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.
Thanks for the great photos. Especially the black one at the top.
Diminished indeed, no surprise. No boattails this year?
Not a boattail in site and in fact the only restored classics, now that I think about it, were that massive Packard and tiny Sprite.
Hard to imagine today’s autos receiving this treatment one day.
There is a cult of idiots dedicated to tastelessly tarting up Teslas these days but they’ll probably get over it.
Wow, very nice. If you are in California for the next one, please let me know. I would love to go.
BTW, is that “Tower of Power” a straight Chevy 6?
It’s always late April every year and yes, we’re usually here for it. I’ll definitely let you know.
These are the cars of my childhood: my father’s mother’s Plymouth, my mother’s mother’s Buick and the blue Ford station wagon a slightly younger version of a turquoise blue one we had for a number of years as a family car. Cars back then were so sculptural beautiful, as seen at the Benicia car event. Not sure the Buick was there, but there were a couple that resembled it.
Those were the days, the peak years of American cars for us all. Down south we had a pale blue 1956 Ford wagon which I learned to drive in…and there was that $35.00 1938 Chevy Deluxe Sedan I bought with my leaf-raking money but never actually got on the road.
such low riders seemed the must