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July 21, 2010

40th Annual Rod Festival offers new venue, features By Kate Frasure Longmont Times-Call

With a new locale and buffed up additions, the ColoRODans 40th Annual Rod Festival is the place to be this weekend. Planned for July 23 to 25, the event will commemorate all the years of street rodding with many original members in attendance. Registration for Friday and Saturday events will be at the Marriott Courtyard Hotel, 1410 Dry Creek Drive in Longmont, from 2 to 6 p.m. on Friday and from 11 to 6 p.m. on Saturday. The weekend of festivities kicks off on Friday evening with a street concert featuring Pure Prairie League at 5 p.m. at the corner of Fourth Avenue and Main Street.

Saturday’s events will include a poker run, where participants can draw a card at various stops within Longmont. The Poker Run starts at the Marriott Courtyard at 2 p.m. At the end of the run, the individual with the best poker hand will receive a prize. Participants will also be able to “cruise” down Main Street from 2 to 11 p.m. in an effort to revive the memories of classic car enthusiasts. Registration for the Show-N-Shine car show will begin at 8 a.m. on Sunday at its new location at Roosevelt Park, between Longs Peak and Eighth avenues, one block west of Main Street. Pre-registered cars will be able to get into the park quicker. The day’s festivities will include Roller Dolls, special historical street rod and race car display, Norm Grabowski “Father of the T,” Mart Ford’s pinstripping

demonstration, model engine display and demonstration, NSRA safety inspections, door prizes for participants, food vendors available, kids face painting, and kiddie pool and playground. Grabowski, hot rod builder and actor, will make an appearance both Saturday and Sunday. Grabowski is best known for his creation of the Tbucket, a Model A pickup truck bed attached to a 1923 Model T body. The car, in addition to being featured in various magazines, is best known as the “Kookie Car,” driven by Edd Byrnes character in “77 Sunset Strip.” “This event is because we like cars and people,” says Bob Bennett, ColoRODans member and club secretary. “We also hope to bring business to Longmont and help in our support of Mountain States Children’s Home.”

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Local artist combines his love of paint and cars By Summer Stair Longmont Times-Call

It was a picture of Ed “Big Daddy” Roth airbrushing pictures on T-shirts at a car show that got 14-year-old Longmont resident Mart Ford thinking about drawing. “It just turned me loose and I thought I can

do that.” When his aunt bought him an airbrush for his birthday, he got started learning and perfecting his drawings with his new tool. “I got real good, real quick,” he says. “Then I started putting stuff on peoples shoes and T-shirts.” It was the 1960s and hot rods were all the rage. In California, George Barris, Ed Roth and Von Dutch were making a name for themselves and out of that came the automotive custom world, Ford says. “Hot rodding was raw and drag racing was big.” By the time Ford was 16, no one else was doing the type of airbrushing he was doing. That’s when he joined the Highwaymen, which eventually evolved into the ColoRODans, and started going to car shows where he would sit out front and paint art on Tshirts and sweatshirts. “I’m no mechanic, I just like to draw and I like cars,” he says. While going to the shows and putting art on items for people was fun, after getting married Ford knew he was going to have to figure out a life that didn’t involve so much traveling and was a little more secure. However, before he left the airbrushing world, he

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ran into a man at an Omaha car show who did pinstriping. The two decided to trade their talents – Ford showed him that art of the airbrush and in return he learned how to pick up a paint brush and take it to a car. Ford came back to Longmont and piddled on the side with his pinstriping, perfecting his art and starting to make a name for himself. “There was no pinstriping or my style of cartooning on cars,” he says. Eventually, along with his pinstriping, Ford took his airbrushing talents to metal and freehanded an eagle on the hood of a

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Miniature model engines spark interest among local hobbyists By Kristi Ritter Longmont Times-Call

