Grand National Roadster Show ... Jan 20-22/06

It's Wednesday afternoon. I arrived in Pomona after an eight-hour drive. After setting up my camp at the nearby KOA, I decided to drive around to get oriented for set-up day; Thursday. However, to my surprise, I discovered that some folks received letters to set up on Wednesday, the day before most of us. This is a good thing since these folks had big rigs full of stuff. They needed the room to move around and unload. I also learned that I could join the line if I wanted. I discovered this a good 3 hours before a line was formed, and was told where the line would form. Ah ha! I drove to the area, the parking lot of the NHRA museum, parked at where the line would start and within five minutes others milling around got behind me. Now the line was formed ... three hours early with myself at the start.

I had some time to kill so I walked around. In drives this truck and trailer carrying an aqua 1963 bullet-bird with this nice looking panel job. I thought, this look like what Larry Watson would paint, so many years past. To make a long story short, after helping this guy unload the bird I discovered that the guy was, in fact, the original … Larry Watson! Wow … you know, he looks much older then he did in those old magazines. Duh!

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