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Wallowa County Chieftain
Wednesday, June 12, 2019
Photos Ellen Morris Bishop
This 1938 Chevy hotrod is owned by Harrison Bowlds of The Dalles, Oregon
A 1949 Chevy 3100 pickup owned by Bret and Rhonda Paulson
of Lewiston, Idaho, sports a 350 Crate engine with plenty of
chrome. It also boasts rack and pinion steering from a 1989
T-bird, a 1991 Camaro rear end, and a DeSoto rear bumper.
Oregon Mountain Cruise car show lights up Joseph
By Ellen Morris Bishop
Wallowa County Chieftain
On a day of rain, clouds,
and fi nally, sunshine, the
30th annual Oregon Moun-
tain Cruise hot rod, antique,
and classic car show lit up
Joseph’s Main Street with
a display of more than 200
vehicles, all polished to per-
fection. They came from as
far away as Tucson, Ari-
zona, and as close as Black
Marble Lane. But their
owners, and the visitors
who swarmed Main Street
on Saturday, June 8th, all
had one thing in common:
a fascination with gasoline
engines and the vehicles
they power.
The oldest cars in the
show included Ralph Swine-
heart’s lovingly restored
Model Ts. They were parked
next to Lew and Carol
Baynes immaculate 1936
Packard 1404 coupe con-
vertible, just up the road
from Joe Stangel’s meticu-
lously restored 1933 Chrys-
ler cabrolet. Both the Pack-
ard and Chrysler restoration
seconds,”
Packard owner Rich Hayden snaps a photo of
the hood ornament a1936 Packard 1404 coupe,
owned by Lew and Carol Baynes.
Wallowa County
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JOSEPHY CENTER FOR
THE ARTS AND CULTURE
403 Main Street Joseph, Oregon
included many parts that
were specially fabricated
and machined in Stangel’s
shop in Enterprise. A num-
ber of hotrods were conver-
sions of older cars, includ-
ing Jim Percy’s gleaming,
candy-apple red 1934 Ford
Tudor sedan, Harrison
Bowlds metallic teal-blue
1938 Chevy 2-door sedan,
and Tammy Cook’s bright
red 1926 Ford 2 door sedan.
Hot rods and super fast
cars included a 1972 Chevy
Nova ‘rod customized by
Dominic Nation, of Middle-
ton, Idaho. Its dual-carbed
383 Stroker Chevy engine
provided 518 horsepower
to the wheels, delivering
530 ft-lb of torque. “She can
do a quarter-mile in 11.8
Introducing Orthopedic Surgeon
Dr. Adam Heisinger
• Doctor of Osteopathy,
Des Moines University, Iowa
• Internship and Residency completed
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Medical Center, Ohio; Fellowship in
sports medicine completed at Orthopedic
Research of Virginia, Richmond
of this mutt-of-a-vehicle
The 383 engine in Dominic Nation’s 1972 Chevy Nova turns out 518
horsepower, and takes the vehicle from 0 to 122 mph in 11.8 seconds.
WINNERS AT OREGON MOUNTAIN CRUISE SHOW
Selected First Prize Win-
ners of the Oregon Moun-
tain Cruise show:
Modifi ed/Custom truck:
1948 Chevrolet, green. Scot
Duncan, Boise, ID.
Ford Desoto, fi resweep. Lee
and Lorna Swenger, Baker
City, OR
Hot Rod: 1932 Ford Road-
ster, black. Troy and Terina
Adams, Hayden , ID.
Classic restored car: 1933
Chrysler Cabrolet, yellow. Joe
Stangel, Enterprise, OR
Modifi ed/Custom car: 1969
Chevrolet Camaro, green.
Steve and Jackie Smith,
Caldwell, ID
Classic Restored truck:1963
Chevrolet ½ ton, blue. Gary
Unze, Bend, OR
Sports Car: 1962 Austin
Healy, blue and white. Guy
and Darlene Blakeslee, Boise,
ID
Nation said. “Speed at the
end of the quarter in 122
mph. She gets around 7 miles
per gallon of premium.”
Most intriguing vehi-
cle, or perhaps most tongue-
in-cheek entries included
Gene Taylor’s “RatRod”
– a hybrid of a Chevrolet
pickup frame, 1947 Ford
cab, and Cadillac engine.
The pickup box on the back
Unrestored car/truck: 1967
was emblazoned with “Aso-
tin Café: Burgers, fries and
shakes.” It also bore a phone
number that seemed abbre-
viated: CH3-6211. “That
was part of the original
sign on the original Asotin
Café,” Taylor said. “I grew
up there, and my grandpar-
ents and then my parents ran
the place. It closed a long
time ago. My mom’s 93
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Moonshine Hauler: 1962
Ford L110 pickup red & rust.
Robert and Kathy Hoover,
Lewiston, ID
ably not going to re-open.”
The vehicle that pro-
vided the most fun was the
“Flintstones” car, built on
the frame of a1972 Har-
ley Davidson golf cart. “We
put it together mostly so
that kids would have some-
thing to do that was fun,”
said builder Jim Washam,
of Lewiston, Idaho. “Kids
come to these shows with
their family and they are
told they can’t touch any-
thing, sit in anything, or
really, do anything. So we
built his so they could sit in
it, turn the wheel, and even
blow the horn.” Which they
did. A lot.
Toe-tapping live music
by the Senders, a band cen-
tered in Moscow, Idaho,
kept the mood as light as
the afternoon sun and the
brightly colored cars, all of
which were works of auto-
motive art. One man who
was admiring a gleaming
engine noted, “When all the
cars are electric, car shows
aren’t going to be this much
fun anymore.”
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