For Us Car Lovers...

[BubbleWright]

Thought I'd start a new thread about another of our passions. I get off work at 2 PM and yesterday took a leisurely drive out of Delaware towards Baltimore on Route 40. Below Aberdeen there are stretches of road that are little changed since the 1950s. Near Abingdon I was coming up on an older vehicle parked in a lot at an auto repair shop. When I got close enough to identify the car, I just about snapped my head off swiveling to look at it. WOW!!! Could it be!!??? I quickly made 2 u-turns and drove into the lot and parked. Running over to the car I was blathering "YES, YES!!!". I made about 10 circuits of the car, then went in to the office. When the receptionist got off the phone, I asked "Is that an authentic 1960 EDSEL?". As it turns out, its owner is a collector of EDSELS and CORVAIRS, who brings them to the shop for transmission work. They were quite surprised that I knew what the car was, since the 1960 EDSEL production run was only 44 days for a total of 2,846 autos. As if to reward my knowledge, they led me into a side garage where what to my wondering eyes, was a 1960 EDSEL station wagon. By now I'm in total old car overload. And RATS, no camera. After some shop talk, I bade them farewell. Not a quarter mile down the road was another shop with a CORVAIR Greenbriar van out front. The rest of the day was anticlimactic. For 1960 EDSEL info, see link below.

The floor is now open for your car stories....

http://www.edsel.com/pages/edsel60.htm

[Lady Neysa]

BubbleWright,  I don't know if your car tastes run  into "newer" cars, but if you're interested there is a huge car show in the area this weekend.  The ACES Mid-Atlantic Chevelle show in the North East town park.  It's a huge annual 2 day show, Sat. and Sun. that brings in Chevelle enthusiasts from all over the mid atlantic region, with a couple hundred Chevelles ranging from '64-'72.  There's a dj playing mostly 60s and 70's classic rock (with some 50s thrown in.), car related games and prizes, food, old car parts vendors. Chuck Hanson from Horsepower TV will be there.
Free admission-and a beautiful waterfront location looking out on the head of the bay.  Nice way to blow a few hours on a nice weekend afternoon. 

[BubbleWright]

Thank Thee Lady Neysa. If it has wheels I'm interested, everything from Trabants to Tatras. I might take a spin down that way... I'll park a distance away and bicycle to the park. Haven't been to North East in years- I used to go to the flag shop at the end of town.

[BLAKDUKE]

I would absolutely love to get into this thread but I am afraid I would take it over and my posts would go on like all of ST Pauls letters to the Romans and all the others he wrote.  I will suffice to say that I own Packards, and Mopar convertibles.  Stories,  I don't have enough  life span left to tell them all. 

The Blakduke..........

[BubbleWright]

Stories,  I don't have enough  life span left to tell them all.

...perhaps not all but how about one or two of your favorites? After all, is not the tag line "Ask the man who owns one!" ?

[Morgan Dreadlocke]

If ye suffers from Cam-Am lust, ya need be lookin' in here- http://www.petroleummuseum.org/Gallery/CarsonDisplay.html

[Welsh Wench]

I bought my first Bug from Ed. He built this car, using a Type 1 VW body, welding and molding new parts onto it. The scoops are from a Mustang, the tail lights are Model A--or maybe Model T--reproductions. The interior is leather and suede. 
I asked Ed where he got the idea and he said, 'From my mind!'

It will appear in the August issue of Hot VWs.
The price is 45,000.00.

Thanks, Jack, for finding the lost email. 

http://s122.photobucket.com/albums/o251/Mad_Jack_photos/?action=view&current=PhotoStory0.flv

[BLAKDUKE]

Stories,  I don't have enough  life span left to tell them all.

...perhaps not all but how about one or two of your favorites? After all, is not the tag line "Ask the man who owns one!" ?

Well Of Course your right, so give me a bit and I will write one up off-line and then cut and paste in here.   

[dbaldock]

On May 2nd, when my parents were visiting, we went to the "Keels & Wheels Concours d'Elegance" at Lakewood Yacht Club in Seabrook, TX.

The Duesenbergs and Delahayes were the "featured" Antique Classic cars at the show. And there was also a rare collection of 1960's Shelby GT Mustangs and Cobras, since Carroll Shelby was to be the Guest of Honor. He didn't actually make it due to health issues though - after all, he is 86 years old.

With over 200 classic and exotic cars, and over 70 boats on display, I can't even imagine how many dollars worth of vehicles we got to see and photograph that day.

I've posted all of the photos as Facebook albums:
Classic Cars - Album 1
Classic Cars - Album 2
Classic Cars - Album 3
Classic Cars - Album 4
Classic Cars - Album 5

Take Care,
David Baldock

[Noble Dreg]

In high school there was a girl, Liz.  Good Golly she was a beauty!  Blonde knock-out.  Everyone wanted to date her.  I didn't stand a chance.  She'd tear guys apart and leave 'em begging.

I was told I was the only guy who ever broke her heart...I bought my first car, a killer red 1970 Fiat Spider from her dad.  God she loved that car.   

My "midlife crissis" replacement for the Fiat...

[Lady Neysa]

Oh wow, did somebody just mentioned a Fiat?  Heh,heh.  Back in high school I used to ride home from school every day with this guy who owned a 1976 Fiat 131 sedan.  I always described it as an eye popping glow in the dark green, that came to be known as "the green bomb."  Boy did we - him, and a bunch of friends - have fun in that car. Every day we'd take the back roads home and would go speeding up over this one hill, and I swear we'd go slightly airborne and I'd always hit my head on the roof!  Another time I remember him taking a corner too fast, and some cassette tapes that were on the dash went flying out the window.  Yet another time, on one of the back roads there was this old fashioned wood plank and iron girder single lane bridge that was over a creek.  Don't ask me how, but we somehow ended up sideways on that bridge, I can't remember how we got turned around. He discovered that Fiats do not swim well through flood waters.  He was really mad at me once when I broke his windshield wiper, but in my defense, I was sitting on the hood when he decided to be a smarta$$ and try to make me fall off, by creeping forward and hitting the brakes. Served him right.  Boy, I'm sure there are lots of other stories I could tell, but that's all I can remember at the moment. 

Gee, whatever happened to that guy?  Oh yeah.........I married him!  . In August we'll be together for 21 years!

[dbaldock]

...  He was really mad at me once when I broke his windshield wiper, but in my defense, I was sitting on the hood when he decided to be a smarta$$ and try to make me fall off, by creeping forward and hitting the brakes. Served him right.  Boy, I'm sure there are lots of other stories I could tell, but that's all I can remember at the moment. 

Gee, whatever happened to that guy?  Oh yeah.........I married him!  . In August we'll be together for 21 years!

Did you have to repair the windshield wiper before he proposed?   

I'm guessing that some of the other stories might get the thread moved over to John's Inn.      

Take Care,
David Baldock

[DonaCatalina]

Katrina

[BubbleWright]

Although these are large scale die cast autos, it is the model maker's skill at building dioramas and photographing them that sells the image. Take a nostalgic trip to the 1950's....

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24796741@N05/sets/72157604247242338/show/with/2346008881/

[redkimba]

Pay it forward car - 1966 Mustang Project Car

http://payitforwardcar.com/default.aspx

Mustangs of East Texas built out this car for the benefit to their chosen charity, the East Texas Crisis Center.   I have a slight bias for this group - my dad and my brother are part of the club that built out this car.