I stopped in at the 5th annual Bates County Elks Lodge Car, Truck and Bike Show and decided to snap a few pictures to share with you here.

My favorite car was a 1925 Chevy Series K brought by Harley Harvey.

See the slide show at the end to see more photographs of all the vehicles.

Austin Douty brought a very cool 1946 Chevy Truck Rat Rod project. I really liked the potential I saw in this tricked ride! Can't wait to see it done!

Gerald Griffin brought out a nice ol' 1964 Chevelle.

Johnnie Hough brought out a couple vehicles this one is a 1929 Ford he's been working on.

Johnnie Hough also showed off his very cool 1940 Ford Truck!

Kevin Keener's 1966 Chevy Truck was a big hit with the truck enthusiasts!

Gerald Griffin brought out his primer coated 1963 Ford Falcon.

Another one of my favorites was the beautiful 1961 Cadillac convertible brought out by Lawrence Bayless. I've always wanted one of these babies, especially in white! Growing up watching the Dukes of Hazard I always wanted a Boss Hogg Car. I was fortunate back then to have had a 1968 Charger that we called the General Lee as we ran the backroads of Central Missouri yelling Yee-Haw! But deep down it was Boss Hoggs old Caddy I always wanted to drive.

This weekend I was in Butler helping a Dentist find a new location for a dentist office in Butler, MO. Since I had a bit of time to kill between showings I decided to visit the Bates County Car Show at the VFW.

I was pretty impressed, although I didn't stick around for the final results, the show winner was pretty obvious to me. How the heck can you beat an all ( or mostly ) Original 1925 Chevrolet!

This thing was beautiful! I've seen hundreds of old 1920's Fords, but to find a nearly perfect series K 1925 Chevy is really a treat. Only 519,229 of them were built and very few remain.

The 1925 Chevrolet Series K Superior was a much-improved new model for Chevy, which it needed after making do with a little-changed model in 1924 Series F Superior.

Still on a 103-inch wheelbase, the 1925 Chevrolet Series K carried an nicely modified version of Chevy's familiar 171-cubic-inch four-cylinder engine. It developed 26 horsepower, and a single dry plate clutch replaced the obsolete cone clutch. Chevy engineers also replaced the car's quarter-elliptic rear springs with modern semi-elliptic units.

Chevrolet axles had always been notoriously weak, and customers knew it. So a new semi-floating rear axle with one-piece "banjo" casing was installed. It was borrowed from the abandoned Copper-Cooled model. Brakes were new 11-inch-diameter pieces, but still operated only on the rear wheels.

Finished with Duco paint in different colors depending on model, Series K bodies were a little roomier than those of the Series F. Five body styles went on sale: roadster, touring, coupe, coach, and sedan.

The Series K Superior touring car cost $525, versus a mere $290 for a Ford Model T.

To counter that difference, Chevrolet promoted the idea that its cars really were "Superior," well worth the extra dollars. Touring cars and roadsters wore wood-spoke wheels. Coupes and sedans got steel-disc wheels with 29x4.40 balloon tires, for a lower look.

With the introduction of the Superior, sales rose nearly 70 percent. Chevrolet now sat firmly in the number two spot in U.S. auto sales, behind Ford and ahead of Hudson.

Monday, June 6th, 2011, 7:40 am
Source: The Wall Street Journal

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