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Hill Country Street Rods

Hill Country Street Rods
“Nostalgia Drags Show-N-Go"
Temple Academy Raceway,
Austin, Texas
May 6, 2008
Pictures By Richard “Too Low” Haas

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"Every year the Hill Country Street Rods car club hosts "The Nostalgia Drags Show-N-Go" at Central Texas' oldest drag strip, Temple Academy Raceway, which is a little over an hour north of Austin. This get together features nostalgia dragsters, bracket racing, flathead eliminator, and car show.  Located alongside scenic Texas highway 95 and shaded by huge pecan trees, Little River (as it's called by the locals) is a laid back and comfortable place to spend a day, whether you are out to break into the 10's on the strip or just hang out and kick tires with other gear heads. 

The only mis-hap this year came when Bob Lawsons blown big block powered Henry J decided to hang a turn right out of the gate. Bob was fine, but not so for the Henry J! But if I know Bob, he's already workin' on another one!"

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This '30 Ford pickup belongs to Gary Baker and looks like maybe he came out from Hillbilly land in it

 Warren Jenny brought out his freshly re-built '27 Ford roadster Looking good Warren

 Looking like it just came off the showroom floor was Tony Maxa's '57 Chevy

 Bart Allen from bastrop and his Dad both drive F-100's and they are both for sale

How about a Hemi stuffed into Bart Allen's purple pickup

 Hill Country Street Rods member Graham Phares believes in flathead power

 All steel is the way Pete Torres describes his candy red '34 Coupe

 I couldn't find any owner info on this radical pickup

 The pearl white paint barely shows up in this shot, but you ought to see it in the sunlight

 a couple of real rods

 Danny from Zip City was all the info on the 5-window coupe

Danny's coupe was stuffed with a big Caddy powerplant

Jalopy Joe Dulin and his wife Copper just can't seem to get enough of cruisin' in this hemi-powered  model A

Gene Painter ran his El Camino down the strip a few times

The flathead class is where this slightly different pickup ran

Reggie Hill has an eye for ''the real thing'' and shows it with this fine deuce roadster

Looks just as good from the rear

The Thunderbolts were out in force and this '32 Ford pickup of Rick Jone's shows where they are comming from

Milano Texas is the home of this Tall T and Eddie Bell

This one will take you back to a different time zone

 Bruce Spokes wants to sell this fine '34 Sedan for some reason

 Another Thunderbolts car but with no owner info

 I think the name on this sweet little '67 Ranchero is A J  Martone

 My kinda car!  Frank Tresner showed off his '55 Ford

 Bob Lawson was telling me that his Henry J was dialed in and running great! Then he crashed it into the starting line barrier

 Way too many horses for such a small corral

 Randy Parks '67 Camaro was not only clean as a whistle, but ran well too

 Randy's engine room

Richard Cowan and his '23 T are from Round Rock Texas

  No owner info, but it is 427 powered

 Another Round Rock car is this '63 Nova belonging to Mark Boothby

One fine turquoise '55 Nomad is owned by Mark Hallock

Ned Mauldin's '53 Studebaker was lookin' good

 Keep your eyes on the road Ned

 A nice powerplant in Ned's Studey

The Thunderbolts strike again

A neat way to cool your gas

 Dan Brinkman showed up in his fine '58

This '50 Chevy Fleetline owned by Gary Clack has a lot of nice Kustom touches

The rear of Gary's Fleetline was lookin' good too

 Maurice Allen will part with his fine F-100 for the right price

Talk about low

 Something you don't see every day is a 4 door Merc convertible

Big brother and little brother

 This Deuce ran strong in the Hot Rod class

The classic look

  Norm Jones is a Hemi man all the way

A couple of muscle cars pair off on the strip

Norms deuce roadster wears a '40 dash

Smokin' 'em up at the starting line

50  A couple of Camaros pair off

 Flatheads in the water box

 The six-banger gets a head start

No owner info on this hand made wooden C-Cab

 Crazy about those Cushmans

 I wonder whats in there that requires locks on the hood

Thank you “Too Low”

 

 

 

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