Whether it was the weather [cool and damp] or the economy [Valero closing, albeit not until next year] the car show was slightly sparser this year though the first blocked off block of First

seemed definitely business as usual…

with black as one defining theme

[Tower of Power]

and wheels another while

seeing this ’38 Chevrolet made me think for the first time in a long time that maybe I hadn’t totally ruined my first car* by covering it in black primer and not adding a chrome sun visor…

There was even a Fig[aro],

a curiously colored ’56 Ford wagon

and a massive Packard and though things thinned out on the jetty that did make it easier

for picture-taking.

We cut around to the Green

where an unprecedented amount of green was showing

along with a little bugeye,

some reds, oranges

and a purple, about which time

my feet were beginning to give out

so hobbled home past Fords, tChevys

and one badassian ’36 Plymouth to wrap it up with a Few More Fords…

Later, taking out the trash, I saw a bit of the Exodus from the alley and that was…

that.

*A similar 1938 Chevrolet ‘deluxe’ sedan bought from a little old lady in La Crescenta for $35.00.