I spent Friday night at the opera (my youngest son had one of the
lead roles in Don Giovanni) and then Saturday morning I went to
Manti, Utah for the 4th annual Rat Fink Reunion. I looked for Tom
and Cathy Shannon, but didn't see them there. But it might be cuz
there were a bazillion people attending. For some reason, the
Corvette Club of Utah showed up with just about every late model
Corvette in the state. They pushed the rodders and kustom folks out
into the field next door. But Trixie Roth and the other "Finksters"
have built a "convention center" in the field behind her house...it's
a big change from the way things have been in previous years.
I participated in the Rat Fink Parade in my Ugly Truck (64 C10) and
had a good time rapping the pipes up and down Main St. (292 I6 with
AFB carb, split headers and Cherry Bombs.)
So from Mozart on Friday to Rat Finks on Saturday....and back home
uneventfully Sunday...it's been a good weekend. I even got a bit of
a sunburn. I'll have some pics of the Reunion on my web site in a bit.
Ray the Rat
http://www.chevyasylum.com/
ps...here are pics from last year's RFR:
http://www.chevyasylum.com/cruisin05/050513/050513.html
At 10:19 AM 04/23/2006, BWANA343@aol.com wrote:
>Me and the Insight got invited to a car contest at the NY Auto show Friday,
>and I trailered the car in about four AM to avoid the mid-town traffic. I
>expected a Urban Bling car to win ,so the results of popular vote was
>surprizing.
>"Chopper, King of Cars", new A&E channel show Emcee, awarded me 3rd place at
>the SweetStreetRides contest after the votes were tallied about four PM.. I
>got beat by the 1st place 396 Nova, and a new Neon Turbo with BoomBox
>Amperage came in second.
>As everybody kept asking about " where's the 'stension cord ", or what it
>is, I think I was rong place/rong time. Another guy had a
>Super Cherry 351 Mustang, all original, even the tires, came in last. go
>figger
>So when I left, I did have a crowd watching, which I obliged with a
>smoke-out up 11th ave.
>Loooong day, especially being trapped in a tent with 139 DB crap music
>blasting out. Wished I was unturbo with Zoomies.......coulda' retaliated...
>Bob, turd place turbo,W
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