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Getaway: hot ticket
By Times staff
© St. Petersburg Times
published October 10, 2002
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Vintage street rods roar into Tampa
The NSRA, which puts on a series of Street Rod Nationals events across the country, finishes the season in Tampa this weekend with a show featuring more than 1,300 vehicles, all originally built before 1949. Expect to see lots of bright paint, chrome and imagination on display.
The event also includes a vintage parts swap meet, merchandise exhibits and arts and crafts. Gates are open 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, Florida State Fairgrounds, U.S. 301 off Interstate 4, Tampa. Tickets, available at the gate, are $10 for adult and $3 for ages 6 to 12. Enter via U.S. 301 or Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. (813) 621-7821.
All aboard, model train aficionados
H&R Trains in Pinellas Park draws enthusiasts year-round, but for three days every October and March, the venerable store on U.S. 19 unleashes a railroading extravaganza.
Under giant tents, there will be train layouts of all sorts, including Michael LaDrigue's Z scale display, which he is carefully setting up, above. The annual competition begins at 6 p.m. Friday. Representatives from Brio, Playmobil, Bachmann, Badger Airbrush and more will be on hand. How-to seminars, special sales and prize giveaways will take place all weekend.
The show runs 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday at the store, 6901 U.S. 19 N, Pinellas Park. (727) 526-4682 or www.hrtrains.com.
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