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uly, the rebirth of America. The month we celebrate the “freedom” of our country and the persona of equality. I recently ventured off to Cuba, as I mentioned last month. The overall trip was amazing. I have never been to a communist country in all my worldly travels. A trip like this makes you think, or it should. I plan in the near future to share our entire experience with you, but for now, when it comes to celebrating the 4th of July, and the struggles for our liberties, I am constantly reminded that all we are provided is the opportunity to pursue happiness, and not guaranteed happiness. I see more and more clearly as my years have slowly climbed in numeric value. It makes sense how our elders are wise, and how they come of their knowledge in world adventures, through war times, through struggles as a country, through loss, and through success. I see how our Kulture has changed and is currently in a state of evolution. I enjoy seeing friends and good acquaintances having children and raising the next generation of what I hope to continue to be the everlasting breed of the true American greaser. But where is it going? Where is America headed? Why? In a day that we have so much opportunity, why do we have such an epidemic in our schools with shootings and kids being so out of touch with reality? Why? In a day that we know the consequence of actions, why are we threatened with the thought of a nuclear war, or even hear that is an option? We know the result of just one nuclear bomb hitting anywhere on earth and the devastation it would cause world wide. We have already lost so much as a nation, from the massacre of Native Americans, to the robbing of natural resources that drive animals into extinction as we destroy their habitats, the selfish bigotry of slavery and the division of our own country, to current day corporate takeovers robbing many the opportunity to pursue life without the control of their bias influence. In a day where freedom should ring, does it? I am still very proud of America, even through all our struggles. I do have the liberty to voice my opinions and share my thoughts openly. I am grateful though, that through the years and life experiences, I have evolved myself and can see all that is within reach with the love and support of family and friends. May all of you celebrate the 4th of July and the entire month knowing we are some of the most fortunate people in the world. Take a little more time to involve yourself in some type of community service or random act of kindness, as I have seen the poorest of poor share what “little” they have with others, even a stray puppy on the streets.
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shines at Amelia Island Concours Phography and article by John Landstrom, Blue Moon Cycles
The Outlaw was Ed Roth’s first experience with fiberglass. He was introduced to the mysterious material at the Huntington Beach Pier where he saw a surfer with a wooden surfboard. The surfboard was covered with a waterproof fiberglass covering. The year was 1957.
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1956 Ford F-100. The pickup, which was noteworthy because it was the first custom truck done by Roth. Originally used as advertising for Roth’s pin-striping business, the truck featured a Packard V-8 engine. Roth completed the look with his signature red flame pinstripes and a hand lettering.
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hose of us who were around at the time remember the 1961 Beatnik Bandit as the outrageous, trend-setting show car that set the course for custom car builders well into the 1960s; a bubble-topped cartoon-on-wheels hand-built by the iconic beatnik himself, Ed “Big Daddy” Roth. The presence of Beatnik Bandit was one of the greatest treats of the recently held Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, where it took its place among a bevy of Roth’s other wacky creations presented in a class of their own. This car was a blast from my pre-adolescent past, and familiar to millions of young gearheads at the time because of Revell’s Beatnik Bandit plastic-model kits we glued together. I was one of those kids, and the Beatnik Bandit is an unforgettable image from those days. I was probably 10 years old and in the peak of my model building phase. I built two Roth cars the Beatnik Bandit and the Mysterian, I also built the Rat Fink kit. Then, it was on to many of the Weirdo kits which were Revel Models knock offs of Ed Roth T-shirt designs but that’s another story. Of all the fabulous cars at Amelia, this oddity, The Beatnik Bandit, was the one I most looked forward to seeing. “It was part of that counter-culture movement that was blooming in the ’60s, and Ed Roth was part of the Beat Generation coming out of the ’50s and continued on from there. The Beatnik Bandit was purchased and restored in the 1970s by Reno casino mogul and epic car collector William Harrah; a portion of his vast accumulation of vehicles became the National Automobile Museum after his death. When I came upon the Bandit at Amelia, it was surrounded by young and old. I thought this car was cool when I was a kid and even today, more than 50 years later, I could see kids still think this car is cool.
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Tweedy Pie: Ed bought this car from Bob Johnston, for $1150, it features a 1923 Model T body. The car was painted with more than 40 coats of lacquer using a vacuum cleaner. The first thing Ed did to the car was to fit it with dual headlights and a set of chromed reversed wheels with Baby Moons. Revell Models produced a 1:25th scale model kit of the car, which sold 3.5 million copies in its first year and has totaled over 11 million to date.
