(Part One) Surprise car show...

...in the neighborhood last weekend.

Last Sunday there was a Community Street Fair a couple blocks from where I live. Decided to check it out and was pleasantly surprised by a car show that was part of the festivities. 

I'll probably break this in to a 2 parter...since I haven't got all the pics uploaded from the new phone yet. (Still learning how to use the thing).

There was a variety of Hot Rods, Classics, and trucks...and a 'Baja Bug'.

The school district I went to had '55 and '56 chevs as Drivers Education cars. By the time I had Driver's Ed they had moved up to '60's Dodge Coronets.

My brother bought a few '55's and '56's for under 50 dollars in the mid '60's when he was in Junior High School....fixed them up a bit, and moved them on for a couple hundred....wish we'd hung on to them....

Always wanted a '57, and in this color...

Course these days I wouldn't mind an old Panel truck...to carry a bike and/or camp out of.

The kind of sedans that were around about the time I was in diapers...

A pair of '70's Muscle Mustangs...brought back memories of tuning and racing around in a couple of my buddie's 'Stangs...

Had a nice time hanging out and chatting with the owner of this VW Baja Bug. He was close to my age, and even though we went to different schools he'd grown up in this area, so we got to swap a lot of stories of the 'good old days' of the Sacramento area...

Will end here and be back with more pics in part 2....

Due to circumstances....

....beyond my control....after waiting a year for the 2013 Clubmans Show at the Santa Clara Fairgrounds in San Jose...I missed it. Which really bummed me out. And with the bombings in Boston, been in a funky mood..... then realized my personal life isn't so bad, so I ought to get off my duff and post something...

So found some really good pics at Pete Young's blog, so have posted a link and you can see some of the cool stuff that was there. Actually, Pete Young's blog OcchioLungo has all kinds of neat stuff to read and look at so check it out.--click here-------------->OcchioLungo

I've also added it to the list of blogs over to the right------------->

And here is a link that will bring you to a pic of the Triumph motorcycle that a lucky man won in the raffle----click here---------->Raffle winner

This is all Oliviabanana's fault...

I've opened an Instagram account...I'm trying to figure out how to 'paste' a badge on this page....hmmmm

Like I said this is all that French lassies fault....(AKA Big Mama)

Some time has passed...there are now 91 random pics at the instagram account. And thanks to a work around tipped to me by the Busch Brothers, I've finally figured out how to link it up. If you want to waste some more time, check out Instagram. Click on the 'camera' up over there...

It actually works rather well once you figure it out, and is a quick way to put pics up at Facebook.