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...
by Rick Minter | Rick's Rusty Relics
Back in the day, one of my favorite cousins, the late Weldon Stubbs, was well known in these parts for his slow driving. He rarely drove over 45 or 50 miles per hour, and even though there was a lot less traffic back then, he could stack up some cars...
by Rick Minter | Rick's Rusty Relics
Anybody that knows anything about me knows how cheap I am. I’ll spend money at the parts store or the junkyard, but not a lot. When we go out to eat, anything over $10 a person makes me uncomfortable. I’ve made trips to Daytona for the races and spent...
by Rick Minter | Rick's Rusty Relics
Like many other motorsports reporters, I’ve always been really tickled to get a really good quote. You never know when or where they will come. One of my favorites came years ago when I was interviewing then-Penske Racing president Don Miller and his then-young...
by Rick Minter | Rick's Rusty Relics
The term “barn find” pops up a lot in old car magazines and in classified ads. I always look at those claims with a bit of suspicion, but I do know of one that is for sure a barn find, or at least it was for me. One of my neighbors, K.D. Booth, has collected...