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Amelia Island Concours line up of Ed “Big Daddy Roth” cars
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The Orbitron debuted in September of 1964, the car turned out to be a failure at shows. Ed always felt that the failure of the car was due to the engine being hidden. He always regretted covering the engine. The fiberglass hood was raw inside, so it was kept closed, and the chromed and painted engine was never displayed. He also blamed the Beatles for the “failure” of the Orbitron saying, “the Beatles appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show and all model sales stopped. Guys got guitars instead o’ cars.”
“How fast will it go?” one kid asked as he eyed the gigantic, chrome-plated, supercharged V8 engine sprouting from the front of the car. The Bandit, like Roth’s other custom rods, was not really made to be driven, just shown and admired. And turned into scale-model kits, of course I didn’t know this when I was a kid. “It’s a hot rod and it’s a custom, but it’s a show rod because it’s not really drivable. It’s not functional. The Beatnik and a lot of his creations after that were not so much function as they were form. As an automobile, they were a lot more art. The art of the automobile is highly underrated. The reason Big Daddy built the cars was to sell T-shirts and models. After he showed the car, he’d sell the rights to Revell and they’d build plastic kits, and he went on to the next project.
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Of course, Roth was also famous for the bizarre cartoon image of Rat Fink that was displayed on millions of T-shirts, another oddball marketing success that lives on. Roth’s cars were hand-sculpted using wire mesh and plaster of Paris that was transformed into fiberglass molds to make the bodies. He later destroyed the molds so there could never be another copy made. There’s only one of each of these pieces. Beatnik Bandit’s massive bubble top was an innovative feature, specially made by placing a flat sheet of clear acrylic into a gigantic oven and heating it until it softened, then introducing compressed air to bulge the plastic.
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The Beatnik Bandit was based on a 1950 Oldsmobile chassis that Ed shortened down to 85 inches. The body was built from Fiberglas. The Bubble Top was made of Plexiglass using a pizza oven. Steering, gas, shifting and gears on the car were operated using a chromed center stick. When the bodywork on the car was finished, Ed brought the Beatnik Bandit to Larry Watson for a paint job. Ed didn’t have the money required to paint the car, so he made a deal with Watson that he could take all the time he needed on the car, and that he got paid in Rat Fink T-Shirts. In 1970 Ed sold the car to Jim Bruker for $50. Jim kept the car until 1973 when he traded it to Harrah’s in Reno. Harrah’s restored the car back to its original version in 1985. Revell’s model of the Bandit was the second in a long series of Roth-based kits. It was part of line of popular kits that made up 16 percent of Revell’s total sales for that period. When Mattel decided to make Hot Wheels, the Beatnik Bandit as part of the original 16 castings in the 1968 Hot Wheels line.
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The beauty of this particular restoration is that Mr. Harrah bought this car from the Movieland Museum collection back in the ’70s, brought it back to Reno, stripped it all down. When they were all finished with the cars – they were doing the Outlaw at the same time – they flew Ed out from Utah, and this is original Ed Roth striping on this automobile. It’s a re-creation by the original artist. I had the pleasure of meeting Ed “Big daddy” twice in my life. In 1971 I built a Honda CB750 chopper and displayed it at Chicago’s International Amphitheater Chopper show. Evel Knievel was also there, jumping twice daily, but that’s yet another story. Ed Roth had a T-shirt booth right next to my angel hair and mirrors chopper display. He was selling tons of shirts, Rat Fink hats, and German Army plastic helmets which he had stacked to the rafters. He told me “Hey kid, if I bring 20 helmets I will sell 10 but if I bring 500 helmets they will sell like crazy because everyone will see how popular they are.” I couldn’t believe the great “Big Daddy” even talked to me, let alone confided to me his business strategy. Some years
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One day Revell Model Company called Ed and asked if they could make and sell a model kit of the Outlaw. Ed was thrilled and agreed on the offer. When Revell started making it they told him that his name needed a boost for the kits. Ed had always been called “Big Ed” in high school. Revell suggested that he should go with the “Dutch” movement and call himself something like “Spider” or “Roach”. That didn’t appeal to Ed. At about the same time there was a hippy movement in Los Angeles where guys let their beards grow and recite poetry at these coffee houses. The head stud muffins for these places were dubbed “Big Daddy”. Revell decided to replace “Big Ed” with “Big Daddy”. Ed figured that since he had 5 kids at home and since he was big, the name fit good. He agreed on the name, and both parts were happy. later I happened to be at Knott’s Berry Farm, a Western theme amusement park in Southern California, and there was Ed Roth painting signs for the park in a small work shed in the back lot. I recognized him but I didn’t say hi. I guess I just wanted to remember him as “Big Daddy,” the coolest car builder and trend setter of the 60’s, not just a sign painter in a work shed.