Detail oriented is just one way to describe Ron Bement and Ramon Hoagland. Between the two of them, they’ve built at least a dozen miniature model engines, constructing them from scratch, and all accurate to the minute details of the originals. Retired from IBM, Longmont resident Hoagland was a model maker for his former employer. So when business slowed a bit about 12 years ago, he found the plans to build his first hit and miss engine in 1998. Hit and miss engines were mainly used on the farm and varied in a 5 to 40 horsepower engine. Although he now claims it was just a “terrible thing,” that first engine gave him the itch to keep building others. Hoagland bought the plans for several model engines, in which he’s built them all from scratch based on the actual engines they portray. For instance, a double acting engine he built is modeled off the original that is about 40 to 50 feet long. His model runs off two pistons, two spark plugs, oil and gas for fuel. All the models use some type of fuel to run on, whether it’s gas, pellets, catalane, acetone, aviation fuel or compressed air. And no matter what the fuel, they all sound unique once they’re started up. Visitors to the 40th annual ColoRODans Rod Festival this weekend will be able to hear and see these model engines first hand. They’re always a crowd favorite, and Hoagland and Bement will both be there to show off their work. “The most fun I’ve ever had is making these models and getting them to run,” Hoagland says. But getting them built and running can be time consuming, as he can easily spend upwards of six months tinkering with the models to get them just right. Broomfield resident Bement spent four years and 4,000 hours machining every piece out of solid aluminum stock on the four-cylinder Offenhauser racing engine he completed in 2004 – the first he ever built. “This engine is the only one on the Earth that is fuel injected,” he says. The Offenhauser was featured in the Rodders Journal. As a retired tool maker from IBM and a longtime drag-racing fan, model-making is a big hobby for Bement. Starting at age 14, the 1946 Mini Ardun Flathead engine caught his attention. “I wanted this engine so bad I could taste it.” The Ardun Flathead was the second engine he built, taking almost five years to build when he completed it last year. It’s the only one on Earth he knows of, and in April of this year, the Ardun engine was featured in Model Engine Builder magazine, a quarterly magazine highlighting the hobby of model building. Now Bement is rebuilding a 1938 Cadillac Lasalle one-third scale engine, which he claims needs some work to make things “just right.” “Most people don’t know these engines exist, so they’re very intrigued,” he says. Ramon Hoagland, of R & R Machining, shows off miniature model engines he built. (Paul Litman/Times-Call)

Check these engines out at the ColoRODans Rod Festival this weekend at Roosevelt Park. You can also view a couple YouTube videos of Bement’s engines by searching for his name on any search engine.

Ron Bemet of Broomfield built the Ardun Flathead miniature engine more than five years. It’s the only one on Earth he knows of. (Paul Litman/ Times-Call)

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Cidny McCreery and her father, Hugh, are rebuilding a four-door 1966 Nova for Cidny to drive. Ever since she picked up her first tool, Cidny has enjoyed working with her dad on cars. (Paul Litman/ Times-Call)

Father teaches his daughter his love for cars By Kristi Ritter Longmont Times-Call

Cidny McCreery was in junior high when she first stuck her head under the hood of an old Camaro her dad, Hugh, was restoring. Attentive to showing her the ropes, Cidny dove in to learn all she could. “She actually turns a wrench a lot, and with smaller hands she can get into places I can’t,” Hugh says, adding that his daughter enjoys working on the cars and isn’t afraid to get a little dirty. That first experience working with cars has continued with her. As a recent high school graduate, this Longmont native has worked for years next to her dad in the garage. “I’m lucky. Many kids in their teens tend to drift off from their parents,” Hugh says. “Working on cars has kept a bond between us that not everyone has.” Working on cars has also given Cidny the skills and confidence to make her strong in school and in life. With experience on several different cars, Cidny now has her sights on one car – a four-door 1966 Nova that

she bought on eBay a few years back. Found on a farm in Montana, Cidny and Hugh acquired the unique find for only $700, with its four doors and V-8 283 four-barrel engine. Often, Nova’s are only two-doors. With a pretty clean body minus some rust spots that will sand out, the car is in decent shape given its age. They’ve already replaced the tires and rebuilt the carburetor for about a $1,000 investment, and next plan to start working on other engine components, including the transmission. In the meantime, the car does run. Cidny’s goal is to fully restore the car to its original state, complete with the Kentucky blue color, spruced up interior and tuned-up engine that will purr down the

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highway. The ColoRODans club members have been supportive of Cidny’s dreams of restoring her car. After the club’s show three years ago, both Hugh and Cidny joined the club and have been grateful for the ideas, support and occasional car pieces they’ve acquired from fellow club members. While the parts are relatively inexpensive and super available, Cidny says she’s got to have money first to continue working on the car. With a part-time job and plans to start college this fall at Front Range Community College, her goal is to have the car complete in a couple of years.

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Building Watson Roadster fulfills dream for Roberts Longmont Times-Call

