The
32 Annual Smokey Mountain
1955-56-57
Classic Chevy Roundup
Held May
15th-17th 2009 at The Inn at Christmas Place
Sponsored by the Smokey Mountain Classic Chevy Club
The rain threatened to ruin things at the start of every day. In the end, the classic car lovers prevailed and the sun cooperated to make this an excellent meet. Meet we did, many of us met our founder Otis (TriFive) for the first time. We can finally put some faces to the names we have befriended on the forum. The parking lot lit up like Christmas lights as the cars rolled in one by one. With almost 180 TriFives in attendance it was sun glasses time. The cars were separated into the three years along with a few specialty race cars and a few hot looking Chevy trucks. I spent most of my time taking pictures and talking to the car owners. It was so easy to get great pictures with such beautiful bright shiny TriFives. Lil Greaser, one of our members, said, " It is like sticking the lens of your camera into a bag of skittles."
Otis
arranged an area
for a booth with TriFive banners and enough mints to satisfy any sweet
tooth. My thanks go to Josh (Shau57) and his family for keeping someone at
the booth all the time. They spent a
lot of hours baking in the
An interesting thing I noticed is how many of our members showed up without their cars, including me. I don't take this as a bad sign, but a good one. As a member of TriFive, you can take your car completely apart and get over 9,000 people to help you put it back together again -- eat your heart out Humpty Dumpty. It is truly a sign that most of us, with the help of the rest of the members, can tackle any task on fixing up our projects. The encouragement is priceless. I know that's true in my case. This show really inspired me to get to work on my own project -- maybe next year.
I
want to thank my friend, neighbor and photographer Sam Ruggiero for the quality
pictures.
The pictures are broken into year. I hope you enjoy them. If you want a larger format of the pictures shown, please contact me and I will e-mail it to you. Ed
Do not miss these pictures
Trucks Some of the usual suspects
Along with these great pictures I was lucky enough to talk to a couple of our members that did bring their cars, Thanks for showing me around your Chevy's.
Ronny’s 55
I did get a couple of pictures of Ronny with his feet hanging out from under the car as he spent a lot of time cleaning and polishing everything. He had front and rear mirrors that allowed you to look completely under the car and it was clean. Enough of my ramblings -- here is Ronny’s 55. Thanks for sharing the car with us. It is great to have you as a member.
Lil' Greaser
Recently at the Pigeon Forge Classic Car Roundup I had the opportunity to meet up with Li', Greaser, his wife and a few of their friends soaking up some sun and enjoying the show. They shared a much needed bottle of water and some friendly conversation. Of course, the major subject was Lil' Greaser's beautiful '55 two door.
A little about the car: He purchased this beauty 28 years ago in Vandalia, Ohio for just over a thousand dollars and that's where he drove it from for the show. It had been stored for 18 years. However, with a lot of inspiration and a few dollars more, Lil' Greaser did a complete frame off in his garage. He did it all himself with the help of a few friends -- except for final paint. It is a unique color, which he calls Creamsickle. The names fit -- both his and the cars :)
Paint colors are Vanilla
Shake and White Pearl.
This was truly a work of love.
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