Keys photo thread

[Dicktator]

More Chuckster pictures.

1. Little shuffle board for Doug and Margo
2. Bob/BSTPAPA and Friend
3. Annie and Jolie, who we owe many Thanks for such a Great Keys Run.
4. Annie accepting a handmade wooden plaque of an SSR with "Waysouth6speed" carved into it. Made by Mike in Canada. Just awesome!
5. Ed/Rebel excepting the Long Distance Award for Train Travel.

[REBEL]

REBEL’s CHOICE while at the Key’s run
And the winner is... for the first ever “REBEL’s Choice” award.
Mr. and Ms. JIM FOX of Naples, Fl; and Winter Park, CO.
It is a beautiful clean, cosmetically altered, 06 Pac Blue - 6 speed.
When I walked thru the Key West parking lot for this award, this truck jumped out at me.
Pac blue with a stick, what a great start. Then clean gold leaf and pin striping added just enough to make it stand out, without going overboard. Please check this truck out when you get a chance.
Help me Congratulation Jim and his wife on a beautiful ride. This is one of two that they own.
Pictures of the Truck are here.... REBEL’s CHOICE while at the Key’s run

[HotRodGirl]

Capturing SSR's on U.S. 1 returning from Duval Street We were standing by

[REBEL]

If you stop to think…
Annie had a 4 million dollar parade heading into Key West.
All those trucks at a average 50K

[LTs SSR]

Funny... a guy pulled up next to us at a stop light... said "They didn't make too many of those. Are they all here in the Keys?"

[Buffalo]

Originally Posted by LTs SSR

Funny... a guy pulled up next to us at a stop light... said "They didn't make too many of those. Are they all here in the Keys?"

[RUN ROD RUN]

Originally Posted by LTs SSR

Funny... a guy pulled up next to us at a stop light... said "They didn't make too many of those. Are they all here in the Keys?"

[SSRRose]

I am even more jealous seeing the pictures. We had a "wonderful" weekend packing boxes. It's going pretty well, we are about 2/3 of the way packed. We've hired an auction company to sell the stuff we aren't moving. We plan to be back in The Villages on Dec 1. Our Georgia house is suppose to close Dec 7.

Joan

[RaticalSSR]

Originally Posted by SSRRose

I am even more jealous seeing the pictures. We had a "wonderful" weekend packing boxes. It's going pretty well, we are about 2/3 of the way packed. We've hired an auction company to sell the stuff we aren't moving. We plan to be back in The Villages on Dec 1. Our Georgia house is suppose to close Dec 7.

Joan

Very nice community. We stopped there on our way back form the Keys. My wife sister lives there now. Gave us a quick tour around there and was quite impressed. You should really enjoy it there. Good luck
Doug & Margo

[RUN ROD RUN]

Great pictures & thanks for sharing with all of us.

REBEL & RaticalSSR, Don't either of you two have pictures of your SSR being loaded or unloaded from the train?

[REBEL]

well yes RRR

The train holds 600 people and 300 cars or bikes.

10 to a covered train car, 5 up 5 down (ramps are moved to load upper section)

Train cars are loaded 5 at a time, cars run thru train cars from 1 to 5. like a long tube.
then the 5 train car sections are hooked together and attatched behind passenger train cars.

Top speed is 70mph and the train is 3/4 mile long

Bikes are tied down on carts then the carts are loaded.

[REBEL]

I did have a small surprise when she drove back off the train.
We called AAA for a rollback and off to Firestone we went. I had a new spare valve steam and they reseated the tire bead and balanced it. After a 3hr delay and 36$, off we went to the keys.

Do not know what happened, it drove on with tires up. They did drive the cars o.k.
At the tire store there was nothing in the tire just loss of nitrogen. (they had two of my 18" grabbers in stock)

So it has just air in it now but that got me to the party and home.

Still waiting to see if any sidewall damage occured from driving it off train flat.

((These knock off wheels are on tight even after I used never seize.))

[turnheadz]

I sure wish we had a train like that on this side

[ttarob]

Lots of great photos!! It was a real blast being on this run, made lots of new friends, met TONS of cool people, saw a great place, the turtle hospital was a unbelievable place to see and meet the people working there, and to see what they do!!
A very large hug of thanks to the keys organizers for the amazing job they did!!!!

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by turnheadz

I sure wish we had a train like that on this side

and one or two running East/West!!! with mid country stops.

[river_rat]

Our Keys Run was a little extended on the front and back and have too many pictures. Culled out a subset that may be of interest in the next few posts. Hopefully I don't bore y'all, maybe thaw out some of the northerner's that couldn't make it.

1. The Armadillo with O'YLR in tow along with assorted toys headed to Florida
2. Infield at Daytona Intl Speedway flanking the road coarse near Turn 1 tunnel
3. Several Hot laps on our bikes entering Turn 2, we maybe topped 15 mph
4. Crossing the Finish line
5. O'YLR still on the trailer at KSC - Cape Canaveral

[river_rat]

More photos of our great Florida visit

1. Visiting Vehicle Assembly Building @ KSC
2. Space shuttle Atlantis in its new home
3. Kayaking in Everglades NP off of Flamingo
4. Sunset at Flamingo
5. Distance post at Key West

[river_rat]

More pics

1. Ft Jefferson at the Dry Tortugas NP 70 miles off of Key West
2. Parking at Chesapeake Resort - opening night dinner
3. More R's at Chesapeake opening night
4. Sunset at Chesapeake dinner
5. Opening night dinner

Y'all bored yet? Have a few more

[LTs SSR]

Fabulous pics!!

[river_rat]

Alright, no complaints, so here are the last 2 sets of pics I have to post.

1. The herd on their way to Key West. Monroe County Sheriff's cruiser in the middle of the pack making sure everyone was on their best behavior.
2. Bight parking lot at Key West (Slingshot yellow wins - outnumbered the other colors)
3. Drawing a crowd
4. Southernmost point
5. Milemarker 0 Hwy 1

[dingbat]

Hmmmm Someone had their shirt on backwards.

[river_rat]

Last set. Before anyone asks, the little yellow bunny is a stuffed "Peep" that our nephew gave us. As an ongoing spoof, we treat it like the Flat Stanley he sent us when he was in grade school.

1. RV Park in Marathon (Grassy Key). What a view out the windshield to wake up to...
2. Sandspur Beach at Bahia Honda SP
3. Sunset at the Loreli dinner
4. Sunrise at Sanibel Beach on the way home
5. Last night in Florida at beautiful Henderson SP in Destin

[river_rat]

Originally Posted by dingbat

Hmmmm Someone had their shirt on backwards.

Yep and she knew it but liked the map on the front with her layered outfit. She'll get a kick out of the fact that you noticed.

[Gina]

Originally Posted by river_rat

More photos of our great Florida visit

1. Visiting Vehicle Assembly Building @ KSC
2. Space shuttle Atlantis in its new home
3. Kayaking in Everglades NP off of Flamingo
4. Sunset at Flamingo
5. Distance post at Key West

I love to Kayak, Awesome!

[RaticalSSR]

Here are a few I had taken

[RaticalSSR]

Some more

[river_rat]

Look how beautiful, serene, and neatly kept Chesapeake Resort was before it was decended upon by all them WILD fanatics. How about that super yacht in Ratical's last pic.

[ATLMike]

Looks like you guys had a blast.


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[240 Gordy]

Here's some more pics, this is just the start I'm sure as there are folks from California that probably won't be back til tommorrow.









I'm sure if you look closely you will see yourself!

[ttarob]

Originally Posted by 240 Gordy

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I'm sure if you look closely you will see yourself!

Looks good Gordido !!