Surprisingly, had a great car related weekend. I have a love/hate relationship with car shows. Always think I should go to them, because that’s what you do with old cars. But usually end up bored out of my mind and want to leave. This time the car show was at a large local
community fair. Vender is, live music etc. a community group I’m involved in was also at the event, so I could kill two birds with one stone and entered my car.
Much like working on paintball, getting the car ready is a zen-like experience I enjoy. I don’t go full OCD on cleaning, but fun making the old girl shine. I think it’s the part that I like the best of car shows.
This year at the show there was a surprising amount of Mopar guys. Over 8 total, all very different. Another young car owner had a Dart was very friendly and we hit it off, and went to go talk to the other Mopar guys. Ended up convincing most of them to be in a row for the fair. We had a 70s Dart, an amazing Roadrunner with factory 426 Hemi, 70 Challenger and a 74 Charger.
At the awards at the end of the show got chatting with the Dart owner and another similar she’d guy with a nice Mustang. We’re all local and so we shared each other’s info for meeting up for an occasional cruise, which is awesome.
Then today, driving around doing errands and catch what looks like the backend of a Barracuda well ahead in traffic. After waiting for a very long turn light to finish I headed in the same direction but figured I’d lost him. Couldn’t see him, so heading home only to run into him coming out of a parking lot down a different road. Waived and pulled into a parking lot and he joined me. It was an awesome ‘69 Notchback with the slant 6 that was all original. He just got the car a couple weeks ago and was a local guy as well. Exchanged number and will give him a heads up when we go for a cruise.
I’ve had the Barracuda since the early 2000s and have yet to have any of this happen and then in a single weekend happens twice.
community fair. Vender is, live music etc. a community group I’m involved in was also at the event, so I could kill two birds with one stone and entered my car.
Much like working on paintball, getting the car ready is a zen-like experience I enjoy. I don’t go full OCD on cleaning, but fun making the old girl shine. I think it’s the part that I like the best of car shows.
This year at the show there was a surprising amount of Mopar guys. Over 8 total, all very different. Another young car owner had a Dart was very friendly and we hit it off, and went to go talk to the other Mopar guys. Ended up convincing most of them to be in a row for the fair. We had a 70s Dart, an amazing Roadrunner with factory 426 Hemi, 70 Challenger and a 74 Charger.
At the awards at the end of the show got chatting with the Dart owner and another similar she’d guy with a nice Mustang. We’re all local and so we shared each other’s info for meeting up for an occasional cruise, which is awesome.
Then today, driving around doing errands and catch what looks like the backend of a Barracuda well ahead in traffic. After waiting for a very long turn light to finish I headed in the same direction but figured I’d lost him. Couldn’t see him, so heading home only to run into him coming out of a parking lot down a different road. Waived and pulled into a parking lot and he joined me. It was an awesome ‘69 Notchback with the slant 6 that was all original. He just got the car a couple weeks ago and was a local guy as well. Exchanged number and will give him a heads up when we go for a cruise.
I’ve had the Barracuda since the early 2000s and have yet to have any of this happen and then in a single weekend happens twice.
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