"Teach your kids how to work on cars, then they'll never have enough money to buy drugs."
This weekend is Street Rod Nationals here in Louisville, the world's largest gathering of street rods.
This annual reunion of money pits is held at the fairgrounds here but the real show is just outside the gates along Phillips Lane. That's where everybody cruises and people post up along the road to watch.
It's an interesting scene and I'd went for that as much as the cars, but the people deserve their own post so this is just about the mechanical marvels.
The smell of it reminds me of my childhood, that heady mix of gasoline and burnt dinosaur bones. For a few years we had a cruising night in my hometown but eventually they put enough holes in Main Street doing burnouts that they canceled it entirely.
I was there too early for the burnouts, it was mostly just a rolling revue of automotive history.
Not sure what sort of Hudson that is but they stopped making them entirely in 1957.
Talking about history, the Edsel definitely is. Historic failure that is, the brand only existed for three years. They're a collector's item now, go figure.
Kept waiting for ZZ Top to hop out of one of these.
Always wanted me something that got about 8 miles a gallon but I never could afford it. Seemed like half of the cars out cruising had For Sale signs and judging by what they were asking that's not likely to change though. Still, I wouldn't say no if somebody were to give me a '73 Cuda.
Hell, I'd be happy with a Camaro.
Not everybody was going with the polished look, was kind of refreshing. If it's that old and ain't well acquainted with rust you've probably got too much time and money on your hands.
Pretty sure there's potholes on the expressway that'd eat that truck whole but it sure is pretty.
Finally figured out what all those old WWJD bracelets were about: What Would Jesus Drive? Oldsmobile apparently...
That's enough cars for one day, but I took over a thousand photos so there's plenty more where that came from. Anybody got an old street rod? Anybody got one picked out for when they win the lottery?