Stovebolt.com Forums The Side Lot Annual Stovebolt Reunion (Kansas City) 2011 - Seventh Annual Stovebolt Reunion

Jordan. I hope it works. [hosting.photobucket.com]. This was at his house.Jordan Now. [facebook.com]

A little re-cap of the some of the days.


The Aldersons

For Thursday, KC Caveman (Bill Alderson) invited early Stovebolters to their place for a picnic on Thursday evening. (Bill only had two posts since 2009 when he first registered. The invite was post #2. )

Scott (48 big trucks) was the Stovebolt liaison with the Alderson's. Such a great time. Great folks. Great food. Incredible stuff to see. What a grand place for a bunch of GM gearheads to spend time looking at some of Bill and Wayne's completed works - from tractors and equipment to all shapes and sizes of trucks. And a chance to see some of their new projects. We have this in the Bolt Bucket: "2011 Alderson Project" [s160.photobucket.com] It's a 1951 GMC 640 Truck Tractor -- this link is to the completed truck (April 2012) in the Stovebolt Gallery. It's an exciting, well-written story (John did it ) and worth the read. (Note in there, at the bottom, are three of Bill's truck that made it to the Gallery. Not listed is the NAPCO 1972 1-Ton Chevy C30 -- another good read.

It was good to have Scott there so the three of them (Bill, Wayne and Scott) could talk to different folks at different spots about different metal objects.

That wrapped up that day pretty much. We had a little Hot Wash at the end of the day at the Lodge, especially for those who missed it. Off to bed: tomorrow was a new day with another new adventure.



Friday morning we met at the Lodge's breakfast bar as planned and we paced out the days events. First stop was to meet at the Show Field at Fed X, to help set up the Stovebolt site (canopies, tables, figure parking arrangement, etc.). We helped Mongo and Gaileen, as needed. It was fun to have the Alderson's show up, too! We were thinking Bill and Patti may still be wondering what kind of Nuts we all are. We are StoveBOLTS. Being a NUT is how we "come together" -- so to speak.

A few pictures please:



Tony (4-5-6 Chevy Trucks) Smith Tour

Once all that was set, we loaded up at 1pm and headed Tony (4-5-6 Chevy Trucks) Smith's place for a tour. We checked out his current projects, and had some "general truck talk." Big pizza and some snacks for the hard working looking folks. Some of those pictures [s160.photobucket.com] are in their own space on the Bolt Bucket for KC 2011 and a few are here with this post. A few more are in with the overall KC 2011 Reunion Bolt Bucket. [s160.photobucket.com]


That night we met up at 6 pm for the opening event for the weekend: a Cruise Night for the truck show, with a live concert band. I believe this the one Ron may have mentioned with reference to Jordon (JDL) staying up late listening to them.


Of course, we had the evening Hot Wash at the Lodge, with an opportunity to tell the folks who missed the day's events.


Next stop: The Show on Saturday.

If this was the first year to go out to the Alderson's.... and I think it was ... THAT was spectacular. The wow factor of Bill's collection was only matched by the hospitality of the Alderson family.

It was also the year we decided to live it up a little and act like high-rolling dot com entrepreneurs and instead of renting a minivan in KC for the weekend (as we had previously), we got a yellow Camaro convertible.

Trip out to Ton'y was awesome -- what a facility he has there.

12 years ...

He had quite a few trucks and a nice business going. He asked our group if we could drive some of the trucks across town to a different yard he had. I was driving one (Alvin was with me) when I barely touched the brake pedal. That truck pulled so hard to the left that I almost ended up in the other lane. Scary but fun.

In the first post, that "rainbow" truck is Bill's firetruck. That truck, a 427 truck, ran out of fuel just a few miles from his house, east of Independence. All we had was 5 gallons with us. We put that in thinking we could limp to a gas station. Nope, Bill drove it all the way to the show on 5 gallons. Not sure how but he did it!

Also, it appears my wife Sherry wasn't able to make it that year...
Scott

Well hello there, Peggy! Ron told me about this post and i finally found it.

Yes, as you, Alvin and Ron have stated, the Stovebolt Page and the great group of people I connected with were instrumental in getting me started in what eventually became a career. Many truck parts, tools and donations from too many members to count.

Dave Feltner drove down and hauled the truck home for me and that was the beginning. Edit (it's what I do) by Peggy. Hope you don't mind but I'm adding a link to your Gallery page since Dave Feltner did a great job of telling the story about getting the '54 home for your place. The story was uploaded April 2009. And for those interested, the first entry by Jordon was in 2008 when he was 13, talking about finding this truck three years earlier. Yes ... when he was 10. This is HARDCORE STOVEBOLT!

Many hours of diagnostic I/T support from everyone as i tried to upload pictures over a dial up connection! Just the wealth of knowledge in the forums explained in a way I could understand and in very good detail. Every question was a good question no matter if it was how to adjust the valves or where to put engine oil in.

It all led me to a career working for Caterpillar. I've been here ten years now since I graduated high school and I'm one of a couple people rebuilding engines on a contract that seems to be a big deal for us -- so work is going well.

I'm working on putting a lift in my garage. Hopefully later this year, the 54 will get some much needed love. It gets tinkered with here and there but not like it should.

I've had a couple other projects the last 5 or 6 years but they're all done or finding new homes.

If I remember correctly, that Camaro was bright yellow and there was a fire truck ride shortly thereafter maybe at Aldersons. Can't remember if I drove it too or not. John might remember. Between Aldersons, touring Jim Carter's warehouse i believe and just being there in general was jaw dropping for me.

Hope to make it later this year with Ron! Can't thank everyone here enough for everything they've done throughout the years for sure.

We're all proud of you Jordan. Keep us posted.

Jordan it was yellow and I saw a picture with you in it but I can't find it again.

Ron,

Is this the Camero [s160.photobucket.com] you are taking about? Baby Bear is sitting in this one.

Yes. I have the car picture somewhere, looked for an hour. I saw it in the last few days with JDL in it. I think maybe it is one of your posts.