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This was the 3rd year for Torque Fest in Maquoketa, IA. I pulled in at 9:30 to find about 250 spectators cars in the spectators lot. It was a bit chilly and cloudy, but nothing a light coat couldn’t fix.
By noon the sun was peaking through and the temp jump up to the upper 70’s … time to take the coat off …
There were about 350-400 bikes (including the Von Dutch bike with a VW engine owned by Mike Wolfe from the TV show American Pickers) and cars. There were easily over 3000 spectators that came in as the +1000 car spectators area was full and all the side streets around the show were packed for 4 blocks.
They had more cars this year, and a heck of a lot more spectators.
Right before noon I grabbed a hot dog covered in grandama’s chili for a $1.50 and right after that, the 3 locations that were selling food were 50-80 people deep in line waiting for burgers, dogs and steak sandwiches.
They had lots of great vendors selling old car parts, automotive art, vintage clothes and vintage house hold stuff (one vendor came in from Cali). No made in china tools and parts at this show. I had my eye on a pin-stripped bowling pin that I checked out twice and was going to buy on my way out, but it was gone at my final visit with the vendor.
The cars on the dirt track were pretty tame this year, with one spin out that lead to the car taking out some tires.
No judging at this show. Each car club (18 clubs from around the country showed up) makes their own award and they pick their favorite.
The reason why this show is so successful is that they have different things to get the car owners involved and other events than just staring at cars for 7 hours straight that really brings in the spectators. The staff that puts on this event, gets it. They have the perfect formula for having a perfect show.
Below is a 4 minute video with some of my photos and short videos, and below that is a sample of the photos that are also in the video.
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpeOk2upxq4[/video]
You think you’ve seen a Honda Civic with a big exhaust tip … check out this guy:
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Looks like a lot of fun, thanks for sharing.
Those “rat rods” are cool, but so many of them do not look safe or road worthy at all
Thanks for sharing the photos; but for some reason the you tube video is blocked when I tried it. Looks like a great event.
Same result here. The video link does not work.
Try this link for the video:
I wanted to go to that soooooooo bad!
Youtube and their copyrights … I sent the following to youtube and they unlocked the video ….
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Good news… you can trek 90 miles north of Madison this labor day weekend and enjoy everything that RumbleFest has to offer….
http://www.rumblefest.net or http://www.facebook.com/rumblefestshow
Questions? Ask….
krooser wrote:Good news… you can trek 90 miles north of Madison this labor day weekend and enjoy everything that RumbleFest has to offer….http://www.rumblefest.net or http://www.facebook.com/rumblefestshow
Questions? Ask….
Ryan,
I’ll bet you could find that bowling pin you were looking for, here.:whistle:The final registration numbers for TorqueFest was 980 cars and bikes over the 3 days.
I’ve still have my eyes open for that bowling pin!
And a new bowling shirt!
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