MARCH 10 STAR OF THE WEEK-TAKE A DRIVE ALONG THE BEACH IN AN OLD FORD TRUCK
MARCH 10 STAR OF THE WEEK-TAKE A DRIVE ALONG THE BEACH IN AN OLD FORD TRUCK
Full disclosure here...this Star of the Week is on my laptop as a screen saver. I liked it because it sums up why we run old iron-a beautiful summer day and a drive along a lake in a vintage Ford truck.
Clearly the fix was in at some point for this truck to be a Star of the Week.
Things have changed since this picture was taken in the summer of 2009 because that road doesn't run the same way by that lake so you can't actually do this drive right beside the lake.
It's full of sidewalks now but that's progress.
Things change fast-this is a classic example but we cling to the past in many ways to compensate.
That's why this summer day back in 2009 was easily a Star of the Week scenario.
MARCH 9 STAR OF THE DAY: PUSHING 80 AT NIGHT IN AN OLD RIDE
That "pushing 80" title might be a bit misleading because this isn't about miles per hour.
It's about a birthday. This old classic is pushing 80 years old and yet here it is on a summer night in 2010 in real world traffic.
A signficant number of car guys like to park their old iron before sunset. In most cases that's an acknowledgment that these old chariots are a little weak in the electrical department.
This car is strictly DC-long before the alternator became standard equipment so the lighting issue is critical.
That didn't stop this octogenarian from being an mscc Star of the Day.
The 1968 Imperial was a long term member of the fraternity known as the North American luxury car.
These land barges were the ultimate turnpike cruisers-they were large and in charge on the highway.
This 68 Imperial was seen at a 2011 show and it was immediately filed as a future Star of the Day...today is the day.
Hollywood gossip shows and laws of physics tell us that stars come out at night.
The original 1974 'Gone in 60 Seconds' movie produced a little known car star at the time called Eleanor. Eleanor was a 1973 Mustang Mach 1 in this movie but the remake turned Eleanor into a 1967 Shelby GT 500 on steroids.
Thus an industry was born-the movie star Mustang named Eleanor.
Here's an Eleanor in its natural nocturnal environment-a star car and an mscc Star of the Day from a show back in 2009.
MARCH 6 STAR OF THE DAY-THIS TRUCK STOPS IN NEVADA
This old truck has seen better days-those days were sometime around the late 1920s.
The old beast has probably been sitting in Nevada since they started construction on the Hoover Dam.
Nevada has a dry climate so the old truck is in pretty decent shape for a vehicle that's never spent a night in a garage but clearly its days are numbered.
But this day it's a star...an mscc Star of the Day.
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MARCH 5 STAR OF THE DAY: JUST ANOTHER DAY IN CAR GUY PARADISE
Winter is arguably the longest, most unforgiving season-that's a kind description.
Car guys deal with winter-they head to the garage en masse to tweak a current project or start a new one.
That's the best coping mechanism with one exception. How about car guys who live in a place where winter is a mere concept?
Reality for them is found in a picture like this-two vintage rides on a tour in February.
You can see the palm trees because this is Hawaii...the land of perpetual summer.
Despite the obvious appeal of a winter car project, a day like this in a beautiful tropical area behind the wheel of a classic rod can be summed up in one word... "paradise".
There's something comforting about this picture because it's life affirming. It tells us that 365 days of the year, there's a car guy behind the wheel of his ride.
That makes a great Star of the Day theme...
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