10-4 Magazine November 2021

Truck Show Report: By Frank Strohmyer The Ohio Vintage Truck Reunion is always a fun show with a great turnout and cool stuff, year after year – and this year was no different. Held at the Ashland County Fairgrounds in Ashland, OH on June 19-20, 2021, this event is hosted by several different chapters of the ATHS, including the Black Swamp Chapter, Penn-Ohio Chapter, Central Ohio Chapter, Northeast Chapter, and the Greater Cincinnati Chapter. This show features a large display of vintage trucks, a swap meet, a trucking memorabilia display, a truck light display, a truck model building contest, a “Country Convoy” dinner cruise, and more. Heading down to the show on Saturday morning, June 19th, it rained on me for most of the way down. After the rain eventually cleared, the temp’s settled in the mid-80s with plenty of humidity. Then, with the threat of rain coming back again in the evening, some guys left early and did not stick around for the Country Convoy. This “Country Convoy” is a group of trucks that get together, ride through the countryside, and head to an Amish restaurant called Der Dutchmen in Bellville, OH (they have really good food there). Sunday, June 20th, had some early morning showers and thunderstorms, but they cleared out around 11:00 AM. After that, the temps were in the upper-80s. The trucking memorabilia display featured some very cool stuff to look at like trucking music albums, brochures of various truck manufacturers, old truck magazines, a display of belt buckles, and a truck patch collection of trucking companies, past and present, and truck builders. The swap meet is held in another building and basically has old truck parts, truck books, and other trucking-related memorabilia. In this same area, they had some old copies of 10-4 Magazine, but you had to get there fast, because they didn’t last long. In another building there are vendors selling model truck kits, along with neat die-cast toy trucks and trailers. A model truck building contest was held in another one of the buildings. This was a great display of models and the boxes they came in, as well as some resin offerings by certain makers. There were three categories – youth, novice, and expert. In the Youth category, the winner was Bryan Lorentz with his black W900 Aerodyne AMT 1/32 scale kit. In the Novice category, the winner was Charles Helman and his 1/16 scale Kenworth W900 flattop with a Fruehauf flatbed trailer. The winner in the Expert category was Jon Minard and his 1964 68 10-4 Magazine / November 2021 FUN WITH OLD TRUCKS