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2008 - The Fourth Annual Stovebolt Reunion in Kansas City (MO)


Here's the webpage for this year. We had a bigger group this year. And we had purple shirts! Was really easy to spot us in the crowd. Here's a link to the big image with mouse-over so the folks are named.

This was the year of Ed "Da Oz Tinman" Hoover and there is a lot of "commentary" on that page, too.

Anyone who wants to post comments, remembrances, or photos from 2008, please do. Or earlier years ... see the three years already set up: 2005, 2006 2007 and this one, 2008.

Thanks,
Peg

That was my first year but the 54 started overheating 50 miles from home. I drove my PT cruiser. The 54 missed one more and I drove my 2008 Buick Encore.

I have all the stuff that I could find for the 4th Annual Reunion in Kansas City in 2008. Fixed all the links in the pages.

Reading the story again (a few times even) ... gosh what a great time. Ed "Da Oz Tinman" Hoover was a major contributor to Stovebolt for the event. He really bumped up the Stovebolt image a lot! The story tells it all.

And, then, we got a great Saga from him about getting TOTO to the Reunion.

And, THEN, we got a great story in the Gallery from Mongo telling about his score (1954 GMC 2-ton) he made during the event.

And, of course, we have a nice bunch of pictures in the Bolt Bucket [s160.photobucket.com] that tell even more of the story.

I'll not re-tell the story already linked. I'm hoping some of the Bolters can add to it.

If I come across more 2008 stuff, I'll add it in here.

~ Peggy

It’s those stories that got me to attend my first Reunion in 2009!
Didn’t take the wife cause I didn’t know what to expect. Soon as I got home, I told Vicki that we were both going the next year.
We both have been hooked ever since.

Don

That was my first year since no old vehicle that year I have only found 2 pictures that I think are me. Not sure.

Ron, isn't this you? [s160.photobucket.com]

Did you not take any pictures when you were there?


I liked this shot. [s160.photobucket.com] I was in charge of "holding" John's camera. This was before cell phones with camera I guess!

Announced in the August News page.

Always a lot, well some, detail on getting it all started. Still fun to remember it all.

The September News page has a nice re-cap of the highlights of the Reunion.

(Sorry. Some of those links are not working but they are covered in the main story. The forum for the event is long gone. )

Thanks, Peggy. that is the one I found. Not much of a picture taker and what i did take Photobucket ate them because I would not pay the ransom.

Ron,

That's too bad. That's happened to a lot of people. And remember the Webshots ... all those folks who lost their pictures?

I realized the other day why the Reunion web pages stopped after this year. Our first grandchild was born December 2007! For six years, we were "day care" for three (coming two years at a time). And then after school for a few more hears. Loving every minute of it.

So ... things definitely changed for a bit.

Still poking thru what I do have and will get some place-holders in here. Some people posting in other forums about later years so it'll be good to get them to post some in here.



Sorry about the pictures ... I just had to share.

Well, my big take away from this one is that this was the year Rusty Rod nearly turned me into a quadraplegic ... He came sneaking up behind me at the American Inn Poolside Soiree and put me in a headlock not realizing I had only recently been released from having to wear a neck brace from a neck injury. Luckly, between my sqwaking, and Miss Peggy's intervention, he released me before any thing bad happened.

I then busted out all his teeth with a beer bottle and we've been besties ever since.

Well ... maybe not, but that's my version and I'm sticking with it.

It was also the year we all got to meet Sabrina and Alberto. We all miss that girl. She was always a welcomed presence on the site.

I missed having Paul there that year -- *I* had to answer technical questions about the site ...