Turbo Teds Tour de SHEDD

[ted heaton]

Turbo Teds Tour de SHEDD
On a 9 day, 2 Datsun meets tour.
Blue Lake Datsun show today.
4 day Northern Oregon loop tour
2 day SHEDD Roadster BBQ.
1 day Mid Oregon coastal mts drive
Return on the day of the solar eclipse.

Sunday Aug 13. Bellevue WA to Redmond OR. 341 miles

Great Blue Lake Show today. 120+ Datsuns. 11 roadsters!. 5 from the Seattle area. AND A Roadster got BEST OF SHOW.
Ted, Ted Jr, Dan and new guy Adam(GREEN! roadster) with son Avery drove down together. Pebbles trailered!
A bit of mist on the way but no real rain. Dry at Blue Lake.
The usual good BBQ lunch and plenty of random prizes.
Joe R - 1st high windshield AND BEST OF SHOW!!
Mark Anderson - 2nd high windshield.
Ted. 1st low windshield
Adam. 2nd low windshield.

Drove to Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood on the way East to Redmond.

Ted

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[RBMann]

Keep the photos coming.

[AC77]

Ted, thanks for inviting me to join you on the first part of your tour. The mist we endured driving to Blue Lake was fierce

[ted heaton]

Monday Aug 14. Redmond OR to Baker City OR. 330 miles

Drove into the center of Solar Eclipse "nuttiness".
Wonderful empty secondary roads all across N central OR.
There are still MEATLOAF Sandwiches at POST OR. Geographic center of Oregon!.
No bird strikes but did capture a batch/swarm of grasshoppers/locusts that attacked my grille.

Ted

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[RBMann]

Cool pics Ted. The wife and I ran into a herd of butterflies near Ukiah on the motorcycles. I felt bad as I like butterflies.

[ted heaton]

Tuesday Aug 15. Baker City OR to Walla Walla WA. 336 miles. Great weather. Only one bird and one tumbleweed strike.
East from Baker City around the Wallowa Mts on the Hells Canyon Scenic route to Joseph/Enterprise.
Then N on Hwy 3 to Clarkston and West to Walla Walla.
Wonderful open, very low traffic roads.

Ted

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[pebbles]

49 ford shoebox barn find. Neat.

[ted heaton]

Wednesday Aug 16. Walla Walla to Redmond OR 391 miles.
More great Northern Oregon roads.
Stopped in Fossil and one of the few remaining really small town car dealers was still going strong.
WRIGHT Chevrolet with a 1950s era building and a 1 car showroom.
Plenty of Chev trucks in the lot behind.
Also in Fossil is the Fossil Auto Body shop where Stan used to work.

Ted

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[shawnj82]

Thanks for all the pictures. I love getting off the main roads in this area and really taking in the sights. Hell's canyon is an amazing sight either from the road, a jet boat, or from the air. I'm just half an hour north of Clarkston. I wish I knew you were driving by, so I could have made the trip down just to see a couple roadsters drive by. I'm a new owner and I'm not sure I'm doing it right yet

Shawn

[msampsel]

Good to see these photos. Also, it looks like the smoke which plagued OR and WA ~two weeks ago subsided which is good.

[Gregs672000]

Good to see these photos. Also, it looks like the smoke which plagued OR and WA ~two weeks ago subsided which is good.

Ya, it was terrible... we did a lot of driving during that time. I kept thinking "it will burn off" and then would correct myself that that was the problem! It's not cloud cover! It was so bad we could not see Mt Rainier, and there was no escape... Cascades, the Olympics on the peninsula, western WA, eastern WA... terrible. Saw Rainier for the first time in weeks on tuesday when we went to Mt Baker (so excited to do this drive, then discovered the road was closed during the week... bummer!). I think that is the worst I have ever seen for as long as I have ever seen it. Glad it's gone!

[ted heaton]

Thursday Aug 17. Redmond OR to Shedd OR. 278 miles.
Did some 320 truck business then toured the Newbury Crater NM.
To Shedd by 5 and had a great salmon and crab dinner with about 10 early Shedd BBQ arrivals.
Ted

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[ted heaton]

Friday. Aug 18 SHEDD OR.

Good Pre SHEDD BBQ day.
Got awnings, tables and chairs set up for 90 Roadster folks
2 AM drives. 4 roadsters went for lunch at a local brewery.
4 roadsters did a 3 hr 100 mile tour of 5 local covered bridges.
By evening many more roadsters had arrived for a great dinner. 19 roadsters!. 7 camping tents up.

Ted

[ladydriver]

The Turbo Teds have a great roadtrip. Good to see a nice Shedd island. Like the the dustdevil plate, good job Pebbles! Great turn out for the Neals.

[ted heaton]

Saturday Aug 19. SHEDD ROADSTER BBQ
SUPER Record turnout today. 47 roadsters!!!
Great 90 mile loop drive at 11. Back by 2 for the 2017 SHEDD Roadster Garage photo.
Then a Fine BBQ at 3.
Weather was beautiful with no "elcipsers" clogging the roads.

Ted