Inspiration and Good Eats

Went to Billetproof today; had a great time with my friends, and the weather was beautiful! Shot many photos, but I tend to shoot parts of cars for inspiration, and tend to forget to shoot the whole car. Additionally, this year's show seemed to have fewer hot rods and was predominantly customs; they also had what I would call street rods: pretty 50s cars that looks like they would usually turn up at a Goodguys event rather than a homebuilt hot rod/custom show. Sadly, or to my advantage for when I'm ready to show, there were perhaps just a half-dozen '26 or '27 Ts among the several hundred cars there, and few (if any) were flathead powered or in any way similar to what I'm building. In any event, I have below a few photos (courtesy of my new iPhone!) for you to check out. These are a distillation of what I thought were the best cars and/or most inspirational for my project.

A few nice traditional cars









Love the cool witness on this one; and a great car to boot.

After the show, I got to go to my friend's birthday BBQ. He and his family made me feel right at home (except when they were habla-ing about the gringo loco in their midst ;-) ). We had great food, drink, conversation, and the Blues Brothers on the DVD! This bachelor will be eating well on the leftovers they so generously sent home with me.

And a quick snap on the ride home.This is a familiar site to me as I would see this reflected in my rearview mirror nearly every evening for a year and a half when I commuted to my first job out of college.

Tomorrow I'll be running the flathead and hosting a visit from another friend of mine whose SoCal friend is building a similar '27 T.

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