Billetproof 2009 – 2nd Annual Washington Washout
July 9, 2009 by Hechtspeed · 2 Comments
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The 2nd Annual Billetproof Washington Washout was even more impressive than last year. MyRideisMe.com member Michael Nantz gives us the scoop and pictures of his favorite rides:
“There were spectators hovering around every car. The weather was some of the best you could hope for at any car show and there were some big vendors this year; the guys from SoCal Speed Shop in Sacramento made the trek up to Washington and were busy in their booth all day.
For the first day of this 2 day car show there were 650+ cars of all styles. There was the “standard” rat rods (which is a term I can’t stand but will say it anyway) to the traditional rods to some very rare and old customs.
At the show on day 1 the first car I came across was the 1930 Model A from Top Ten Hot Rods which was my favorite car of the show with its 1957 392 Hemi with Enderle fuel injection force fed by matching, twin 1957 McCulloch superchargers modified to run without clutches to feed about 20lbs of boost, EACH… to the 7:1 Hemi. All that runs through a Chrysler 4 speed. When they fired this car up it brought back memories of being at the Fremont Drag Strip. See our feature story of this Hot rod from the LA Roadster Show.
Throughout the rest of the day I took over 700 pictures and spoke with many of the good people at the show. Everyone I spoke to was having a great time and were glad they made it to the show.
Saturday night kicked off the downtown Chehalis Cruise Nigh. What a great turn out with everyone cruising main street. There was also a huge gathering at the Olympic Club which contains a vintage movie theater.
Day 2 of the show was a little bit smaller as this was the first year of the 2 day show. The final count I heard was around 300 cars which is still a great showing.
In the end I had a great time at the 2nd annual Billetproof Show in Washington and I highly recommend it to everyone. Next year look for a burnout contest on Sunday in a special area so that all can watch.”
Michael Nantz
This is what MyRideisMe.com is all about. Readers and members sharing their passion, whether its your own hot rod build project or your experience at a local car show. Michael gets it!!! Follow his lead and let us know what you thought of Billetproof in Washington and at your local cruise! Leave a comment of shoot us an email.
Hechtspeed
Pictures from Billetproof 2007
September 18, 2007 by pikesan · Leave a Comment
2007 Billetproof Rocked! Here’s the pictures we have. We still have about 350 to add including a bunch of bikes. If you like what you see, please join! MyRideisMe is like a great party at 8:30 PM… the band’s setting up people are on the way… have a beer and enjoy until the music starts!
Click HERE to see all the car pictures.
Click HERE to see all the bike pictures.
Pushing the Hot Rod Envelope
September 17, 2007 by pikesan · 5 Comments
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Imagine yourself at a traditional hot rod show like Billetproof, enjoying Antioch California’s cool morning breeze when you smell diesel fumes. Billetproof isn’t the kind of show where you can trailer your baby in, so something’s not right. Then you hear the whine of a giant turbo just as this beast rounds the corner:
Behold the 1950 Peterbilt owned by Michael Leeds. The name for this Hot Rod Semi is up in the air, but “Sneaky Pete” is the front runner. Michael comfortably cruised about 100 miles from Santa Cruz, CA thanks to the inline 6 Cummins turbo-diesel hooked to a 12 speed automatic transmission spinning highway friendly 2.92 gears. Michael guesses 12 to 20 mpg but driving range is no problem since he’s hauling 105 gallons in the polished aluminum fuel tank out back. This baby’s read to travel, even weighing in at about 7000 lbs.
Michael’s no stranger to giant scale projects. Ever heard of Blastolene? Michael designed Blastolene which was later purchased by legendary car collector Jay Leno. Blastolene’s got an M47 Patton Tank engine that’s 1800 cu.in. of aluminum, air cooled, overhead cammed badness making 1200 horsepower with 1500 ft.lbs of torque.
For Sneaky Pete, Michael’s concept was handed to Randy Grubb (remember the semi-truck chopper from Monster Garage?) who took over the build chores and had it on the road in 1 ½ years. The Peterbilt’s aluminum cab was chopped a shocking 11 inches to give it that nasty Bonneville Salt Flat competition coupe look. Up front, a custom made Posie’s Super SlideTM spring mounts a smoothed front axle from an International garbage truck! All that’s held in place using hairpins that were formed from 1/4” DOM tubing. Yea, QUARTER INCH!
What’s next? Michael told me he’s filming a pilot TV show called “Green Machines”. He’s trying to bring radical rides like Blastolene and Sneaky Pete into the mainstream. I hope he makes it because from the moment Michael pulled in, he was surrounded by awestruck spectators trying to figure out, “What the hell is that?” Thanks for pushing the Hot Rod envelope and answering, even if just for today, the age old question of, “What will they think of next?”
Here’s the link to all the pictures I took of this truck.
Billetproof Pinup
See all of the My Ride is Me pictures from the show HERE
MyRideisMe. com will attend the 2007 Billetproof show in Antioch, CA next weekend, September 15th. I can’t wait for the show. This is the first time MyRideisMe.com will be properly represented at a show. Here’s what we’re handing out. I hope you enjoy it! I sure do!
It’s been my pleasure meeting Dirk Behlau, the photographer and Zoe Scarlett, the beautiful pinup model. They both have cool websites and myspace pages, check them out!
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