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Kearney Cruise Night Proves It Will Take More Than A Pandemic To Keep Hot Rods In The Garage!


Kearney Cruise Night Proves It Will Take More Than A Pandemic To Keep Hot Rods In The Garage!

(Words and Photos by Scott Liggett) Photos continue! The town of Kearney Nebraska and the Central Nebraska Auto Club (CNAC) have been putting on Cruise Nite for 32 years. The event started out as cruising around town on the Saturday night. It has expanded over the years to encompass events Tuesday through Sunday of the third week of July. With show n shines, an classic car auction, and even a parade to all of the assisted living living homes in town. And, of course cruising on the main highway through town all Saturday night.

People come into town from all over the area, and often stay the whole week. Kearney fills up with hot rods, muscle cars, and classics. Thanks to Covid-19, the original date in July was just not possible. But, the show organizers of the CNAC couldn’t just cancel it all together this year. So, they postponed the event to this past week, mid-October.

Many people thought the show goer numbers would suffer thanks to the later date, Covid still around, kids back in school, etc. And, October in Central Nebraska can get you any kind of weather imaginable from sweltering heat to blizzards. The numbers were down just a little bit from 2019, but the result was still fantastic. The CNAC pulled off another great event, or events.

Check out the pictures Scott Liggett got for us from the big Saturday show and shine on The Bricks of downtown Kearney.


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2020 FE Race And Reunion Gallery: From Run Of The Mill To Overkill


2020 FE Race And Reunion Gallery: From Run Of The Mill To Overkill

(Photos: Joe Grippo) At the small end, they were a 330-cubic inch truck motor. At the far end, you have some of Ford’s finest hours, the 427, the Cammer and the 428. You could’ve had one in the lowest-rent Edsel you could find or you could’ve ponied up the dough at the counter of your nearest dealership by ordering C6AE-6007-359J for $2,350. Whether you had a work truck that was plugging along with the old reliable 390 or you had an R-code Fairlane or Shelby’s wicked-tune Cobra. the Ford FE mill was one for the history books. Originally designed for Ford and Edsel applications, the modified Y-block design was the engine that Ford went to war with. They fought Chrysler for NASCAR superiority. They fought anybody who dared try on dragstrips. They went sports car racing with the Cobra, and when Hank the Deuce saw red mist, it was the weapon he used against the Italians at their own game.

The last FE was put into a production vehicle in 1976. After that, it was big-block Limas and small-blocks until 1998, when the Mod Motor and the Triton V10 took over.  Our man Joe Grippo was swimming in a sea of like-mided folk as he roamed Beaver Springs Dragway for the 2020 FE Race and Reunion, and he brought back plenty of photos to share of his trip. Check out more from the show by clicking on a photo below!


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