm. After getting checked into the hotel, we got in the car and started to get familiarized with the area…..found Austin Speed Shop, the hot spots on Congress, and the fairgrounds. We caught up with Swander that evening and hung out on Congress.

Friday morning, we hit Juan in a Million for a breakfast taco before heading out to the show:




One of the first things we did once we got there was walk the swap meet. We picked up the pair of ’32 shells, and did some creative organizing to fit them in the roadster along with our other things:

 

The rest of the photos are from the show:

Jim Smith’s ’40 sedan:

 

Bass’ Stuff:

 

Swander’s Rolling Bones 5 window, and the Jive Five 5 window:










John Jackson introduced us to Mark Ford while we were at Austin Speed Shop…great guy and a great car:

 

Mark Warrick’s ’33 roadster:

 

We also met the guys from Deluxe Speed Shop……Scott and Mark were great:

 

Reggie’s ’36 was awesome:

 

Good to meet you. Glad you made it home safely.
Jim

 

Great pictures! What a good time.

 

The man in charge:


Norwell working his booth:


Acme as always:


Some cool bicycles were behind their booth

 

It was great to meet you too Jim and thanks for the hospitality.

 

Great pics man. I have a few aerial shots of you from our room. Right about the time you were unloading the pair of grills. I'll post them up shortly.

 

It was a pleasure to meet Bruce and Danny from Bruce’s Rod Shop:








More from the show:





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Your shots are great! I looked out my window of my hotel room Saturday morning and saw you leaving the parking lot in the roadster

 

Cory, Is this yours? I took this early Saturday morning:

 

Nice! Any shot's of KC BBQ?

 

Real nice pics!

 

DW’s Model A:








The paint on Kevin’s car is amazing:

 

Thanks for posting the great pics dude! Looks like a great time!

Mike

 

Nope - that's not mine, though it looks nice

Chris - once we found out that Lee McBee wasn't playing there Sunday night, we decided just to make a pitstop in KC and get back on the road that evening. It sucks, because I used to love going to BB's on Sunday nights when I lived there.

 

Great coverage, thanks for posting.

 

This guy needs no introduction:

 

We were parked next to Jim Saturday – great to meet you:


Hanging out on Congress Friday and Saturday night:






And the birthday boy:

 

Thanks for posting these great pics.
Looks like an awesome time.
Lot's of nice stuff,but I gotta say it again,
Damn,I love your car!!!

 

Great pics and looks like you guys had a great trip.

 

Excellent pics Cory.

The Truck with the 2 grilles in it is great. Some great treasures and memories . Hope the trip back was safe.

V