Matt, Ross, and Roy Kenseth will be sign autographs at the Grand Re-Opening of the Oak Creek, Wis., Blain’s Farm & Fleet store on Thursday, October 22, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. This store is in the Milwaukee area.

Those interested in autographs will receive a number when they enter the store. Numbers will be announced over the store’s paging system. When a customer hears their number, they can come to the designated area where their number will be verified and they will be allowed into the line for autographs. Each customer will be asked to limit their autographs to one each from the G3 guys.

Dewalt’s Rolling Thunder will be there with the #17 show car, as well as at least one of Ross’ two #25 Blain’s Farm & Fleet late models.

• Store location and driving directions

Don't forget the autograph session this Thursday!

When will they hand out numbers? When the doors open?

They will start handing out numbers as soon as people start asking for them.

Cyn is on her way way there now!

She got tickets 22,23,24, 25

Have fun, Dooley!

My mother in law just called me here at work to let me know that Farm & Fleet is a zoo! She wanted to go & pick up some bones for her dog, but she said there are cops directing traffic!!!

Oh wow! In addition to the autograph session, they're giving away a $3,000 shopping spree every day for a few days and prizes every 15 minutes. So there are a lot of reasons to visit the Oak Creek Farm & Fleet!

got there, and they were all out of tickets, so I went home.

You should've stuck around. The word at the end of the line was that even though the weather made Matt and Ross a bit late, they would be staying a bit later for some extra autographs. Of course, since I had to leave right after I got my stuff signed, I cannot verify that he was able to.

I'm busy uploading my good-camera pics to Flickr, but the previews from my "smart"phone are on my Twitter account - http://twitter.com/steveegg. Once I'm done putting captions on them, I'll do a quickie write-up.

Yes, it was a zoo outside. The rain didn't help any.

Since Rae asked for a report, I guess I have to give a two-part one. It might help to follow along with my Flickr set of the signing.

Even though I live a few minutes from the Farm and Fleet, I got there late thanks to the same traffic that held up the Kenseths. The parking lot was completely full, and I ended up parking on a side street a few-minute walk in the rain from the store. That rain also limited the outdoor display to the hauler and the DeWalt show car.

Because I was late, I didn't get a ticket, at least initially. However, I got extremely lucky when somebody who somehow had an extra ticket had his cell phone die on him, and he asked me to message him a pic. Because it is easier for me to send it via e-mail, I did that instead (and it also allowed me to let him know about the full set).

Since that extra ticket was in the last few of the 400 to get tickets, I decided to grab a couple of crowd-related shots. The shot of the night was a young fan up on the table between Matt and Ross. Everybody, and I mean EVERYBODY with a camera was taking pictures of that.

One of the hardest shots to get was Ross' trophy collection. The line to get autographs went right past it.

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Eventually, my number group got called, so I got into line. I ran into somebody who drove in from Iowa and also got in a bit too late to get a ticket. He heard from one of the Farm and Fleet employees that even though Matt and Ross were a bit late in getting in, they would try to stay a bit later after all 400 ticket-holders were taken care of to sign some more autographs.

I got all the way in and handed my hat, which I picked up at the Miller Lite Nationals this year to ward off the rain, to Roy. He found the one part that isn't black and signed it. He then passed it to Ross, who found a silver Sharpie and put his signature on it. Meanwhile, I handed my 2007 Carhartt race-won diecast to Matt to sign. Ross, forgetting that there was a one-item-per-driver limit, handed my hat to Matt, and he also signed that.

I briefly talked to Matt about what might have been had he had more cars like the Charlotte one a couple months earlier, and he's looking forward to getting a win or two out of the rest of the season. I had to head to a meeting to which I was already rather late, so I don't know whether the gentleman from Iowa who got in a bit late was able to get something signed. Before I left, however, I decided to give DeWalt one last plug with the signed souvenirs since Farm and Fleet was so kind to have a DeWalt display.

Asked Matt about martinsville and he said he was (middle name) about it! I hope so!!!

Thanks Steve!!

Thanks Steve and Dools! That was awesome! The Kenseths stopped traffic!