When The Mother Road Was In Her Prime Two Kingman Kids Took It All In

 January 26, 2026

   Some memories hang in the brain like an old wound.

Daily Whip Out:"'58 Chevy Barreling Down Stockton Hill Roadat Dusk"
   Dim light at night is a thing I seek to render. I actually witnessed this very scene in the rearview mirror of my '57 Merc' back in 1964. I believe Grover Thomas was driving the Chevy and we were heading out to the Quarter Mile on north Stockton Hill Road (about where Kingman Regional Hospital is now) to see Billy Logas drag race some miscreants from Boulder City.   Billy blew their doors off, of course.   Meanwhile, another hotrod Kingman kid, Dan The Man, is hard at work on Classic Road Trips on old Route 66, this time for the magazine. Since we grew up there we have an obligation to set things right on how it actually was when the Mother Road was in her prime. And, I am happy to say, we have 18 pages to prove our point.   Now back to the camels on the cover. Over the weekend I brushed in a new dust storm background.

   But I think that's a tad too red and too raw. Let me see if I can tone that down a smidge. . .

Daily Whip Out: "Beale Camel Corps Final"   And, here is how Dan The Man applicated that dust up to the cover.

Beale Is The Real Raw Deal

   See, this keeps us off the streets.
"Leisure without study is death."—Old Vaquero Saying