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D.O.B.: July 5th Hometown: Springfield, MO Single or Married: Married Favorite Color: Green Hobbies: Yoga Education: Bachelors degree Occupation: Dental Hygienist Pets: One Pit Bull Favorite Food: Mexican Favorite place to eat out: Cooking at home Favorite Genre of Music: Anything Favorite Band: Murder by Death Favorite Movie: Anything in the horror genre Favorite Hangout: I am really a homebody Favorite Drink: Water Turn-Ons: Dark Hair, Tattoos, Education Turn-Offs: Being unkind Can you change your own oil? My Dad wouldnt have it any other way, however my husband does it now
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The Preamble to The Bill of Rights Congress of the United States begun and held at the City of New-York, on Wednesday the fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine. THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best ensure the beneficent ends of its institution. RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, two thirds of both Houses concurring, that the following Articles be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as amendments to the Constitution of the United States, all, or any of which Articles, when ratified by three fourths of the said Legislatures, to be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the said Constitution; viz. ARTICLES in addition to, and Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, proposed by Congress, and ratified by the Legislatures of the several States, pursuant to the fifth Article of the original Constitution. Note: The following text is a transcription of the first ten amendments to the Constitution in their original form. These amendments were ratified December 15, 1791, and form what is known as the "Bill of Rights." Source: The United States of America National Archives
Amendment II A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. As we embark as a United States of America into the celebration of our nation on July 4th, it is important that we revisit some critical points in our history. All too often, it is voiced to take away a valued and sacred right of the American people, "the Right to Bear Arms." Now, the argument is strong on implementing and re-enforcing laws already in place for gun regulation, not control. But, as we make our argument, remember that our elected officials are using the most precious children as "pawns" in their game of chess. Let me first say that I am a gun bearing American and exercise my right to protect my property, myself, and my family. I will add to it that I am not a person with a basement stored of 50+ firearms, or enough ammo to take on an army. Now that said, I have a choice selection of firearms specifically designed for the purpose of protecting one's home. I do not hunt, nor am I qualified to handle any military grade form of weaponry. I do believe at times that I am under prepared and should stock up more on ammo, but these are for beliefs that our age of safety from foreign invasion are questionable, but not to any level of extremism. I have owned and carried a fire arm for decades as I have traveled nationwide in the entertainment and hospitality industry. You never know what can happen literally hundreds of miles in the middle of nowhere. I am more comfortable being prepared than for that moment I am hopeless. I preempt the entire discussion to hopefully get across that I am middle of the road when it comes to our "rights to bear arms." But the next few statements call out all sides, whether right or left, because at the end of the day, we are supposed to be a civilized nation of men and women. It
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is exhausting turning on the TV and continuously hearing about or seeing this overly repeated narrative on school shootings in America. How can any nation involve children in war, let alone look the other way when we clearly see an epidemic in our country when it comes to school shootings. Where do the children of today have the clear disconnect between the finality of their decisions when it comes to these mass shootings? It is also exhausting when you hear all of these tragedies being turned into political ammunition and examples of their parties purpose, instead of dealing with facts. Fact number one, people kill people, not the gun. I agree and know, the number one purpose of a gun is to "kill", but it is the person behind the trigger that controls the integrity of that purpose. There is no gun or personal protective gear that was created for the sole purpose of careless behavior. My "better half" is a school teacher. We have walked away from the table from many discussions surrounding the very topic of how do we keep our schools safe, and better educate our children. Fortunately, she has been hired and works in a private school where the school has made the choice to hire two police officers to be on campus at all times. Now, the initial hiring was by no means a preventive measure in regards to school shootings. The officers have been on staff for years prior to this nation's outbreak on school shootings. They handle daily tasks of traffic control. They handle parking lot accidents, like fender benders. They deter trouble like minor theft or pandering. They are in place to protect the children from potential outside threats of strangers. Now, in today's routine, this does include the potential of school shootings. Remember when we use to do fire drills, or hurricane drills, if you are from Florida like me. Now we have to run active shooter drills. Seriously? What have we come to? Are we not smarter than this? I think we are.
