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Apr 26th, 2026 | | AD Chevy Trucks  Over 6,000 pictures Brad Allen has an awesome collection of Chevrolet factory pictures that he has set up from film strips. Check them out!
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| | | | Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 1,132 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 1,132 | My son and I were invited to an invitational car show held in Machesny Park (Rockford), IL. He showed his '69 Pontiac GTO Judge and I showed the '49 Suburban. The show was held in an abandoned Menards building out of the weather. It was a 3-day show over a weekend. He won Best Original Muscle Car and I won Best Post-War Modified Truck. I'm the one with no hair. https://picasaweb.google.com/100431832303894066099/May132013#5877620909042358770 | | | | | Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 649 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 649 | Can't open link?
Did you get the cross member swapped out yet?
I'd really like to see some pic's
Phil | | | | | Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 4,215 Moderator | | Moderator Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 4,215 | | | | | | Joined: Nov 2001 Posts: 1,517 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Nov 2001 Posts: 1,517 | Congratulations, Weeds. All that hard work is starting to pay off,,besides the smiles,,waves,,thumbs up,,and compliments you get along the way.
Beautiful job!! The link wont open, but ive already seen pics of your truck.
Marty | | | | | Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 1,132 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 1,132 | Yak, Have not started on crossmember yet but will do so soon. Will take pics.
Link works for me. Thanks Marty and Leo for the compliments. Guys, try thelink again, its working for me.
Weds
| | | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 Bubba - Curmudgeon | | Bubba - Curmudgeon Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 | Congratulations, Weeds (and Son). The link you gave is probably only for private/member viewership. I also checked your public picasweb albums and could not find it. | | | | | Joined: May 2001 Posts: 7,438 Extreme Gabster | | Extreme Gabster Joined: May 2001 Posts: 7,438 | I'll bet you were both grinnin' from ear to ear on the way home. Congratulations. Having ridden in your truck, I know how sweet it is and deserving of the award. | | | | | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 | great,locked out on you link
Redryder pixMy HotrodA veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard, or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to The 'United States of America', for an amount of "up to and including my life."I am fighting cancer and I am winning the fight | Pain is part of life; misery is an option. | | | | | Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 14,522 Moderator: Welcome Centre, Southern Bolters, Legion Hall | | Moderator: Welcome Centre, Southern Bolters, Legion Hall Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 14,522 | Weeds, congratulations. You certainly earned, and deserve it. I told Karla that she had ridden in an Award Winning surburban when we were up there and she just smiled  Said to tell you and Poly hello.... and she still has the bug to get her pilots license!! How is the Pontiac coming along? | | | | | Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 1,132 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 1,132 | Cletis thanks for the compliment/ Coming from you it means a lot.
Weeds | | | | | Joined: Dec 2004 Posts: 8 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Dec 2004 Posts: 8 | I fixed the link for the old man. (I'm not the kid who won the trophy though)
Try it again, everybody.
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| | | | | Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 14,522 Moderator: Welcome Centre, Southern Bolters, Legion Hall | | Moderator: Welcome Centre, Southern Bolters, Legion Hall Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 14,522 | Thanks W-T-Y. Great shot. Weeds, your looking mighty good. Glad to see your still kicking butt and taking names | | | | | Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 1,132 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 1,132 | Alvin, I am not exactly kicking butt anymore. My back has hurt all my working life and now I have the shingles on the left side of my face and in my eye.
Went to the surgeon that did the 2 surgeries on my back, told me that there isn't much more he could do for me. He allowed as how old age is catching up with me. He had me fitted with a back brace which does absolutely no good.
I guess I will just keep plugging along and not give up just yet. I take some solace in the fact that there are people who are a lot worse off than me. I have a nephew with lupus and a bad heart. He has been in the hospital twice this week and almost died both times. His mother(my sister) is taking care of him along with her husband who is in a wheelchair with MS. So I am pretty lucky after all.
BTW, how are you getting along.
weeds
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 64 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 64 | Congrats to the both of you! Cant beat a family in automotive sports. ;-) | | | | | Joined: Jul 2012 Posts: 82 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jul 2012 Posts: 82 | Great work on the suburban Weeds. Trophys well deserved by the looks of it | | |
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