The 2008 Street Rodder Road Tour Kicked off from Coker Tire Headquarters in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Our renovations were almost complete and the tour cars along with with over a hundred other cars were on display. The tour stops include Barillaro Speed Emporium in Knoxville, TN, Car Museum and Detroit Speed-Mooresville, NC, The Victory Junction Gang Camp-Randleman, NC, Harley Davidson Assembly Plant-York, PA, Posies-Hummelstown, PA, Party at Southern Tier Harley- Binghamton, NY and The Syracuse Nationals-Syracuse, NY. Casey Coker talks about the tour, stops and the kickoff show at the Coker Tire Headquarters.

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(June 19, 2008) a fleet of slick full-size Chevrolets invade the Coker Tire headquarters in Chattanooga,TN. The club consists of only 1965 and 1966 Chevy big cars and left quite an “impression” on the show field, while they toured and visited our headquarters. Super sports and rare caprices were among this one of a kind tour. Visit our photo gallery for more highlights from this cool tour.

After months of planning and preparation. Exhibits for Coker Tire Company’s 50th Anniversary and Honest Charley’s 60th Anniversary loaded up and headed west today on a truck bound for the NHRA Museum in Pomona, CA. The exhibit featuring cars, products and memorabilia will be on display at the museum through November 16, 2008.

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If you are a car guy or gal, you have more than likely seen the coverage SPEED TV does of the Barrett-Jackson Auction in Scottsdale in January. Barrett-Jackson is certainly a superlative concerning collector vehicle auctions, but in all fairness to my friends Craig and Nellie Jackson, there are a few other cool auctions in Scottsdale the same week. Rob Myers and crew (RMAuctions) put on a great auction at the Phoenix Biltmore. Drew and Josephine Alcazar are also big buddies with their Russo and Steele Auction. David Gooding does an excellent job with his Gooding and Company Auction too. I had the opportunity to make the rounds but was successful in resisting the temptation to buy something this year. I did like the 58 Packard Hawk super charged car at the RM auction though. It was probably one of the nicest Packard Hawks I had ever seen. (more…)

If you habit events pertaining to vintage motorcycles you might have been lucky enough to experience the historical vision of the original Super Six Hudson “truck” of Elbert R Hall, famous purveyor of all things motorcycle. This famous “truck” is not really a truck at all but a 1929 4 door sedan automobile converted to a “cooler than dang it” farm truck. Elbert’s son and current guardian of the Hudson “truck” has a blast entertainin hisself and crowds at the event he takes “Elbert…the truck” to. (more…)

One of the most important places to be when mid August rolls around is the Monterey Bay area of California. Our company has been actively participating in the events around Pebble Beach some time, especially the adrenaline filled action at Laguna Seca. The Steve Earle family and their company, General Racing Ltd with the help of their friends at SCRAMP (racing group acronym) have done a wonderful job at producing the Monterey Historics for some long time. This year the Monterey Historics celebrated Indy Roadsters. There were so many Offy powered 4 wheeled powerhouses it was actually difficult to count them all. (more…)

If you do collector cars, hot rods and antique motorcycles there are about a scrillion (that’s a big number!) Car shows, Cruise Ins and Swap Meets every weekend all over the country! And we go to a bunch of them! There are a few really good ones during the winter time but for the most part the show season for ‘hard cores’ cranks up late in January or in early February.

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The National Street Rod Association is a 56,000+ member organization headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee that focuses on hot rods n street rods and the celebration and use of same. The NSRA holds quite a number of events around the country that gather owners of street rods and companies who provide product and services to those owners. The largest and best known of the events the NSRA puts on is the Street Rod Nationals in Louisville, Kentucky. As many as 5000 street rods cruise in to Lewavull during the summer. You can read about our participation at this years Street Rod Nationals on an earlier blog post.

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What happens in Vegas…..stays in Vegas….NOT!

You probably have seen the slick TV commercial by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Bureau. I think of a different spin on that TV ad. I think what happens in Vegas the week of the SEMA Show, doesn’t stay but immediately blasts throughout the world! Here’s why:

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Jared “J-Rod” Cooley and Chris Knecht started out on Thursday the 26th at about 4am. The drive over to Charlotte went well…smooth sailing! They got to Lowe’s Motor Speedway about 10:30am. Setup was a breeze they just pulled up to the Nextel garage door, lifted it up, and went to town setting up.

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