42nd Annual Rod Festival | July 27, 28, 29, 2012
Roosevelt Park, Longmont, Colorado
The ColoRODans of Longmont are extending an invitation for you to attend the 42nd Annual Rod Festival. We will be gathering at Roosevelt Park in Longmont and are excited about the beautiful setting. Get your entry in early since we can only guarantee goodie bags to the first 450 cars. Pre-entry will qualify you for discounts on entry fee and eligibility for drawings on special door prizes. Hope to see you there!
Saturday, May 12th Cruise Main Street Longmont and pre-register
For July Rod Festival at Pacific Auction facility 1330 N. Main from 5 to 9 pm. Dash plaques to first 500 entrants
Seven Thirty comes early, but for many, that was the time people started lining up to get prime spots at Longmont’s Roosevelt Park for the official 41st annual Rod Fest. This year was one of the biggest and smallest ever!!
The Theme this year for the RodFest was the largest collection of peddle cars this side of the Mississippi. There were nearly 100 classic and antique peddle cars in all forms of restoration from Mint to “ Needs a little more love”.
Of course, if we wanted to do some racing between peddle cars and some of the larger counterparts, we did have some amazing custom built small engines displayed in both I4 and V8 configurations.
These gave the big cars a run for there money. Of course, read more here
Prez Sez…
I had the chance to travel to Barbados and visited the Barbados Car Museum. The Barbados Car Museum is the private collection of Bill Mallalieu, Founder and current President of the Barbados Rally Car Club.
Founded in 1957 the Rally has attracted racers from all over the world. The cars in the museum are present for several reasons. They are either Rally cars or are extremely rare cars for one reason or another. When we visited Bill was currently working a Rolls Royce 1964 model I think. Waterpump had gone out and in the process of trying to replace the waterpump he had ended up taking off the heads and were having new guides installed.
Great cars with very interesting histories (see pictures here). Racers and limousines for dignitaries… Austins, Bentleys, Rolls, Volvos, Lanchester, Rover, Wolseley, Daimler just to name a few.
It was great to visit the Barbados Car Museum and talk to Bill M. who has raced since 1957 in Road Rallys. Just a note: his favorite Rally car is a Ford powered Volvo because of speed and number of Rally wins. Who would of thought.
See you at the club house…
Bill Stone
As we get ready for another FUN!! season, we look back at the fun times that we had during those early spring months when you couldn’t really take out the hotrod.
Here are a few things the ColoRODans were up to over in 2011.
FireFighter’s Hot Times and Kool Cars : Hot Times and Nachos!!
Bunco at the clubhouse: Bunco at the clubhouse
Surprise gathering in Longmont: Sonic Cruise on Main Street
About the ColoRODans…
The ColoRODans is a fun, family oriented car club who has called Longmont home since 1968. Furthermore, the ColoRODans have been a non-profit corporation dedicated to “FUN WITH CARS” since it’s inception in March of 1968.
The ColoRODans participate in many family friendly related events every year including many that that also give back to the various communities around Colorado. Once a year, the ColoRODans give back to Longmont with a special event such as the ColoRODan’s RodFestival, and recently, they have been successful bringing cruising back to Longmont.
Fun and parties are not the only thing the ColoRODans give back to the community, however…
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