It was indeed a fine outing!! A little early at the Y to meet up (6:45) but for a change, we left close to on time.

By the time we hit Marble Falls and the Bluebonnet Cafe for a fine complimentary breakfast (Thanks to David Horner at Restoration Specialties) we had the following Donuts and guests:  Stan and his beat up old Merc, Chester in his red, red Chevy coupe, Jim Greene in the recently finished Chevelle with Billy Brisco (who works at SRF), Jim Smith in the Pearl coupe, Lee Wood in his multi-year Mercury convertible, Tony Adsley in his down in the dirt Impala, Jim Newton (and his pal who's name has escaped me) in his Chevy sedan, Bill Ward in some kind of plastic car, Warren Matney riding with Tony, Mark Gustafson and dad, Bill in Marks primer pickup, Ozzie Wagner in his fine Chevy Sedan, Dan Brinkman in the other Impala, Paul Brault in his Three Window, Roy Reeves in the black hiboy, Art Smith (no rain in sight) in his fine '56, Maurice Allen in his Red Deuce (did he really let Paul drive it???), Ken McDonald in another plastic car, Jeff Alder in the music to your ears Deuce coupe, and me, along with Jalopy Joe, in the Too Low T-Bird.  We were accompanied by Jimmy Fingers in his mean sounding El Camino, Mike Campbell in his waaay tooo coool full fendered Deuce, and Rayford Reese in his nice Merc (or maybe a Lincoln?).

The first stop was a used car lot east of Marble Falls with gob and gobs of nice old 4-doors. There were a ton of huge cars from the '60's and a few from the '50's and earlier. But they were mostly 4 door which kept enthusiasm to a minimum.

Next, it was off to Marble Falls Upholstery where there was a pretty fine '34 in the works.

After that we headed out to Restoration Specialties new digs, (David says they had 3,000 sq. feet at the old place compared to 10,000 sq ft here), and what a nice change it was. A showroom (they didn't have one before) had five or six finished rods, and in the under progress area, there was a collection of rods being built to boggle the mind! 

Then we headed over to Rayford's (one of his garages!) garage for a look at just a portion of his collection. Man, does he have some great stuff!! That's where we saw that '50's style shoebox Ford (with the exhaust coming out of the bumper guards), and a very eclectic collection of other stuff. Rayford says he doesn't look for anything in particular, but strikes when something catches his fancy.

Then we stopped by Mike Campbells new place for a look around. Brand new building and a few of Mike's fine rides on display. Mike was our guide throughout the day, and a big thanks to him for keeping us all eyes wide open.

The last stop (for a few of us) was Opie's Bar-B-Q for some good stuff (Stan is STRONG!).

Boys, it was a good one! 

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