The Stovebolt Site Forums The Side Lot Southern Bolters Cruisin the Coast (MS) - October 6-13,2024

Here is someone’s video also from cruise central. You can see all the yellow bags that are people picking up their registration packet.

Another Cruise Central

A lot of wild stuff but several good looking stovebolts and suburban’s.

10,000 Cruisin

Anyone like purple?

Purple

Alvin is into Purple...

🤣😂🤣, to each his own. Not mine. Now I do like a real dark purple that looks black at a first glance till the light hits it just right.

I remember years ago we all had purple shirts at the Stovebolt Reunion in KC
....I may have had something to do with it🙂
Thought it may become the official color!! Still have one and one of my purple Southern Bolters shirt we embroidered.
Tut, you just had to bring it up didnt you.

Yup....

Purple purple. Where did it come from.

A good clue is HERE from the 2007 Stovebot Reunion.

"So, wow, 2007 was a year of firsts for The Stovebolt Page! It was the first time to have shirts and a flag. This was the genesis of the purple. (2 pix)"

Compare it to the 2006 Reunion (only our second one). Those shirts were from the Hoo-ya Shoppe -- a standard black with "Stovebolts Rule" as the insignia.

More story. We had been looking for a color that would stand out in a crowd, to make it easier for us to spot each other, especially when NOT at a Bolter event. We thought orange would be good but Omaha Orange was a popular truck color. So was red, dark blue, green ... you get the picture. We hadn't seen a purple truck yet ... and it could be a subtle purple.

Added to that, we know how hard it is to pick truck paint on-line ... same holds true for fabric colors. The flag turned out more purple than blue so that kinda solitified that decision. I personally liked the idea more and more. (I think Alvin did, too. )

It wasn't until the next year (2008), that the purple shirts really took off. HERE IS that webpage with a great image of Bolters sporting their purple. That image was worth adding to this post.

We were easy to spot in a crowd now!

For me, on the Admin front, in the webpage designs (the html legacy pages), our standard colors had been red, white and blue. Besides the letters, those with the colors for the links. I needed something different than blue. So I used a purple that was subtle. John didn't seem to mind since it wasn't an outlandish purple. More of a blueish purple or purple-y-blue and the links stayed blue or red. I liked it more and more.

So, does that answer any questions.

End of Stovebolt Page history lesson for the day.



By the way, there are a lot more images in that 2007 Stovebolt Reunion thread.

Donald, didn't mean to hijack your thread. I'll move it later once folks have read it enough.

Peggy, no problem and the history lesson just adds to it.

Thanks Peggy. What a trip down memory lane. Seems like yesterday.