HERE IS MY FIRST CONTACT WITH RALPH TALE....
AT A JUNE CC>CC CONVENTION, CURT SQUIRES & I SHARED A DEALERS TABLE.
RALPH CAME BY OUR TABLE, WE STARTED CHATTING....AFTER A FEW MINUTES, I KNEW THIS HOTROD "GUY" WAS ONORIE, STUBBORN, BLUNT, IN YOUR FACE KINDA GUY.
I HATED HIM ASAP!, BUT YET HE REMINDED ME OF SOMEONE I KNEW!!!
I WAS ABOUT TO ASK HIM TO GET THE HECK OUT OF MY TABLE.......BUT THEN IT HIT ME!!!
I KNEW WHO THIS HOTROD RALPH MYERS REMINDED ME OF......
THE ANSWER WAS......ME!!!!!
IT WAS LIKE LOOKING IN A MIRROR! OF COURSE, HE'S TALLER THEN ME, WHITE, BUT YET NOT HANDSOME, JUST LIKE ME!!
RALPH AND I WERE BOTH GRUMPY OLD FART SENIORS!!!!
THEN TWO YEARS AGO THIS ALL CHANGED.
WE MET AT THE JUNE CONVENTION:
AT FIRST, RALPH CAME UP TO ME AND GREETED ME WITH A BIGGER THAN LIFE SMILE, A BIG BELLOWING "ALOHA Q!',
AND A FIRM WARM HANDSHAKE!
I WAS TAKEN A BACK. I SAID TO THIS SLIM, SMILING JOLLY MAN, "SORRY I DON'T KNOW WHO THE HELL YOU ARE."
HE SAID, PHOTOGRAPHER Q, THIS IS RALPH!
I SAID, WHAT DID YOU DO WITH HOTROD??? IN JESS.
HE LOOKED GREAT! AND THAT CHIN TO CHIN SMILE WAS BLINDING. HE WAS SHINING BRIGHT!!
HE SAID HE LOST OVER 40 POUNDS.
ALL DURING THAT JUNE CONVENTION, RALPH WOULD JUMP IN AND PHOTO-BOMB ALL MY SHOTS.
HE WAS LIKE A LITTLE KID WHO JUST GOT HIS FIRST KISS!
PLEASE POST YOUR HOTROD MYERS FIRST CONTACT AND STORIES.
"KEEP ON TRUCKING HOTROD!"
AH HUI HOU & OLOKE MALUNA,
Quintin Kamm