Today’s race cars might be faster and sleeker, but they don’t compare to the beauty of the classic race cars of the 1950s and ’60s. These hand built machines aren’t as fast as today’s racers, but the looks of these speedsters from yesteryear can never be matched. Skip Roberts is one of those men that have always admired the early Indy machines. Ever since he was 14 years old, when he bought a car being used as a chicken coop for $15, he was learning how to rebuild race cars from scratch. He rebuilt that car, got it into racing shape and raced it until he was 21 years old when he sold it for $2,000 to pay for a down payment on his first house in 1967. Throughout the years, Roberts has enjoyed racing many other items, including Porsches and drag-racing boats, and he pilots his own aerobatics Steen Skybolt airplane. He raced his own Porsche for two years. Then he started driving and working for other car owners. He achieved a number of successes throughout his years as a race-car driver. Paul Newman co-drove one of his cars at Watkins Glen, N.Y., under the team’s ownership of Bob Hagestad. In 1975 and ’76, his race team finished fourth overall in the Daytona 24-hour race, now called the Rolax 24 hour. And he, along with all the other members of the team, took a firstplace finish in the 1975 Sebring 12-hour race. When he isn’t racing automobiles, Roberts can be found building them from scratch. “I’m a creative guy, and I like to build things,” Roberts says. “And I’ve always been a tinkerer, and I still am today.” He humbly calls himself a “tinkerer,” but his creations go far past that title. Now standing in his 3,000-square-foot garage are recreations of some of the most beautiful and famous cars that have mesmerized the world for more than half a century. Besides the Steen Skybolt airplane he built from scratch that he also performs aerobatics in, Roberts restored a 1969 Don Edmunds midget, a 1965 Sammy Swindell sprint car that Swindell drove in the 1981 World of Outlaws championship in 1981, and, most notably, an exact replica of the 1961 candy purple Denver Chicago Trucking special. Of the 22 Roadsters that A.J.

Skip Roberts, of Berthoud, built a 1957 Watson Roadster replica. Roberts is a retired Denver firefighter who not only builds, but also races vintage cars. (Paul Litman/Times-Call)

Watson built, this No. 62 Roadster was the lightest ever built and often surmised as Watson’s favorite car. Roberts has built every piece of this Watson Roadster from scratch, beginning with the welding of a jig that he used in order to build the car’s parts. “It started with nothing more than some drawings by A.J. Watson and a collection of photographs,” Roberts says. When he found himself having difficulties interpreting the rough blueprints, he called on the famed Watson himself. “He’s a very intelligent guy,” Roberts says of Watson. “His memory astounded me. He was able to recall right off the top of his head the exact measurements I needed.”

It took Roberts 11 months to build the replica. The only part of the Watson Roadster that is not an exact duplicate is the engine. The original Meyer-Drake Offenhauser engine would have cost Roberts a hefty amount. So, instead, he decided to improvise and built the car with a less expensive engine. Besides the engine, every other part of the Roadster – the chassis, the frame, the body, the tires and every nut and bolt that makes up the stunning machine – is an exact replica of the esteemed Watson Roadster. After the car was completed, it sat on stands for an additional 12 months waiting for the wheels to be cast from magnesium and the tires to be manufactured. Before he built vintage race cars, Roberts

had a long career as a firefighter, with the last 10 of those years as a division chief in Denver. He used his love of race cars to help raise more than $1.5 million for the Children’s Hospital burn unit through his 18year affiliation with the Hot Times Kool Cars campaign, the largest single-day car show in Colorado. When he wasn’t working as a firefighter, he spent his time running his two other businesses, a sign-painting company and a Porsche-restoration shop. But molding these iconic automobiles from raw metal and bit parts rewards their maker like nothing else. Roberts’ Watson Roadster will be one of the many automobiles featured in the ColoRODans Show-N-Shine Festival this Sunday.

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Rebuilding the aluminum frame was also a big challenge for Shell. He wanted the frame to be built just like it was in California by Race Car Specialties, so he asked Bryce Wollbrink of Bryce’s Street Rods in Erie to help him. After accumulating all the parts and rebuilding the frame, Shell painted it and reassembled it. Satisfied with his work, he says, “It’s just like the day it was raced in 1968.” Shell likes to take the dragster to shows such as the Hot Rod Reunion in Bakersfield, Calif., and some in Kentucky. Although Shell has not found another dragster to rebuild since, he would take on the task again if he came across the opportunity.

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Fraser fulfills longtime dream By Summer Stair Longmont Times-Call

Pat Frasure, a ColoRODans club member, refurbished this 1928 Roadster Fiberglas replica. (Paul Litman/Times-Call)

There was something special about the Model A 1928 Roadster that caught Pat Fraser’s eye at a young age. The specific curve of the reveal line running along the front of the doors and the way the body narrowed made the shape appealing. So it was no surprise that 50 years after falling in love with this car, Fraser sought it out. It wasn’t until after he retired 10 years ago that Fraser started thinking about refurbishing this particular car. As a passion of his for some time, Frasure discovered a shop in Illinois where he might be able to get started with parts. With a road trip due to his son in Nashville, Frasure’s timing was perfect as he found the body and frame. That was seven years ago. Today, after years of searching for the perfect parts, the Fiberglas reproduction 1928 Roadster Model A looks complete. Fraser still needs to finish the interior of the trunk and hopes to put in a better gas tank. While designing the car, he took great pains in ensuring it was just what he wanted and remembered as a kid. He made sure everything was just right from rebuilding the engine and trunk to picking out the exact color, amethyst grey with red accents along the bottom. Fraser also added some new technology making the suspension new school with better brakes than it would

“I’ve had a lot of fun with it, but there are a lot of fun cars out there.” – Pat Frasure on possibly selling his 1928 Roadster have had in 1928 and Xenon headlights and LED tail lights. “I pretty much new what I wanted,” he says. “The hard part was coming up with the money and searching out the parts.” Bryce’s Street Rods in Erie took Fraser’s

design and made it come to life. Now, Fraser plans on taking a small break before he takes on his next project. As far as keeping the car once it is complete, he says he probably won’t. “I’ve had a lot of fun with it, but there are a lot of fun cars out there,” he says.

