DAMN YANKEES SUMMER SLAM

The Damn Yankees show is one of those events that betrays its hot rod/custom roots as it kicks off so early, with cars streaming in from 8.30am, even as traders are setting up and lazy journalists are arriving to cover the event. This year’s event was blessed with warm, occasionally sunny weather and that meant an exceptional turn-out of vehicles.

Busy polishing his fresh-out-of-the-paint-shop was sprayer Jim Read, who’d done