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2012 New Years Day Cruise
Jan 1,’12
Story an Photographs by Roger Rohrdanz

Roger Rohrdanza

Roger

   For many years this New Years Day garage tour has taken hot rodders to some special places.  The 2012 Cruise began at Elwood’s Garage, which had some very cool Hotwheels “stuff”.  The ’51 Spartan Mansion  trailer was showing some good progress.  Richards Hot Rod Shop is a working garage full of lots of cool “works in progress”.  Glenn’s Garage had vintage cars and parts presented in a pristine, museum quality setting.  The day was so nice we took a drive through Belmont Shore then, south on PCH to Yoder’s Sign Shop.  Then on to Steve Davis’ Garage.  Steve had several projects in the works.  The main one is Mickey Thompson’s 1968 Bonneville Streamliner that Steve & Danny Thompson are preparing for another record challenge.  Danny was on-hand to welcome the cruisers.
 

   Now it’s back to PCH and south to Dana Point and back to “Ruby’s” in Laguna Beach for lunch.

Thanks to these garage owners for opening up for us on New Years Day!!

Thanks for the Show!


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Elwood’s Garage, which had some very cool Hotwheels “stuff”.  The ’51 Spartan Mansion trailer was showing some good progress.

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Inside Elwood’s Garage.

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“SRFKART” is the license on Lynn Bird’s Dodge 241 HEMI powered , “Ala Kart” styled ’27 Ford roadster pickup from Torrance, CA.

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Styled after a 1911 Ford, Steve Pennington’s totally custom, small block Ford powered Woodie is as his license says “WAWHOOO”.

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Don Prieto’s slick, Lexus powered Deuce.

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Richards Hot Rod Shop is a working garage full of lots of cool “works in progress”.

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Richard is on the left in the white sweat shirt.

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Larry Wood

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Cars arriving at Richard’s

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Carson Lev finally arrives in his clean ’59 Chevy.

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Mike Cole brought his award winning ’51 Ford convertible.

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Larry Wood in his awesome, big block Nash powered, ’32 Nash.

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A nice, healthy sounding ’57 Chevy leaves Richard’s.

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This little Deuce roadster may have been the first to be Lexus powered.

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Glenn’s Garage was a treat, it had vintage cars and parts presented in a pristine, museum quality setting.

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A row of rare vintage engines were along one wall.

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Several vintage race cars

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Lots of garage art decorated the walls including these great neon signs.

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5 pairs of creatively arranged, very collectable valve covers.

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Some very unique fuel delivery systems displayed on the wall.

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A rarely seen Gilmore Gas pump.

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The cruisers parked outside Glenn’s Garage.

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On the way to the next stop

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 Yoder’s Sign Shop.

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Outside Steve Davis’ Garage

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Inside, Steve had several projects in the works

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The main project is Mickey Thompson’s 1968 Bonneville Streamliner that Steve & Danny Thompson are preparing for another record challenge.  Danny was on-hand to welcome the cruisers.

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Ryan Reed and his Son built this very sharp, small block Chevy powered, ’37 Ford Business Coupe in his Corona, CA. shop at www.reedsridedesigns.com

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