{"id":15874,"date":"2010-08-11T16:04:09","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T15:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=15874"},"modified":"2022-06-22T15:36:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T14:36:04","slug":"hayride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/features\/hayride\/","title":{"rendered":"Hayride"},"content":{"rendered":"

Billed as the most unique hot rod event in Europe the ‘Hot Rod Hayride ‘ has a lot to live up to. This made the Friday night dash up from Cornwall all the more anxious!<\/p>\n

Hosted by Jerry Chatabox & ‘The Executioners’ car club this year\u2019s 6th Hayride was promising to be the biggest yet.<\/p>\n

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The venue has a lot to do with it, historic Bisley showground with its famous shooting range & colonial wooden rifle club lodges is a fitting location for the rumble of open headers, multi carbureted flathead V8’s & shiny metal flaked Triumph bobbers .<\/p>\n

With more selvedge denim than the square mile this was THE\u00a0purist hot rod & rockabilly event. The chopped, channeled early Fords all got their chance to get real dirty at the oval dirt track on Saturday as the event included a \u2018run what ya brung\u2019.<\/p>\n

Saturday night saw those purists don their finest & take in a show at the ‘Demon Drome’ wall of death show. I had taken my 6yr old boy to this & the sight of early Indian motorcycles getting blasted round a 1920’s wooden cylinder left him so amped there was no chance of getting him to sleep!<\/p>\n

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I\u2019d hoped by Sunday & the hotly contested ‘Soapbox Derby’ he’d be cured of this madness that is early Hot Rods, instead he was rolling up the sleeves of his black ‘Wall of Death’ tee & I’d promised him we’d make him a soapbox for next year … I on the other hand, had promised myself that early Model A Phaeton with Halibrand Kidney Bean wheels & a rumbling V8! Anxious!<\/p>\n

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