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We no longer deal with trouble, but pass it along without any resolve, only allowing it to manifest and grow. Why? Because everyone has feelings or "rights." You always hear after the fact, "I knew something was wrong with that person." So why didn't you do anything? When you take consequence out of a scenario, you are allowing anyone to do anything without any recourse. We see it time and time again. History does repeat itself. Respect for elders has diminished. Manners of our youth are almost non-existent. General common sense of right from wrong cannot be enforced because we now debate the feelings of the person who is in trouble. Hell, there are people out there now that say you have to ask your baby for permission to touch them to change their diapers. Are we f@cking serious? Cause and affect. It is simple. You touch something hot, you get burned. Cause and affect. If you do something wrong, you get in trouble. Cause and affect. So, being this "great nation" why do we not expect the highest standards out of ourselves and raise our children with the same level of respect we were taught while growing up? I understand the day is long gone from when a principal could spank our children, but we as parents shouldn't feel threatened to discipline our own children when required. Cause and affect. Maybe if they understood the effects of their potential actions, most of these instances would never have happened. I have personally gone through two active shooter situations at two different schools in two very different instances. The first one, I lived in Denver, Colorado, and was one to two blocks away from the Columbine shootings during the incident. First off, I noticed police cars coming in from all directions. You knew something major was occurring. You knew it was something bigger than an accident or routine robbery. When I ducked into a retail shop in the area, as all access roads were at the moment being controlled, it was completely silent and all eyes were on one tv. We all stood there watching in complete shock. It was one of the worst feelings I can think of, very similar to 911. There was a sense of uncontrolled hopelessness. The rest of the day was spent watching the news and reflecting once again where we are as people in today's society. There is no way that Columbine would have been prevented. Yes, it might not have happened at the actual school itself, but Eric Harris was destined to become a mass shooter. Maybe if older and later in life, other obstacles would have interfered causing a different outcome, but Eric Harris created this destiny to fulfill this insane plan, and Dylan Klebold was destined to be a follower throughout his whole life. We all see these actions of any of these shooters and know exactly the created excuses we make, but have done virtually nothing to make an impact since 1999.
The second incident involved a teacher at a school. The teacher was going through serious depression and some questionable behavior between students (nothing sexual). The school was at least involved and aware. The school had to terminate the teacher, but they were extremely supportive offering the teacher professional help and assistance. But, something created a trigger on that day, and the warning signs caused an alarm. The school did have a PI on retainer and immediately contacted the investigator to trail the teacher. Later that day, the teacher was found entering a gun retail location and purchasing a firearm. The school went on immediate lock-down. As the teacher proceeded back in the direction of the school, he was approached and detained by local officials. Now, a few things occurred correctly. The school was involved and took immediate action to protect the students and faculty. They handled the potential incident knowing that there could be lawful actions against them. The teacher was found to have purchased the gun to go home and suspected to kill himself. He did live in the area where the school is located, and the school did what was proper in this instance. The teacher today is still alive and receiving much needed supported for severe depression. Now, can you imagine how I felt when receiving that call and the sense of hopelessness? I immediately got closer in proximity to the school and turned on the news to listen and relay anything being communicated. What turned into only about a one hour ordeal seemed to take an eternity. All I could think is these children are in a room with no exit but one door in their classrooms. Thoughts and emotions still come to mind when you think about all possible outcomes. So again, were any of these incidents the gun or the person? Where do we start? Where do we draw the line? Well, to start, we don't take away our rights. That is never the answer. What we need to do is invest more into our children at all costs. We need to protect them, but we need to educate them too. We need to go back to holding people accountable, along with education and respect. This is a simple choice to make, but we have to toss aside all political lines to get to the answer and a resolution that is a best made solution for most situations. We can not stop crazy or hate. That is impossible. But we can create a barrier of protection that at least our children are again safe. We will be posting this article at Greaseinc.net/ and encourage your dialogue in discussing one of our nation's worst epidemics. We are curious how you feel and see it. There is not one perfect solution to a simple answer, but there are ways we are may play a stronger role in interacting with our kids on a daily basis...
