Econo NW Portland, June 24 2012.. ALL EARLIES WELCOME!

11th Annual Econoline NW
Sunday, June 24, 2012
10:00am to 2:00pm

Over 50 Early (1961-1967) Ford Econolines Rally. Awesome Car show! Hors d' oeuvres, prizes and vans vans vans!!! LRSD will be surprising the crowd with our amazing skillz and bumpin beats!

Les Schwab Tires
2410 SE 122nd
Portland, OR, 97233



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ECONO-NORTHWEST 2012

Hi all!

Okay, here's what I can tell you.

ECONO-NORTHWEST 2012
Sunday, June 24th 10am to 2pm
Les Schwab Tire Store
2410 SE 122nd
Portland, Oregon

For those that have been there before, you know there will be good food, good
people and a bunch of old Econolines. Dorothy will be making plenty of goodies
and we will have a good supply of drinks, but feel free to bring your own, just
no alcohol please. Instead of holding a raffle throughout the day we will have
one drawing at 2pm. Dorothy has made some very cool prizes so you definitely
want to stick around for it. I'll be giving away a few Econoline toys in the
raffle, too. I've got some new freebies for all in attendance, but the best
could go quickly. You don't need to bring your Econoline, but the more the
merrier. We had 39 early Econolines attend last year, which has to be some kinda
record for a strictly Econoline meet. I'll post more as it gets nearer, but if
you're anywhere near Portland, you should not miss it, as this could be the last
meet I host!

Terry in Orygone

Go to that meet if you can ... I've been a couple of times and nothing but great people ... all old vans are good vans and Pick Ups too ... Terry likes wearing his Pith Helmet ... likely because the seagulls are BIG in Portland ... lol

Just talked to Ted, who is coming down from Woodinville with his econo-pickup. My buddy Rodney (he's bringing his awesome full custom '65 econo "Knight in White Satin") and I are meeting up with Ted and his pals in the Caravan at the Poodle Dog resturaunt in Fife at 7 am. All vans are welcome! Ted says we may have as many as 7-8 vans so far. If you're in western WA state, get down here for this Sunday. Should be a blast!

Looking foreward to this see you all tomorrow! Bill

Yup ... go man go! My ersatz Pops a great guy ... if I am half the man he is at his age ... I'll still be twice the person of most ...

What a great show! Sunday Morning bright and early we met at the Poodle Dog in Fife, WA... 6 rigs: 3 econoline trucks and 3 vans. It was great to meet Ted and all his econoline buddies. Some great guys for sure. We all hooked up to prepare for the for the 2 hour drive south.



Alex from Burien showed up with his radical 8-door mystery machine with the killer raked stance!! He said he just got it finished and running only a week ago and he had just happened to see my post over at vannin.com about this show... so he met us at the Poodle Dog.


Alex's van is badass. It has a fuel injected 5.0 and an AOD overdrive transmission.



He has done alot of detailed work to this awesome van and he built the zoomies himself... which sound killer!




We also met another vanner named Sean who showed up at the Poodle Dog just to say hello. Sean is from bremerton and has a couple A100 vans. Sean, it was great meeting you and we can't wait for you to get one of your vans happening and on the road. Next run, we want your van with us!! Let me know and we'll come over and help you wrench and get that thing runnin!



So we all rolled out and headed down the freeway to Portland. I snapped this cool shot of Rodney's white knight van and the mystery machine along side of a killer blown street rod that was cruising with us for a little while.



The Bustin Loose Early Vans rolling convoy stopped at a rest area:



Alex's mystery machine rolling on I-5



Our club Patch! Anyone else in the puget sound area who wants to join Bustin Loose early vans let me know!

We got to the show and it really was a great turn-out! I didn't really count but I think there were at least 40 earlies total... with a mix of vans and van-up trucks. All econolines except for my chevy and also Bills66 chevy. I was glad to see at least one other non-ford early van. next time we need a couple more Chevy or Dodge vans to come out!

Interior shot of Bills66's van


Me, Bills66, and Rodney (one of the original founders of Bustin' Loose Early Vans). It was great to meet Bill. What a genuinely nice guy. We were instant pals... but no wonder why, we're both hardcore Vintage Chevy Vanners!


Rodney, Me, and Alex standing in front of Rod's '65 "knight in White Satin" as we are paying homage to Rodney's vintage circa 1978 Bustin' Loose club jacket. We are all stoked and honored to be resurrecting Bustin' Loose as a van club and to get vanning going again in the Northwest!!


Portland's "Last Regiment of Syncopated Drummers" put on a great show:








Just one of the many Disney theme glass etchings that was on every window of one of the econoline vans:

Thanks for posting..That sure looks like a great event indeed. Great looking rides all of them.

I'm not able to open the photo's. am i the only one?????

hmmm, they look ok here.

try this link to my photo hosting page:

http://turboninjas.com/gallery/FriendsHosting/kookykrispy/econoNW+2012/

hopefully you can view the pics directly there.