47-59 2022 Bickleton WA car show/community day

[mr48chev]

I made the treck up the hill to Bickleton WA For their community day and car show. It is car show, community day, down town yard sale/flea market and some of the best home made pies on the face of the earth.

It was the first time seeing this panel for me, I don't know if it is a fresh truck or if it just hasn't been where I have been.


Bickleton is due south of where I am at in Toppenish but you have to drive a little over 50 miles to get there by going to Mabton and then up over the hill until you are on top of the Horse Heaven hills .

The guy with the panel said that it had 37 Chevy taillights.

I got my smugmug album put together and have it here. Not near as many cars and trucksas usual but some nice ones. https://robertdavison.smugmug.com/20...-community-day

[mr48chev]

One last shot of the panel and then we have the Orange 54. It has some interesting tricks including a later dash and the nicely installed fuel filler door.

I've got a couple more shoots of it in the next batch.

For 5 extra bonus points what was the wrong photo that I posted of? Before I edited it.

[mr48chev]

A couple of more of the orange one.

i've posted the Green one many times before and for more than one reason. First it is one of the nicest driven a lot AD trucks in the PNW. This truck gets more miles put on it in a month than some guys who claim that they drive their truck a lot put on in a year. The paint job is over 10 years old and it will hold it''s own along the best of them in any show. That is if the owner felt like detailing it and cleaning off every bug. He is past that point but it is still a fantastic truck.

[mr48chev]

Now what's not to love about a TF big window that is seriously nice.

[mr48chev]

A bit of TF outside mirror discussion and then we get down to the Maroon GMC.

Note the before photo sitting on the engine.

[mr48chev]

More of the GMC. Study this seat folks, this is one that fits and looks right and is not an afterthought. For a modern seat this is as good as it gets in an AD truck.

[mr48chev]

Some not 47/59. A couple of nice young guys had the 4x4 out for show and tell and it is a nice one, obviously driven daily and not a detailed show rig but a seriously nice truck.

The Model A sedan is a whole lot nicer car than your brain sees at first glance, well built an sporting a Jag V12 that was detailed out to the max. That one might be hard to hang with on the long roads.

Then we have about as nice of a Chevelle SS as you want to see.

[mr48chev]

Can't forget the Studebaker boom truck. That is no doubt a driven in there and parked rig that could probably still do what it was built for with a few days of tinkering.

A pretty decent looking patina blazer sitting next to a friend of mine's booth. He has an auto parts store and Uhaul outlet on the east side of Grandview Wa and it is an old school we have paper books parts house.

The Chevy flatbed is his with his son in law's door magnets on it.

Mr Jackson along with having a produce truck has been working for an outfit bulding a solar farm outside of Bicketon. One of the nicest people I have met lately and he said if I took his photo he would give me some donut peaches for peaches and Ice cream tonight. Done deal.

I did mention pie, as I got there a bit late and then took photos rather than head straight for pie and coffee which I should have done the pickings were skimpy when I got there and the Huckelberry, apple and cherry were gone. There were two slices of Pinapple pie left and this is the first time in my 75 years that I ever age Pineapple pie. The pie crust rivals my grandmother's pie crust and someone may have gotten her secret recipie. I don't regret missing the huckelberry.

[mr48chev]

They had a live band for entertainment, Kind of bluegrass country.

If you google Bickleton Wa you will find that they have a Studebaker museum, a carousel museum and are most famous for the bluebirds that migrate to the area to nest and raise their young every year. There are bluebird houses on fence posts all around the area.

The last two photos are of some metal art that was pretty interesting most of it being made with horse shoes. I'd make my son and daughter inlaw a couple of similar pieces but she is a better welder than either of us are.

[mr48chev]

The last two shots are ones I took along the road between Mabton and Bickleton. A ranch that defies age and a pair of silos that define the area pretty well as the Horse Heavens are the home of a number of wheat farms that total in the hundreds of thousands of acres.

Now a good part of the region is under irrigation and is now the home of 15,500 acres of wine grapes and thousands of acres of corn and potatos, carrots (a lot of baby carrots come from the horse heaven hills i the bag says Mercer ranches). Plus other row crops.

[nvrdone]

I am so looking forward to the move to Moxee and seeing the "Dry Side" of WA>
Always appreciate the great pictures. Thanks.

[8man]

Nice event, thanks for sharing pictures.

[CG]

These are the kind of events I want to go to when we are both retired. Finding out about these kind of things only seem to happen after the shows are over when someone posts pictures =)

[mr48chev]

I didn't do the loop yesterday but I usually make a loop that goes from my place to Mabton, to Bickleton, then to Goldendale for a late lunch and back to Toppenish.

It's a route that a lot of motor cycle groups do as the road between Mabton and Goldendale is a fun one for bikes with the bonus of a stop at the Bluebird Cafe in Bickleton.

The Concours de Maryhill aka the Maryhill museum car show is coming up on the first of October. It runs in conjunction with the annual Maryhill Hill climb on what was originally the first paved road in the state. It's the event where I met Hogfarm and there are always some very interesting cars, the museum is open and usually the entry fee for the show comes with ticket for the museum. Great scenery, several well known wineries close by and it is a very laid back event even with the fancy name. http://www.goldendalemotorsports.org...e-Maryhill.php

[hogfarm]

I plan on going to Maryhill this year, missed it last year

[mr48chev]

I plan on running up there for at least a couple of hours. About the only thing that may be an issue for me is if my son and daughter in law decide to come in from Idaho that weekend. Then it might be a real short trip to Maryhill for me.