Holton Secret Lab Blog Is Moving

Hi everyone! I wanted to let you know that we have moved our blog from Google to Word Press. That means that our Holton Secret Lab Blog is now on our web site www.holtonsecretlab.com. 

I will leave this blog up for a month or so and then will shut it down. Our new web site has a Blog button on the header.....just click the button and it will take you to our HSL blog and also to Hot Rod Cowgirl's blog. 

I am working with Kristen, our web guru in California,  http://nine2fivecreative.com/ ,on updating our web site. I am on a learning curve as she is training me to keep the web site up to date with pictures, car shows and awards, events and etc. The next few weeks I will be preparing over 100 pictures to add the various customer vehicles we have restored to the Portfolio page. If any of you that are reading this have some pictures to add to your portfolio on our web page please email them to me and I will upload them to your vehicle. 

With all that said....this blog is now located on our web site www.holtonsecretlab.com 

See you on down the road!

www.holtonsecretlab.com 

Hotrod Cowgirl!

Hey all....we have a second blog up and running...

http://hotrodcowgirl.wordpress.com/

This is a blog more about our life together and some of it is also Marcy's life growing up.

Between cattle, horses, wheat...hot rods...memories...life.

I am a Hot Rod Cowgirl...and love this Corvette!

I married a Cowboy Hot Rodder...and we are building our dreams together!

So go take a look...

Hot Rods and Horses!

Wild Bill and Hot Rod Cowgirl at the coast.

http://hotrodcowgirl.wordpress.com/

Mission Impossible.....Parts Delivery At HSL

Today Was Parts Delivery Day At Holton Secret Lab...

"Peter" (Graves) Flew The Plane Today With "Tom" (Cruise) As Co-Pilot..

Should You Accept This Mission....You Must

Do So With Utmost Attention To Detail...HSL Policy

Flying Over HSL To Secure The Target To Begin Package Drop

The "Lab" Is Secure

"Annie" Is Waiting For Her Package Pick Up...She May Look Like A Horse...But She Is A Trained Special OPS Agent...Don't Make Her Mad!

 Any "Mission Of Perfection" Takes A Few Fly Overs To Deliver
Packages To "The Secret Lab"

The "Godfather" of HSL Is Waiting For The Drop...

Dialing In The GPS Coordinates...In The "Gray Ghost"

Super Invisible In The Wheat!

Proof That "Holton Secret Lab Does Quality Restorations"

Anything Can Happen On A Summer Night At HSL

It Is "Your Mission" To Come See Us

Bring Your Dream Car Or Your Hot Rod Restoration To Holton Secret Lab And

Your Mission Is Complete....This Brief Will Self Destruct In 5 Minutes

Over and Out
www.holtonsecretlab.com 

Horsepower And Horse Power...Both Kinds!

As you know we have "Horse Power"..."Catahoola Bug's"...first ride...that is why I am so serious...

And we have "Horsepower" at HSL

Zoom Zoom "Horsepower" 

"Horsepower" or "Horse Power" both ways...note "Horse Power" in background

 Horses that know what to do with 100% "Horse Power"

And some riders..."Flame" wondering where and what to do?

HSL "Horsepower" at the Portland Roadster Show 

Or just plain "Nitrous Horsepower"

Back to the Juniper T...Curt making a big loop 

On a summer's night with "Horse Power"

"Ba-Boom-Ba-Boom...HSL Horsepower"

Outrageous "Chevelle Horsepower"

Annie will demonstrate how horses take a bath with "Horse Power".

First of all....as soon as your master brushes you and gets you all pretty....you drop and roll in a dry dusty spot in the pasture

Then you get up and shake

"Chic A Boom Chic A Boom...Shaking the Annie Fanny"

Feels so good...oh yeah

Nice and clean...beautiful

Annie you are a knock out!

"Holton Secret Lab Horsepower"...Zoom Zoom:)

Ah "Flame"....what are you doing??? 

"Flame" will never forgive me for publishing this picture...WB paid his wife 5 bucks for this picture...truly "Flames" secret love is riding horses with "Horse Power"!

