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Dave--July-13--Best Western Inn at Smithfield (I assume thats near Plattsburgh). 518-561-7750 Love to meet you.---Brian

Originally Posted by brianrupnow

Dave--July-13--Best Western Inn at Smithfield (I assume thats near Plattsburgh). 518-561-7750 Love to meet you.---Brian

Brian - I know exactly where it is - we ate dinner at a restaurant (Butcher Block - very good) just down the street on Monday - the LL's birthday. I'll be there if at all possible

Originally Posted by IC2

Brian - I know exactly where it is - we ate dinner at a restaurant (Butcher Block - very good) just down the street on Monday - the LL's birthday. I'll be there if at all possible

I will look foreward to seeing you, Dave.

Your excitement bleeds from the threads posted. Time to calm down, get a good nights sleep, and travel safe!! Hope you have a great trip!!

Brian - I don't know if you are looking at these at your hotel stops - I cannot make it to Plattsburgh on the 13th. My daughter and grandson are arriving today through Tuesday 14th for a visit. I'm sorry that we can't meet up

How were the Atlantic Nationals??---Well---Kinda like an old Clint Eastwood show, "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly"!!!--I left Barrie on thursday to drive to Perth, Ontario, where I would pick up my buddy Doug, and join the tour at the Perth curling Club on Friday.--And it rained--a wet cold, nasty bitch of a rain, all the way to Perth.--I had my new side windows in, and they worked great---BUT--they created a low pressure area inside the cab of the RPU, which sucked rain in thru the stitched seams in my nice top, and dripped down the back of my neck. By the time I reached perth, I was wet, and cold, and by the end of the day, I had caught a cold. I stayed at Dougs on thursday night, and Friday at noon, in--you guessed it--wet cold nasty rain, we joined up with the tour.

On Monday, July 6th, we drove--(thru the rain)--are you beginning to see a theme here??? to Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. We crossed the new bridge to PEI in a combination of rain and overcast skys. There was SOME sun at random intervals. We stayed overnight in PEI, and drove back across the bridge the next day in the same kind of weather, and on to North Sydney, Nova Scotia. By this time, I was seriously considering turning tail and heading back for Barrie.

At some point in this incredible journey, (it was on Sunday) we stopped in Bathurst, New Brunswick, for a group dinner. Someone noticed that my passenger side lower front shock bolt had disappeared. (Probably somewhere in Quebec!!!). The mayor of Bathurst, who is a hotrodder himself got on the microphone after the meal and said that anyone who had a car problem should speak to him. I introduced myself at once, and a fine gentleman named Curtiss Bennet of "Curts Auto Appraisals" and "Curts Auto Repair" opened his garage, put my rpu up on the hoist, and found a shock bolt and bushing for me. He wouldn't take any money, so I told him that he would get mentioned on my favourite website!!!---Thanks, Curt!!!

We arrived in Moncton, New Brunswick on the 10th of July and the sun was shining. The downtown was closed off, and a couple of hundred cars of various years were spread around the downtown. There was a live band in the center of town, and of all the strangest damn things, they were playing Pan flute music????---Somebody should definitly speak to the event organizers in Moncton!!! Doug and I went over to the Centennial Park and registered my roadster pickup for the Nationals, next day. We stayed at a nice hotel in Moncton that night.

On the 11th, the sun was up, hot and beautifull, no rain in sight. My cold was starting to leave, and off we went to the Atlantic Street Rod Nationals. We had registered the night before, so we got in thru the gates quite early, like about 8:45 in the morning, and got a really great parking spot. Okay---This is going to probably hurt somebody, but I have to say it. The vendors area totally sucked. There were vendors selling sunglasses, ladies scarves, ice cream, Napa auto parts and chrome refinishing. None of the major aftermarket hotrod parts manufacturers were in evidence. The swap meet area had damn little there, and what was there was pure garbage. My primary interest in hotrods is pre 1948. I would hazard a guess that less than 5 percent of the cars at these nationals fell into that category. The park grounds were beautifull, and if you enjoy cars from the sixties, seventies and eighties, then probably you would have enjoyed yourself. The goody bags were full of paper "Don't touch my Hotrod" signs, a plastic dash plaque, and a one pint bottle of Mothers car wash concentrate. for a $40.00 entry fee. I mean, come on, Jesus, I've seen better goody bags given away at small town car shows in the boonies!!--Perhaps I've grown old and jaded, but man, if that was Canada's largest Nationals, we better go back to fur trapping and eating pine trees.

Next day, the 12 of July, it was off to Bangor, Maine thru a sun/rain mix. --To be fair, mostly sun. On arriving in Bangor, we realized that there is no good way to get to Plattsburgh, New York without driving thru a zillion little towns which all have a 30 MPH speed limit. It took a LONG FRIGGIN TIME to travel the 300 miles to Plattsburgh the next day---

Okay---Picture time. I'm not going to fill this up with pictures of all the different hotrods we seen---and there were a lot!!! This is more of a pictorial documentry of the trip itself. Firstly, here is the tour organizer, Frank Colgoni and his beautifull 32 coupe. This gentleman put an incredible amount of work and pre planning into the tour.

We stopped at a little fishing village/restruant/tourist catcher spot. and took the obligatoyr "Down East Lighthouse Picture"---

Here we are at another stop on the Cabot trail---Thats me in the hat.--also another driving shot.