National Roadster Show 1958

As promised, I’ve included a few pages from the 1958 Oakland Roadster Show program to peek back 51 years ago and see what was on the Exposition floor that weekend. The show award icon “Rhoda” has made the cover once again, holding up the winged cheater slick of glory! I guess they decided to drop the guilt trip on the forward pages this time around. The Ninth Annual’s big attraction was watching a roadster built day by day during the show by Romeo Palamides (former Hot Rod cover car builder) and his crew. Good stuff.

Some highlights: Entry #451 John Lane’s T roadster pick up, was a Hop Up cover vehicle. Duane Steck brought the now-iconic ‘54 Chevy Moonglow up from Long Beach. (How I would have loved to seen this car up close and in person.) “Customized Sport Roadsters” made a strong showing, mainly comprised of Corvettes, T-birds, and hand made sport jobs. Nowadays, you rarely see this type of custom- Most guys go stock, street rod or gasser with these cars… Also worth a read is the Welcome page by Al & Mary Slonaker.

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Vintage Imagery

So I’m going to Bonneville for the first time. I don’t know what to expect… at all… I just know that I can’t remember the last time I was this excited. I’m like a kid on Christmas eve ready to receive his Red Rider BB gun and about to piss himself in anxiety. It’s that serious boys. I’m fired up.

So fired up, in fact, that I’ve been devouring all of my old Bonneville photos. I’ve probably got a collection of close to a thousand pre-1960 shots on my hard drive and I wouldn’t be surprised if I looked at each twice in the last 24 hours. I’m a sick man and just like a junky on the east side, I needed to find more imagery to scratch that itch. On a whim, I searched Flickr and hit the jackpot. Here’s a few of my favorites:

All of these photos belong to a single collection on flickr. Some of the photos in the collection aren’t related to Bonneville at all, are fairly common, and more than likely you’ve seen them a time or two, but others seem pretty fresh. You can check them all out here. I have no idea who this Flickr member is, but I would be surprised if he wasn’t a HAMBer. Whoever you are, THANK YOU. I needed the fix.

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