Come see us as HSL and we will develop and fine tune your "Horsepower"

Hotrods, Harvest and Horses

First of all..."Jagged" is more finished and looking extremely cool.

Did I mention that "WB" built this car by hand with his creative mind and his artistic ability.

I am very proud of him!

Wild Bill hanging loose

He is a My Hotrod Cowboy

Who still makes my heart beat fast...either inside the car or out.

Side note on inside the car...ask Richard who owns the Willy's...hee-hee...sorry Richard:)

Yep he knows what I live with...and why we have "Oh Sh--" handles in our Hotrods for me!

Bad to the bone..."Jagged" is one of a kind.

1929 Dodge Coupe with a V-12 Jag engine

Outrageous!

On any given day at HSL you will see...Cool Cars

Cool Dreams

Cool Hotrods

 1956 or 2011?

At HSL we have time warps all the time!

The Gang...Snarling Snapping Wonders Who Won't Trust Anyone But Us:)

We have a great security system but they are our second security system...go ahead and make their day....they are always hungry...seriously!

Ms. Diva decided to stretch out on her coffee table...she owns everything 
and we work for her!

July of 2011 is very unusual that we are having this type of weather...cool...rainy...windy...harvest is pretty much postponed until August.
Usually we are starting harvest now!

See the wheat field behind Annie?

It should look like this for July ready to harvest with heavy golden heads of wheat. I know this is dated...it was 1987 when we used to harvest our land and run "Holton Restorations". (We became "Holton Secret Lab" in 2004). Yes it was a bad hair day..my hair was long then and in a ponytail...son on the left was 13 and son on the right was 15...Wild Bill was...very young...really young...and me well I was a child bride!

This would be a baby combine in 2011 but in 1987 it was top notch...we name our cars and trucks...first truck is called "Big Bertha" and the little truck behind her was called "Betsy". I will do a post on our vehicle names in the future!

This is now and yes we have bigger headers...seriously huge!

We took this picture to show that we have steep ground. Yes that is Wild Bill...For you who do not understand hillside combines they have a leveler that keeps the bulk of the machine level while the header tilts with the ground etc. as does the hydraulics. Being a farm girl and growing up driving truck in harvest...I have seen a leveler break...then the bulker and heavy part of the combine tilts crazy...hang on and say a prayer that it does not roll...jump as soon as you can.

Personally myself being so brave and all...I liked driving our wheat trucks...here are my three kids in back of my truck in the 1980's. When you are a farm kid it is fun to ride in the back of the truck and make wheat gum...stuff a handful of wheat seeds in your mouth and make gum! Why? I don't know but it is truly a country kid tradition...they say that some adults yet do this...who....well I don't know???

The kiddos with their Dad....Wild Bill...in 1979.

Switching gears to harvesting cars instead of wheat...it is way more fun!

Look what we found in our field!

I love love this Ford Pick Up...used to be mine:(

And I love this 1955 Chevy Pick Up

And this Bronco is incredible!

Back to the 1935 Ford Pick Up...my Grandpa owned one of the first Ford 
dealerships in the Northwest...

I love our Chevy "Bowtie" cars and I LOVE Corvettes...but I appreciate Fords too!

Rural America...hard work...long days...all worth the way of life here.

Another reason we have our incredible shop here instead of a huge city in CA. or Portland or Seattle...We chose to live here as this is our home...and our shop is worth your gas miles to drive to...if you want the best...we are worth a few extra miles...come see us.

Now on to horses.....

I loved "Hobby"...She had a huge heart and was part of mine.

I was born country and that's what I'll always be.

I got a hundred years of down home running through my blood.

I was born country and this country's what I love.

Family ties run deep in this land.
And I'm never far from what I am.
My Uncles and cousins...son Greg is the squirmy one.
See if you can pick out "Wild Bill"...hint...cowboy:)

Minnie is giving me the look....I better get back to work!

Melody is really a person in a horse costume and 

She truly would like to live with us in the house!

Kiah is so pretty with my red PEO flowers...she is keeping an eye on the camera and me!

Annie is looking down the road at "Jagged".

See ya on down the country trail

Till next time...hang on tight to your "Oh Sh-- handle and smile"

Yes it rained more tonight....still hoping for Summer!