Lovely story Don,
Thanks for the telling.
Cheers,
Marty
'53 TD
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 2:54 PM, don <don@napanet.net> wrote:
> Just got back from the car show in Calistoga. Amazing event for a small
> town; mainly hot rods, some preserved old US cars, a few restored ones, very
> few foreign cars. Apparently, a handful of European cars were able to
> squeek by the entry people. Oriental cars are not welcome, probably because
> the steel used in them is from the dead bodies of Chevys and Fords.
>
> There was an early red MGB roadster on display that looked fantastic (but I
> have a love affair with early MGBs), a Morgan +8, a TR4A, couple of Volvo
> P1800s, and a 356C that was concours quality. In general, the build quality
> of the cars at the show and the number of them there is quite astounding,
> but most of the cars are not my cup of tea. Too big, too thirsty, and not
> in the best of taste. There was one US car I always liked, a '64 Chevelle
> convertible. Actually there were two of those Chevelles there.
>
> One car at the show I had seen before, a black '32 Ford coupe which the
> owner bought in 1951 when he was 17. He built it into a hotrod in his youth
> in southern California. He now lives in St. Helena. When I last saw it on
> display at a car show, he had a hot rod magazine from 1957 laying on the
> seat with his car featured. The car has some concessions to modernity, but
> is basically the same period hot rod from the 1950s.
>
> A guy came up to me and asked, "Are you Don Scott?" I didn't recognize
> him, but I sold him a '71 Chevy Monte Carlo 15 years ago. It was a time
> capsule car then, and apparently still is. White, black bucket seats,
> 350/350, 36k miles, and looked new when I had it. He said he has only
> driven it 4,000 miles since he got it from me.
>
> I saw a 1950 Ford F-1 pickup at the show that was hotrodded with a small
> block Chevy and other modern pieces. I wondered if that was the truck I
> once owned, and inherited from my dad. When I had it, it was a stock 1/2
> ton truck with flathead V8 and 3-speed floorshift. I remember when I sold
> it, that the buyer of my truck lived in Sonoma County and was planning to
> make it into a hot rod. Sad fate for a loyal old friend.
>
> I think I was the oddball at the event. I rode my bicycle to the show (2
> miles) and wore a t-shirt with the image of a bicycle on it with the words
> "A quiet statement against oil wars" printed on it. I met a friend at the
> show who had his restored '53 Chevy pickup at the show. He didn't know what
> the shirt's message meant. I had to explain it to him.
>
> Don Scott
> 1962 MGA
> 1973 MGB GT (for sale)
> 2001 Miata SE BRG
> 1966 TR4A
> misc. Japanese cars
>
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