ColoRODans offers 40-year history By Kendall Schoemann Longmont Times-Call

When nine guys from different areas, backgrounds and groups decided to start their own car club, all they needed was their shared interest in cars. ColoRODans was officially established in March 1968, when the group met at members’ homes to discuss cars and how they could share their hobby with the community. Jack Kennedy, an original member for 30 years, says it was not a group of nine for long. “We got things going pretty quickly. Guys would hear about us and come to our meetings,” he says. “We were only like a year old before we found a building to rent.” The group decided a potential new member had to be sponsored by a current member before officially joining. “That way the person could learn more about us and we get to know them as well,” Kennedy says. Whether it was a young, old or new member, everyone had an equal voice in coming up with events for the ColoRODans. Names were drawn out of a hat each meeting to keep their ideas new and exciting. “In the beginning, we originally started out by showing

people what organized street rodding was all about,” Kennedy says. “We displayed our cars at town parades and grand openings.” Norm Kynn, an original member, reminisces the club’s early projects, which consisted of parades, constructing play equipment for schools and building bus benches. “We made some park benches that people could use while waiting for the RTD,” he says. “One still exists on Southcrop and Pratt. The ColoRODans’ first big event in 1970, the Rod Run, attracted people from around the country. “We would have the Show-N-Shine portion here in town and finish in Estes Park.” Kennedy says. “We showed people a good time and we would go to their events in return.” As the club grew, the guys started traveling to other street rodding events in neighboring states. “Our members traveled as far as they could on the weekends to make it back to work on Monday morning,” Kennedy says. Today, the group looks a little different. It has grown to 30 members who meet twice a month at the clubhouse on Kimbark Street. Through the years, the club has made a

ColoRODans Club members gather for their Tuesday night meeting at club headquarters in Longmont. The meeting is conducted by club president, Ed Barns, center, Bob Bennett, treasurer, and Sharon Larson, fill-in secretary. (Paul Litman/Times-Call)

name for itself in the community. Terry Campbell, ColoRODans’ board chairman, says they have won a trophy case full of awards. “We have awards that go back 40 years,” he says. “We place every year in the parade and get participation awards at local events.” The members of the ColoRODans will always have a passion for cars and a connection to the community.

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ColoRODans of Longmont 209 Kimbark Street Longmont, CO 80501

High Country Beverage High Country Harley JML Molding King Auto Group Leaning Tree LePeep Lillian’s McArthur Enterprises Main Street Tattoo Meineke Midwest Auto Body Mystic Spa Nicolo’s Pizza Oil Can Henry’s Oskar Blues Outback Perky’s Coffee Peterson Fine Art Prestige Chrysler Dodge Pro Automotive The Quick-Print Shop Red Lobster Red Robin Rib House Rocky Mtn. Kawasaki Rocky Mtn. Nova Club Roller Dolls Ron’s Printing S&S Upholstery Shorty’s BBQ Skidmore’s Sonic Drive-In Stonum Studio Boom Subworks Texas Road House Times-Call Tires Plus Tom Reed CPA Tribal Rites Valvoline Jeff Woodward Ziggi’s Coffee

The ColoRODans of Longmont have been a non-profit corporation, dedicated to “Fun With Cars”, since it’s inception in March of 1968. The ColoRODans annually sponsor and host the Rod Festival; the 40th Annual will be held this year at Roosevelt Park on July 25, 2010. The Rod Festival is not only a major event in the Rocky Mountain area, but is also recognized as one of the premier events in street rodding. Like many car clubs, we have become more active in community affairs. In the early years, the club was instrumental in the construction and placement of benches at mini-bus stops. We have worked with local Scout groups, held activities for charities, hosted a charity show for a local children’s home and have assisted Senior Meals on Wheels. In recent years, the club has donated food and clothing to needy families during Thanksgiving. Time and money were donated for elementary playground equipment, twice donated monies to purchase Driver’s Education films for local high schools and have worked with VICA at Career Development Center, participated in many grand openings and community activities and continues to support the Boulder County Fair and Parade. We are proud sponsors of the Mountain States Children’s Home. We have and will continue to support the citizens of Longmont, because we share many of the same ideals and goals. Further information is available from any club member or at www.ColoRODans.org. Meetings are held twice a month; on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday. 30-149643