Truth be told, I am not an enthusiastic car show attendee. Still, every once in a while there's a local show to support a needed charity and they have decent food trucks so I hit Pearl with California Detailer (not too much - you know ME!) and drove the ten minutes in the 90+F heat two towns over to support the Whitinsville Community Day Care Center. There were around 300 cars there, mostly Hot Rods and a few other classics so I thought I would share a few interesting shots from the Whitin estate grounds, now a public community center. (Maybe the photos will even display for you. )
There was absolutely NO grouping of like cars, other than if a club arrived together they parked together. I got there early and ended up here, between two Fords, both had been with their current owners for less than six months.
So Here's Pearl, secretly sitting on a 1969 VW Beetle pan:
And here's what she looked like "before", except that all four fenders and both hoods were parking bashed (and she had no surfboards).
This Trabant has been showing up at just about every show. I think it takes the place of the "Herbie" the Love Bug that everyone got really tired of seeing. It's actually amazing that a Trabant can even MAKE it to several shows in a row!
A work friend had one of these gut-less wonders and he caught the vanity plate before I did when I sent the photo. His other comment was "nice paint!". 🙄
This truck has THE nicest paint I've seen in quite a while. The owner and his wife did it all - She does the taping and cut-in while he does the spraying and they kept it simple. Fabulous:
This is a local favorite - The "Vintage Diner" sits on Lincoln Street in nearby Worcester and all of the cars shown are well-known local Rods. This car has been a Street Rod for almost 50 years, now:
Here, the rest of the car was kind of "Meh", but this shot was pretty cool:
OK, a little 'Splaining - There is a State Police Barracks in my town that has been re-imagined as a State Police Museum and they brought this old Crown Vic cruiser to the show. They have cruisers and other vehicles from the 1930's to around the 1980's and the ex-cop who brought this one was the barracks manager in Grafton for over 20 years and now runs the museum:
He told me this cruiser was lightly used so they had very little to do to make it show-worthy. It also had a 5.8 liter EFI V8:
I love the Smokey hat up on the dash. And I wondered if that log book had any of my speeding offenses in it.......
This is a Ford GTI 351 from our friends in OZ, down under. There were a couple of Holden 4-doors just beyond it. I didn't know we had that many Holdens in all of Massachusetts!
The parade car of a still-in-business local fuel oil delivery company.
Yeah, I know.... Just another '32 Ford Highboy with another 350 Chevy engine.
But................ How often do you see one:
With "Three on the Tree"??? And then I realized it doesn't have a clutch pedal.
Two Cool License Plate Photos:
This is a rare, Fox Bodied Mustang, pretty much as it came from the dealer.
So that was the show, I thought, and I was leaning towards heat stroke so I decided to bail and just as I approached the exit, this pulls up blocking me in, two firemen jump out, grab extinguishers and bolt off across the lawn to put out a smoldering car fire that turned out to NOT be that 1969 VW Sedan. I finally got out of there fifteen minutes later. All in all, a decent little local show with fever-pitched entertainment!
