We have been having some beautiful weather and Virginia is looking wonderful with all the flowering trees out and at last the snow has disappeared.  However,  today is wet, windy and a bit cool;  that sort of rain we get in Scotland, it’s not really raining hard but it soaks you to the skin. So today is a catch up day for the blog and Duggie is working in the aft cabin making another piece of what we call the picket fence, which is going to be part of our new teak cockpit.

With only two more weeks left before we go home,  Duggie is anxious to see as many classic car shows as possible and this blog is dedicated to those cars;  from loved cars that get more attention than a mistress with the amount of polishing, love and attention lavished upon them,  not to mention money;  to the piles of junk (that is my opinion), that are definitely only beautiful in the eye of the beholder.

 

 

Off for ice-cream in Callao (pronounced Calley’o) on Sunday afternoon in an air cooled, four wheeled drive,  1996 Porsche 911. Sticks to the road like glue and goes very fast!

 

 

The first show we went to was in a town called Fredericksburg about an hours drive away . It was held in a car restoration and storage facility. They stored about a hundred cars but also people drove their own cars up to the show.

 

Interesting display in the garage show room.

 

 

Spotlessly clean workshops for these pampered vehicles. Picture to the right is of previously restored vehicles.                                                                       

 

 

                                                        

On the left a 1976 Corvette Stingray C3 which is the same as the car Duggie has bought from our friends Steve and Ann in Ohio.  It  has so much boot space that we will be able to carry a toilet bag and a bottle of water, but has a 350 cubic inch small block  (5.7 litre V8) under that big bonnet which will do about 15 miles to the gallon. On the right a 1967 Corvette Stingray C2 which was for sale for $46,000....... about £28,000.

 

Not sure what this is but thought it was worth a photo with it’s orange paint and white leather.

 

On the 23rd of April we took a couple of days off and drove the 255 miles to Carlisle, Pennsylvania (Just north of Gettysburg) to visit a car show and swap meet there. There were thousands of stands where you could buy anything for any old car, 20’s to 70’s that you could wish for. Here are a couple of the photos we took.

 

Interesting paintwork on a 1964 Chevy Impala.                                                                                 1923 Ford model ‘T’ more or less as Henry Ford intended it!!

 

Pontiac was an Indian Chief and is depicted here on a Pontiac car bonnet which is original.        White Corvette C3 and rat look truck. Yes they drive them on the road like this with all modern brakes and suspension but left to look like it is on it’s final journey to the junk yard.

 

 

The Reaper mobile.                                                                                                                           One careful owner and never raced or rallied!! I think that is a 1959  Cadillac Coupe De Ville in the background

 

 

Every dog has his day at the car show.                                                                                                 AC Cobra replica; one of the very few British cars represented at American car shows because of the Carol Shelby connection. 1962 Ford Thunderbird with Landau top in the background.

 

Every ‘Man Cave’ should have an old set of pumps                                                                           Back home in the boatyard with  Bev in front of Doug’s 1963 Chrysler Imperial which is twenty feet long and seats two rows of four.

 

Yes you can buy brand new wooden wheels for your twenties cars.

 

That’s all for now as work beckons.