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AVI RESORT/CASINO CAR SHOW

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The AVI Resort is located below Laughlin , Nevada on the Colorado River and the show put on by the River Cruizers Car Club runs from Thursday to Saturday (April 16 to 18) with awards on Sunday morning. We screwed up and did not get there until Friday morning so the show was almost full. The AVI has a KOA RV next to it where we stayed with our truck camper and car trailer.  We took the Kaiser as we had taken the 51 last year and the Starliner is still in the paint shop.  Lot's of nice cars like this 1969 Mustang Fast Back, you can see that the event is right on the river.  Chopped custom Mercury with lot's of chrome.  I think this is a 1948 Anglia drag car.  One of the club members customized Studebaker Golden Hawk with a Paxton blower  Nice 34 with window air.  Restored Nash Metropolitan with the river in the background.   This 40 has a shortened bed and a 4" lengthened cab for moor leg room.    Karen won best 50's car award on S

65 T-BIRD UP DATE

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After I got the back of the car back together I started taking the front apart and the moor I took apart the moor that needed to come apart.  Above the car is completely apart and the scrape and clean starts.  After taking lots of pictures so I could remember how everything goes back together the engine and transmission came out and will be rebuilt.  The engine compartment was a mess and the firewall had been coated with a rubbery coating that would not scrape off like under seal dose so a variety of paint remover's had to be used.  All the brake system components were gummed up and removed ,lines flushed and the booster, master cylinder and rubber lines will be replaced.  The battery box area was rusted out and has been repaired with new hand formed metal. The wiring harness's will be repaired and reused.  Below I had to make my own spring compressor from a piece 5/8 running thread and a heavy metal plate to remove the coil springs. The coil springs will be

GOOD GUYS SHOW SCOTTSDALE

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March 2015 found us at the Good Guys show in Scottsdale AZ. with the Kaiser.  Friday we parked the car at a lower level than the tent (in the back ground) in the polo field then on Saturday parked in the Builders Choice award area in front of the tent.  Karen enjoyed the nice weather and sat with her car answering a lot of questions, the most common what kind of car is that or is that a stock color.  Lee Abrahams brought his 3 Kaiser Darrin's from Tucson AZ  This very nice red Pontiac roadster was parked next to us and won an award.  This 55 Chevy drag car with a 500 CI alcohol engine was with the Kaiser's from Tucson very loud  with a ton of HP.  If your interested in a all original 1926 Nash this one was for sale in the swap meet area for $15,000.00 Did win any thing but had a good time with nice weather and met a lot of nice people.