We can not stop crazy or hate. That is impossible. But we can create a barrier of protection that at least our children are again safe.
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by Randyl Bishop, serving proudly in the U.S. Army Reserves in Grafenwoehr, Germany
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ometimes Soldiers come back from war and they are missing their hands and other parts.” My five-year old little girl matter-of-factly imparts to me. She is holding one of her Monster High girl dolls, and sure enough, one of the hands is absent. Not knowing what else to do, I tell her that’s right- that sometimes when Soldiers come back from war they are missing limbs, have trouble sleeping with terrible nightmares, or have trouble fitting back into a country that may not understand their sacrifice or perspective very well.
Several months before, at the Joelanta Toy Convention, her brother, my son, had been given an old G.I. Joe action figure missing its arm. To make him feel better about the gift, we jokingly told him that he must have lost it in the war. Now, his little sister still has concerns. “Have you been in war, Daddy?” she asks. I tell her yes, yes I have. I was deployed once. I don’t go into details, not because they are terribly graphic for someone so young, or because I am trying to spare myself the agony of reliving something especially painful, or even out of a false sense of misplaced patriotic modesty, but because it was a long time ago, and the details are, for me, pretty boring and not great conversation fodder for someone who’s favorite version of Wonder Woman is still Lynda Carter’s. I watched a third world country slowly improve from the moment we arrived to the moment we left, mostly from relative safety behind secure close-captioned television screens and maps. This is hard to put into words a five year old can understand, but I do my best to assuage her latent fears. I tell her I was lucky. So lucky, because I have all of my limbs and sleep contentedly most nights, when I’m not obsessing about some personal creative project that is, like my comic book The Hawk of New York. I’m lucky to have those distractions. I’m also lucky to have only deployed once in support of our nation’s longest war, when many of my peers have deployed numerous times, my older brother, for instance. Many of those peers
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have sacrificed so much more than me. I’m fortunate to have lost only one good friend to the illiterate lunatic barbarians who threaten everything we hold decent. I’m lucky, because when I got back home from that deployment a decade ago, my fellow Americans welcomed me back with smiles and gratitude for the most part, even if some of it was manufactured or misplaced. They weren’t throwing rocks at me and chanting “baby killer” the way they did to the Vietnam generation. I still remember so fondly when I returned to my home station in Germany how wonderful the road and land near my apartment looked glistening with the purest crisp snow. It was like stepping into a Christmas greeting card after falling into a giant litter box that had been left in an oven. And I am lucky to have my daughter, my son, my wife, and the rest of my family, friends, and countrymen to be home for. We all are. We are so lucky to have each other as neighbors. Even the Soldiers that did sacrifice their limbs or their minds for the good of this global experiment called freedom are lucky, because they help make it work, even if they don’t know how they did or what it was all for. I am grateful to them, and whatever miniscule claim I might have to their kindred spirit. We are so lucky we are a literate nation. We are lucky to be living in an age when capitalism has a decent shot at maturing into the more perfect democratic capitalism, and when this spirit of entrepreneurship is so clearly crushing the bullying attitude of socialism. We are all so damned lucky because any question anyone
has about anything can be sought out through pursuing education or direct experience. Further, any shortcoming our nation has can be addressed peaceably with one another. And this is all because we are a free nation. Anyone who still chooses to live on in ignorance and violence with this freedom readily available? I can’t say I have any respect for those people. I hope, dear fellow American reader, that you forgive my tragic tone at this time of celebration; as I write this, it’s closer to Memorial Day than the Independence Day when it might see print. The more I travel, the more I realize that our country, for all its flaws and imperfections, still shines like the Statue of Liberty’s torch to the rest of the world. Our Founding Fathers took the hardest lessons learned from nations of antiquity, borrowed the architecture of the greatest-ever empire on record for our capitol’s buildings, and trusted God to help us further the cause of humanity. It’s an awe-inspiring endeavor, and one that will frequently require the blood of patriots. I can think of no greater undertaking than this moral duty. “Freedom is not free” may now be a just an old catch phrase to some since its origin as an inscription in granite at the Korean War memorial. Catch phrase, or not, it really is true this freedom comes at a cost. It is up to you to take this freedom and make the most of it. Unsurprisingly, the whole world is watching you. The whole world has its myriad opinions on the subject, and the reality is this opinion may or may not mesh with yours. So, I invite you to convince them all. Convince them with your living example of freedom. Convince them with your life, with your car, with your ride, with your tats, or with your fucks-notgiven attitude and look out for each other. This Independence Day, take to the stage and shout your voice to this attentive world, light a sparkler, shoot a gun, grill a burger, ride a bike, read a comic book, rock and roll, but above all, enjoy your freedom. God bless you all, and God bless America.
