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The Horseless Carriage Club of St. Louis held it's 46th annual "Concours d Elegance' Easter Car Show today. Nevermind it was 28 degrees or so when we left the house at 8am this morning.

What an absolutely amazing array of vehicles. From Model As & Ts to Cobras and Vipers and everything in between. Literally hundreds and hundreds of cars. Classics like our British cars and Italian cars and the American land yachts and coupes and oh my. American muscle cars and sweet, sweet GTOs and then acres of 'hotrods' on the lower lot and streets. I could have literally spent til dark and not seen everything.

A side note. The 'car' bug IS genetic. Da dot and her boyfriend came today. We were walking around with them looking at cars. Sarah LOVES the big land yachts, the Bonnevilles, Chevys, Caddies. The bigger the better. She has called them 'hoopty cars' for as long as I can remember. Walking around, there's this '69 Cadillac convertible, in a lovely shade of primer...for sale! About the length of 3 or 4 MGs nose to tail.
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The girl wanted that car. $4000 OBO. She had him pop the hood (that's my girl) and was ready to offer him $3000 and write a check out there. I suggested might be good to know if it had a TITLE and when she could retake driver's ed to learn to drive a car the size of a small country (particularly living IN downtown STL!)

She's got the #. She wants the car. Seriously. Someone asked her what sort of wheels it had. She said, "Round ones with air in them." Gotta love it.
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Here's a link to the pictures from today. You might have to take a second to sign in to view them, but it's worth the look.

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That’s a great turnout! Thanks JB for sharing. That red Spitfire looks like it got a little hot under the collar. Love the silver GT6, I owned one back in my early twenties, may need to get another one some day.
 
Charlie Key, a guy in our club. It's pretty rough.
 
Wow! What a great show!! Something to please everyone!
 
"Fire in the hole, fire in the hole!" Not sure what the story is behind that! But hopefully doesn't have anything to do with "Hey! Ya'll watch this!"

The G6 is around a lot. We do a lot of events with the Triumph club. There was a danged near perfect one at the New Orleans show a couple weeks ago.

Yea, absolutely something for everyone. Chuck found a Willys coupe, I found my Judge, Sarah found her hoopty car, Rob wanted all of them...

I didn't even walk through half the cars. HUGE show.
 
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]Who owns the Y-Type?

Charlie Key, a guy in our club. It's pretty rough.[/QUOTE]

Is he interested in selling it?
 
I believe Charlie would sell anything if the price is right. Who wouldn't? Although he's had this car awhile. (I get a commission AND an Autoist stinking ballcap)

Want me to find out? We have a meeting tomorrow evening.
 
hehehehehe...lemme know what he says.
 
I might. If you make it worth my while.
 
I love the GTO!!! I love those Little British cars...but still drool over that American Muscle
 
About big American cars...

One of the couples involved in the British Saloon Car Club own their little cars (a couple of Mini's, now a TR6 as well), but Dave's wife Elva really wanted a '59 Caddy though, and it had to be pink! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif So, a couple of years ago Dave tracked down a '59 Caddy sedan (all he could afford) and of course had it painted pink and gave it to Elva as a Christmas present, to nicely compliment their two Mini's... And she was thrilled with it too...
 
Some nice cars there, I would love to see a Muntz Jet just once in my life, not likely to ever happen here in Calgary (I know I shouldn't comparison shop, I just can't help myself sometimes /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif )

And there was a nice looking 1950's 4x4 in the background of one of the sports car photos (beige 4x4 SUV, Suburban? IHC Travelall?), would have liked to have seen that one too...
 
I was all set for a show here, but it was cancelled due to snow, in the South, the day before Easter. Unbelieveable!
 
I gotta say my favorite is the Muntz Jet. I don't think I have ever seen one before. It is image #42.
 
I absolutely fell in love with the Muntz today. A 1951, owned by a couple in Sikeston (a few miles from where I broke down on the Misery last weekend) A perfect specimen. Apparently they were made by a guy that owned a television company... google it. The best thing about this show is that EVERY year I see a car I have never seen (and sometimes never heard of!) before! This year it was the Muntz Jet.

And Terri. My first car was a 1966 Mustang, 289. I won more than my fair share of bets with that car on the 4 lane straightaway on the Cahokia bridge. I absolutely lust after a 1970 GTO Judge, convertible, 400, with Ram Air...
~drool~
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Some real nice photos Janel. Thanks for sharing them with us. Looks like it was a great show.
 
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