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Red River Street Rod Association's Rod Run (April 16-18, 2004)

in Bossier City, LA.

This was the first time for me to go to this car show and I'm glad I did. When I arrived Friday night and saw the collection of cars and trucks that were there (pick any car and it was the best example of that car you've ever seen), I knew right away that it was going to be a very nice show! Saturday morning came and more started rolling in and well I could go on and on, but just take a look at these pictures:

1935 Chevy 2-Door Sedan that was fine.

Coooool.

One of the many (and I do mean many) host club cars. '35 Ford 4-Door Sedan. Look closely, where's the trunk lid??

If you are like me, you love these. But I am jealous of how it is easy (almost too easy) for these guys to get to every inch of their motor. Same goes for T-Buckets, look below:

Now, this is different.

You've been there. You go to a car show and the best looking car there always has a crowd around it. I made several passes by this one with my camera in hand trying to get a good shot. I finally got this first one of it while it was being safety inspected. Speaking of the NSRA Safety Inspections, several members of the Louisiana NSRA Safety Team was on hand during the weekend.

This club raises a lot of money for a very good cause, the Percy Johnson Burn Foundation. This car, a special 1931 Ford, was donated to be raffled off at $5 each ticket. The money raised will go to the Burn Foundation and the car will be given away to one lucky winner at the 2005 rod run. The proceeds from this car show went to this worthwhile cause also. This is a special car because it was the last one to be produced as a 1931 car. What happened was they ran out of firewalls and so instead of building more of them, they just stopped with that (1931) production year and started making 1932 cars.

I know someone from Mississippi (Rounman) that would love to have one of these because he used to have one. But this one is red. He told me one time that there's only two colors, red and the rest. UPDATE: I found out that this one is the one that Rounman had!

Here's my 1940 Chevy 2-Door Sedan. I went about 400 miles this weekend on this trip.

Now, here's what a 1940 Chevy 2-Door Sedan looks like before us street rodders get a hold of it. This car is perfect. It's been restored and get this, in it's lifetime, it's logged over 390,000 miles.

Yes, it's a 1947 Studebaker Pickup that's been customized some. Yes, you are seeing a sliding door on this pickup. It's a daily driver.

You want to see a rare car, just look at this 1968 Shelby GT 350 Convertible, 1 of 404 that were produced. Look at the last picture to see where Shelby autographed the dash for the owner of the car.