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[Jerry Entin]

Buck Boudeman auditioning new hot shoes for his Golden Submarine

Bill Wiswedel's grand daughter Gracie Jo Cottrell riding shotgun and her buddy Allison Conner doing the wheel work.

Buck Boudeman and his wife Constance brought their Golden Submarine to the event for everyone to enjoy.

Bill Wiswedel has a great party at the end of summer every year. There is plenty of food and drink and fellowship and cars.

Edited by Jerry Entin, 07 September 2013 - 23:50.

[Jerry Entin]

Buck Boudeman enjoying Bill Wiswedel's party with Denny Lesky of the Ionia Hotrod shop and Randy Northuis.

Constance Boudeman explaining the Golden Submarine to Dean Kasten.

Edited by Jerry Entin, 08 September 2013 - 15:07.

[Jerry Entin]

Chef Mike Steele of the Stack BBQ making the Barbecue chicken

Some of the drinks at the party, ice tea and lemonade and soft drinks and beer and wine.

Edited by Jerry Entin, 08 September 2013 - 01:27.

[Jerry Entin]

Some of the different types of salads that were brought by guests to the summer party
The white bowl in the middle was made by my wife, Carmen Entin and it is her Napa salad.

Bill Wiswedel's wife Mary Jo is in charge of all the food and it is terrific. She is also in charge of all the drinks and desserts.

Edited by Jerry Entin, 07 September 2013 - 23:53.

[Jerry Entin]

Bill and Mary Jo Wiswedel our host and hostess


photo: Tim Ritter

Edited by Jerry Entin, 09 September 2013 - 23:12.

[Jerry Entin]

1950 Kurtis Indy car
This is the unraced 1950 Kurtis Indy car of Mike Guffey. It was in the Peterson collection and recently aquired by Mike Guffey.

Side view of the Kurtis Indy car
This car is one of two cars made in 1950 for Gil Pearson to run at Indy.

Edited by Jerry Entin, 12 September 2013 - 02:05.

[Jerry Entin]

Bill Wiswedel's Kurtis Sportscar

This car is Buick Nailhead powered and the engine was built for Bill Wiswedel by the late Ray Baker.

Edited by Jerry Entin, 08 September 2013 - 15:20.

[Jerry Entin]

Nice BSA motorcycle that was at the party

Another BSA motorcyle at the party

Edited by Jerry Entin, 08 September 2013 - 01:14.

[Jerry Entin]

Retro Corvette at party owned by Kevin Aldridge
This is a modern type Corvette with a 1953 type front and rear end attached to give it a Retro look.

Rear view of Retro Corvette
These cars were made in the Detroit area by a company called AAT and here is their site;http://www.aatcars.com/about.html

Edited by Jerry Entin, 13 September 2013 - 23:40.

[Jerry Entin]

Very nice street rod Woody at the party

Stunning Roadster seen at the party
Kirk Brown from the Grand Rapids area brought his 32 Ford roadster to the party and most of the component parts on the car are aluminum castings. It has small block Chevy power.

Edited by Jerry Entin, 11 September 2013 - 05:57.

[Jerry Entin]

Turbo Subaru powered track day car owned by Dan Moon of the Fremont, Michigan area

Edited by Jerry Entin, 08 September 2013 - 15:25.

[Jerry Entin]

Street rod with unusal engine

Street rod with dual Turbo charged Offy
This car is owned by Cass Casmir of Hammond, Indiana and was built by Cass and his friend Steve Truchan.

Edited by Jerry Entin, 08 September 2013 - 15:04.

[Levin68]

I'm very taken with the Corvette "retro".

[Ray Bell]

Great stuff as usual, Jerry...

 

I can't wait to get back over there again and see some more of this stuff!

[Jerry Entin]

Very nice Hot Rod
This one is Flat Head Ford powered

Hot Rod small block Chevy powered

Edited by Jerry Entin, 08 September 2013 - 13:47.

[Jerry Entin]

Pam Babbitt's 57 Chevy Bel Air
This was our ride to the Party. My wife Carmen and myself and our neighbor Carl Goeb made the trip to the party in Pam's Chevy.

[Jerry Entin]

Tim Ritter and Fred Stout
Fred Stout owned and raced the Formula 5000 Lola that Bill Wiswedel had in his collection, Fred is an accomplished oil paint artist and has done many beautiful race car oils.


photo: Tim Ritter

Edited by Jerry Entin, 10 September 2013 - 18:31.

[Jerry Entin]

Carl Heidiman's MGB Coupe with Fuel Injected Mazda motor

Mazda engine in MGB
Carl Heideman and his son Jack heard about this conversion on an MG forum and decided to try it themselves. They are very happy how the car now performs.

 

A friend of mine,the late Chic Vandagriff sold MG's in the Hollywood area. In the early 70's he went to England and told them if they wanted to sell more MG's they needed to add air conditioning and also fix the electrics on the car.
They told him the market was saturated and they weren't going to be able to sell more cars in the states. We all know how many Mazda Miatas were sold after this. I guess Chic was right and the MG higher ups missed the boat.


photos: Mike Botsko

Edited by Jerry Entin, 13 September 2013 - 20:16.

[Jerry Entin]

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Hot Rod Coupe

Rear view of Hip High Coupe
 This car is owned by Mike Boerema of the Gas Axe Garage in Allendale, Michigan

photos: Mike Botsko

Edited by Jerry Entin, 11 September 2013 - 15:21.

[Jerry Entin]

Bracket racing Dragster of Scott VanAntwerp at Party

Engine in Scott VanAntwerp's bracket racing Dragster

This car runs over 160 mph plus in the quater mile with an ET of around 8.75 seconds.

 

photo: Mike Bostko

Edited by Jerry Entin, 11 September 2013 - 15:15.

[Jerry Entin]

Bill Glover's Chevy  pickup truck

Edited by Jerry Entin, 13 September 2013 - 20:56.

[B Squared]

1950 Kurtiss Indy car
This is the unraced 1950 Kurtis Indy car of Mike Guffey. It was in the Peterson collection and recently aquired by Mike Guffey.

Side view of the Kurtis Indy car
This car is one of two cars made in 1950 for Gil Pearson to run at Indy.

A more complete story on this beautiful car:

 

http://www.auctionsa...=&category=Cars

[Jerry Entin]

Carl Heideman's 1906 Model N Ford
Carl Heideman is standing next to car in the dark blue shirt and his son Chris is standing with his arms crossed next to him. Carl brought his Model N Ford and his MGB Coupe to the party.

[Cappo]

God, that looks like my kinda party! 

[Michael Ferner]

How does one get invited? And who's going to pay for the flight?!

[Frank S]

Thank you, Jerry.

 

Your threads always remind me how fortunate we are to have such a diverse set of folks on this forum. Always a treat to see people enjoying themselves and some wonderful cars.

[Jerry Entin]

Beer cooler at Party

Cappo: Does this make it even more your kind of Party?

 

 

Michael: You only have to be a friend of Bill Wiswedel's to come to the party. I have room for you to stay with me if you could ever make it over.

 

Frank it is always great when I get to see you and I am happy to put up pictures and stories of different events I have attended.

 

Glad you are enjoying seeing them.

Edited by Jerry Entin, 14 September 2013 - 06:42.

[Jerry Entin]

Mercedes Military type Vehicle

 

photo: Mike Botsko
 

[Michael Ferner]

Many thanks, Jerry! I hope I can take you up on your offer, some day!

[Ray Bell]

If you go in summer he'll even take you out on the lake...

 

But you always have to budget more time with Jerry and Carmen than you expect... and expect to see things you never expected to see...