[PC/SR]

Driving the car is what I like, but took the speedster to 2 local shows. The first was typical, muscle cars dominant, seems if you did not have a 350 cch-vy in it you were kind of strange. The winner of the pre-1930 modified was a Brookfield with, yep, a 350 and lots of chrome. It was pretty, but my bet is that most of those cars did not have 100 miles on them. The other show was a charity fundraiser, limited to 1942 and earlier, barn finds to concours. Had some real fine, rare cars, and some real "junkers" and they were neat too. Judging was voting by the peoples choice. They had some fun classes. The speedster won in 2 "classes", One was car Flash Gorden would drive (age test-who remembers Flash Gordon) and the other was Favorite dirt track racer (it is not set up for dirt track racing, and I would not race it on a dirt track, another guy with an A speedster there should have won that one, but hey...). One of the Club guys with a clean, stock A driver won a prize as well. I like touring, hill climbs, and just plain driving, but mostly just dicking around with the car. I just dont understand guys who will put $50,000 up in a car and not drive it. I mean I understand it, its the money, they do not want oil or nicks on the car, but if you dont drive it, what's the point? The exception is the guys who do fine point restorations of the A's (and other old cars.) That degree of restoration is not for me, but I am glad someone is doing it as a history of automobiles and the venerable A.