Last week Gunslinger emailed me about going to a car show yesterday (Sunday 8/22) very close to where I live. My response- "why not". Every year the Jefferson County Fair has a car show and I hadn't gone for some years. There are usually six or eight Studebakers there. Sunday weather predictions weren't very good- 80% chance of thunderstorms and we did get rained on going to where we met a few miles from the fairgrounds. We wanted to arrive together and park side by side. This show has something for everyone and the classes aren't separated. We registered as numbers 40 and 41 which entitled us to dash plaques in addition to the huge goody bag everyone got. I didn't look at the dash plaque until I got home- nice surprise-
The threatening weather turned beautiful and the cars who were apparently scared off by the predictions started trickling in. I guess there were well over 100 cars there. The only true antiques were two Model T Fords. All the other '20s/'30s/40s and many '50s were rodded. There were classes for EVERYONE including late model trucks, tricked up rice rockets, motorcycles... As it turned out, we were the only Studebaker/Avanti representation on the field.
Gunslinger's '70 is a stunning car- many upgrades extremely well done.
There was an apparent CAS0 who parked a very nice '54 (?) Champion Coupe outside the show. It had a single exhaust, but a Hawk dash and some unknown bucket seats- nice job. Any of you Californians know what the decal on the door means?
The quality of the cars was generally very high and there were some really well done rods.
My favorite was an absolutely stunning '38 Chevrolet two door sedan shown by a 71-year old gent.
How about a golf cart with a 305 Chevrolet engine?
or a '69 Austin Mini with a Honda V-Tech engine (1300 pounds with 200 hp)?
They don't call West Virginia Wild and Wonderful for nothing!
The threatening weather turned beautiful and the cars who were apparently scared off by the predictions started trickling in. I guess there were well over 100 cars there. The only true antiques were two Model T Fords. All the other '20s/'30s/40s and many '50s were rodded. There were classes for EVERYONE including late model trucks, tricked up rice rockets, motorcycles... As it turned out, we were the only Studebaker/Avanti representation on the field.
Gunslinger's '70 is a stunning car- many upgrades extremely well done.
There was an apparent CAS0 who parked a very nice '54 (?) Champion Coupe outside the show. It had a single exhaust, but a Hawk dash and some unknown bucket seats- nice job. Any of you Californians know what the decal on the door means?
The quality of the cars was generally very high and there were some really well done rods.
My favorite was an absolutely stunning '38 Chevrolet two door sedan shown by a 71-year old gent.
How about a golf cart with a 305 Chevrolet engine?
or a '69 Austin Mini with a Honda V-Tech engine (1300 pounds with 200 hp)?
They don't call West Virginia Wild and Wonderful for nothing!
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