by Stephanie Adamek | Rick's Rusty Relics
Not often do people understand how difficult it is to find or think of new exhibits for our shows. So much time, critiquing, arguing… er discussing, frustration and especially labor goes into each thing we have on our showgrounds. And volunteers… LOTS of...
by Stephanie Adamek | Rick's Rusty Relics
What. A. Year. 2020 has brought so many serious moments and some that have also brought us smiles. The most important thing I have taken from this year thus far is to give one another grace and love. Things on the farm have been quite eventful, without the 2020...
by Rick Minter | Rick's Rusty Relics
If you never got to know the late Clarence Betsill, the man who created the popular liquor still exhibit at Inman Farm Heritage Days, you missed a real treasure. He was a simple man – a mechanic, farmer and yes, a moonshiner. And he was one of smartest,...
by Rick Minter | Rick's Rusty Relics
One of the hardest lessons I’ve learned over the years is to never leave an engine sitting without an air cleaner over the carburetor. Even with the hood closed on a vehicle that sits outside – or maybe even inside – water will get into an engine and...
by Rick Minter | Rick's Rusty Relics
The first time I saw this old 1978 Ford F250 a friend of mine came by as we were preparing for Inman Farm Heritage Days a couple of years ago and offered to sell it to me. I was stretched pretty thin at that point and passed on buying it even though the price was...
by Rick Minter | Rick's Rusty Relics
I ran into my old-car friend Garry McWhirter (the guy at NASCAR races and car shows wearing red shoes) at the Cumming Steam and Gas Exposition last weekend. We were talking about the state of the old car/old truck/old tractor hobby and he said that when he...
