A trip to a Phoenix swap meet

[the510keeper]

Victory and I decided to take our new drivable coupe to the Phoenix swapmeet.

 

Got a great deal on a room in Vegas, for the weekend so we figured we would hit LV then the swapmeet and end in LV.

Fun, fun all the way around.

Left on Thursday night 5pm drove 5 hours. Got a cheap hotel in Hawthorne NV.

 

I forgot to mention we have no reverse and no 5th gear.

4th gear 4500 rpm most the trip (ROUGHLY 75MPH)

 

Friday (day before the swap meet) Pulled in to Las Vegas roughly at 3pm

 

We decided if we leave between 5-6am we will arrive at the meet in time for fun.

Picked up some cupcakes for the meet

They got sat on

 

Shuttle to the strip at 8pm

feeling good, did some dancing, mingling, and it was halloween weekend.

Even the cops are cool in Vegas

 

Well to make a long story short we got back to the room when we were suppose to leave for the swap meet.

Bummer

We did this a few more nights. and stayed a couple days longer then we planned. It all turned out great.

We stayed long enough to go to Sema.

Met Bob 3 and Tommy.

Got to check out Chris' Coupe, and hang with him and his girl.

Got a pic of Victory with Pete Brock's car

 

Not so fun drive home, but made it. Now back to reality

[Ranman72]

more pics

looks like a nice trip

-the cupcakes

[ol' 320]

 

Victory's "Keeper"

 

sigh....

 

Why didn't the American people elect this dude president? Think of The Keeper's domestic policies ....

 

***A free orphaned Suzuki for everyone on welfare, and a tank of gas to get them across the nearest border.

***Trade in an incumbent politician, and get a free cupcake

***Free, affordable health care plan for obese Americans, Ratsun style: Sentence the fat to use pedal-powered 320 p/u as daily commuters until their body mass index allows them to slip right in behind the wheel with no belly-rubbing on the steering wheel rim.

 

And how about the 510Keeper's foreign policies? Why, he can out chuck Chuck Norris, and no new tax increases required!

 

 

***Foreign policy and tough on crime combo, with the free Ratsun bonus of saving an American institution, the U.S. Postal Service: Send all violent three-strikers and convicted child molesters, gift-wrapped and "two-day delivery" (don't want to be too extravagant) to the President of Iran, as early Christmas presents.

 

Economic plan, stimulus and forced fiscal saving plan for All Americans:

*** $300 Ratsuns for everyone. This gets everyone rolling in the right direction, at least for awhile. Then they have to become self-reliant, so they an keep these machines moving. The 510Keeper will blog daily to his beloved constituents, offering helpful McGuyver mechanical fixes. Nothing will really runnfantasic, 'cuz we know he's not a mechanic, but James will pump everyone up and full of enthusiasm, and their cars will look really cool!

 

Meanwhile, our new Ratsun President will task his new Chief Technical Advisor - Mike Klotz - who will no longer have to be a slave to domestic mail delivery because all the remaining postal workers will be dispatched to deliver human care packages to Iran, will guide our citizens in their daily efforts to become self-sufficient auto repairmen. His daily video blogs will be infused with subliminal messaging from Washington to help ease people's fears and so they come to realize our new government is really here to help.

 

And when President James inevitably eludes his squadron of Skyline driving Secret Service detail in his illicit Bluebird coupe - obscenely modified with super secret MX5 power and driven by Tommy B, who will have grown bored with racing in SCCA and Colorado in general, and seeks greater road mayhem-inducing challenges - when our new Ratsun president is discovered in a den of inequity with his new policy advisors (pictured with James above) is found frolicking with imported Ukrainian hotties in a Vegas pool - First Lady Victory will forgive him, as will the American People.

 

For he shall have restored all that is right in the world. And painted BigTankers's 521 Sea-Mist Triple-Flake Pearl Metallic.

 

And we will re-elect him.

 

The 510Keeper

 

Our Keeper

 

And Skib will live in the Lincoln Bedroom. With that damn cat. James' cat.

 

And email pics. Daily pics. Of Wayno, who will save NASA. Because Present James the Keeper will will wan to vacation on the dark side of the moon.

 

In a new Ratsun space shuttle.

 

A crew cab Space Shuttle built from the last remaining orphaned 320s in the Pacific Northwest. Welded together by Jesusno2. And powder-coated 521 Jade Green by Jrock4224. Powered by some insane overstressed KA built by Nismo720 and driven through a stressed-out weird ultra rare Maxima hybrid short-tail automatic built by Datzenmike and a discount H190 gearset bought by Wayno half-off on a muddy, rainy Thanksgiving sale at Pick and Pull.

 

And on his moonshot vacation James the 510Keeper and his cross-dressing sidekick refugees from Vegas will open the shuttle doors and piss all over the Honda-driving attendees at the 2013 SEMA show. From space. While eating cupcakes.

 

And then Apple will buy Ratsun. At a garage sale. Run by Skib and that damn cat of James. The strange cat.

 

And Ratsun will live on in iCloud.

 

 

 

 

Forever.

[Steroid]

I wish I'd known You were in Vegas. I spent 3 days @ SEMA hanging out with the crew that displayed the 1931 Mack beer truck. I was all over SEMA. Also, Shingo Takashita and Yoshi from Trucktrends (Japan) Magazine were present. We all spent Halloween night up on Freemont Street. I saw Pete's car but never saw Him. Got an autograph from Vic Edelbrock among other things. Maybe next year.

[the510keeper]

wow very nice

 

Damn cats

[ol' 320]

2016. I'm telling ya.

[Bob3]

It was great meeting you and Victory! Oh - thanks for the DATSUN shirts too!

 

Cheers - Bob3