Stovebolt.com Forums The Side Lot Annual Stovebolt Reunion (Kansas City) Year's Past -- Reunions from days gone by

Glad I’ve been to a couple of reunions and Mongos meet up is on the bucket list of things to do great when you can put faces to posts and meet the real deal. hope Alvin is getting mobile and Ron you have been to few reunions and glad to have Don King as friend now seeing Cletis on the doodle bug bought back good memories

Thanks for all these comments and memories. I'm so tempted to respond but I need to wait a bit.

I've been pondering how to get this all lined up, so stay tuned. Once I get it mapped out, I'm thinking there will be spots where we'd like folks to recall (year by year). THAT'S when I can post, too!

And ... we may have more stuff here on the computers. So I'll have to weed thru that too.

All good. All fun. All memories worth keeping.

Peg

Thanks, Peggy, I was at all those reunions as well. Nice shot of Ned in there. Lots of friendships made at those gatherings.

And finding a bunch of stuff.

But for now, just had to share this one with you all:

A great group photo from KCR 2008. This one has the names mapped over the faces. This is good group!!

My first time was was 2009. Been hooked ever since!

Don

This has been fun. Lots of loose ends to piece together.

From recall with John, the first "Reunion" was a GABFest of sorts. The Genuine Chevy GMC Truck Club of Kansas City provided an automatic gathering. I recall some of the Bolters who were there posted about the event. After talking with some of them afterwards, it seemed that this venue was a perfect spot for an annual, nation-wide event. It was in the middle of the country. Easy to get to. Already had a pile of old truck enthusiasts nearby. A main mover and shaker with the Club and All Truck Nationals (the event name) was Mongo, who was our Hi-Po moderator. All these guys seemed excited about the idea (and proved to be huge promoters!).

Not sure if there are some photos around from that first event, but I'll look. And if anyone has any recollection of that first one, please let us know.

I DO have a write up with great details from the "Second Annual Stovebolt Reunion" - September 2006. It is in an webpage but it isn't in the server, as I could tell. I'll get to that over the next few days.

2008 was my first year, the year that the 54 was to be done and it let me down and never got more than 60 miles and it overheated and I had to drive my PT cruiser but I did make 8 more times and it was great putting a face to the ones that post.

Soooo much fun and so many great people..

Mongo,

Did I get that "first" year right? Basically. John and I were doing our best recollection.

Anything you can add?

That 2008 pic is very cool. There were nine of us from Omaha. My youngest son Michael was even there.

John