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Wheels Events Calendar Great American Biker Bash Blairsville, GA Time: July 13, 2018 to July 15, 2018 Location: The Copperhead Lodge Street: 171 Copperhead Parkway City/Town: Blairsville, GA Website: www.copperheadlodge.com Phone: michelle@copperheadlodge.com; 706-835-7433 Event Type: Motorcycle Bash, Festival Organized By: The Copperhead Lodge
Cruise-In at The Varsity Gwinnett Norcross, GA Time: July 15, 2018 from 4pm to 7pm Location: The Varsity Gwinnett
Annual 4th of July Car Show
Street: 6045 Dawson Blvd
Dahlonega, GA Time: July 4, 2018 from 10am to 5pm Location: Lumpkin County’s Chestatee Regional Library on E. Main St. Street: Lumpkin County Library Complex City/Town: Dahlonega, Georgia 30533 Website: www.dahlonegacarclub.com Phone: 770 843-6477 Event Type: Cool Mountain Car Show Organized By: Tully Johnstone
City/Town: Norcross, GA 30093
Night Drag Racing & Show-N-Shine Car Show
Time: July 13 -14, 2018
Hampton, GA Time: July 4, 13, 20 & 27, 2018 from 5pm to 9pm Location: Atlanta Motor Speedway Street: Tara Blvd. City/Town: Hampton, GA Website: www.atlantamotorspeedway.com Phone: (770) 946-3954 Event Type: car, show Organized By: Atlanta Motor Speedway
Location: Maggie Valley Festival Grounds
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Website: www.GeorgiaCoolCruisers.org Phone: 404-732-6842 Event Type: Free Cruise-in, Cars & Bikes, Charity Organized By: Georgia Cool Cruisers
Maggie Valley Swap Meet/Hot Rods Maggie Valley, NC
Street: 3374 Soco Road City/Town: Maggie Valley, NC Website: www.surfboardpromotion.com Phone: 423-608-4519 Event Type: Swap Meet, Car & Bike Corral, Hot Rod Show Organized By: Rodney Buckner
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Wheels Events Calendar S. Cruisers Riding Club GA State Rally
Monthly Dixie Cruisers Cruise-In
Commerce, GA
Winder, GA
Time: July 19, 2018 to July 22, 2018
Time: July 28, 2018 from 5pm to 8pm
Location: Host Hotels
Location: Winder Corners Center Parking Lot @ Los Vaqueros
Street: I-85 exit 149)
Mexican Restaurant
City/Town: Commerce, GA
Street: 17 Monroe Hwy
Website: www.scrcga.com
City/Town: Winder, GA
Phone: GAStateSCRC@gmail.com
Website: www.losvaquerosmexrest.com
Event Type: Bike Cruise, Rally, Show Organized By: GA State SCRC
Cool Cars and Courage Car Show Tucker, GA Time: July 21, 2018 from 11am to 3pm Location: The Greater Good BBQ Street: 4431 Hugh Howell Road City/Town: Tucker, GA 30084 Website: www.GeorgiaCoolCruisers.org Phone: 404-732-6842 Event Type: Car Show, Charity Fundraiser Organized By: Rick Ellis
Phone: 404-414-4060 Event Type: Cruise-In, Fundraiser Organized By: Dixie Cruisers
Dubai in Atlanta Car & Bike Show Marietta, GA Time: July 29, 2018 from 10am to 4pm Location: Dave and Buster’s Street: 2215 D and B Dr SE City/Town: Marietta, Georgia 30067 Website: www.carbonturboent.com Phone: #DubaiInAtlanta, Ramone 404-513-5113 Event Type: Car & Motorcycle Show Organized By: Carbon Turbo Entertainment
TWT – Two Wheel Thursday Bike Night Athens, GA Time: July 26, 2018 from 6pm to 9pm Location: Cycle World of Athens Street: 4225 Atlanta Hwy City/Town: Athens, GA Website: www.cycleworldathens.com Phone: (800) 785-1292 Event Type: Bike Night, Cruise In Organized By: Cycle World of Athens
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