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bob w

Still crazy after all these years!
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This weekend was the Back to the 50's car show. Almost 12,000 cars, 1964 and older. I took only a few pics. Here they are:
I tend to focus on the few hundred cars that aren't "pretty". The 4th pic is a car that went through a fire, burned off a metallic purple paint job.
 

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The first page is from Friday. This show is definitely overload on the senses. Just too many cars.
 

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There is a large variety of cars and I've tried to capture some of that. There's 200 vendors, many dozens of food vendors and a beautiful shaded fairgrounds of 200 acres. If you get there late, like I do you have to park in the vast tarmac area used for the midway during the state fair. That's where I took most of the pics. I built the '31 A Sedan in the '70's and sold it after a couple years. It is almost identical to the way it was built. The son of the guy I sold it to now has it.
 

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Just a couple more. On Saturday there's at least 50,000 people either with their cars or spectating. Many of the cars line up outside the fairgrounds at 3:00 am to get the parking spots they want. Not my style.
 

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E-man, I didn't look under it. Used to get on my hands and knees to look under lots of rods. Not anymore.
47 years this show has been going on and I haven't missed one.
 
!2000 cars thats a huge show, love the Dodge gasser, one of my favorite body styles Mopar brought in the 60's.
 
!2000 cars thats a huge show, love the Dodge gasser, one of my favorite body styles Mopar brought in the 60's.
It was a legit gasser. Straight axle. It made lost of noise.

Felt kinda good as there was 4 rods there that I built.
 
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Thanks for sharing the pics Bob! Awesome that you've stuck with it for 47 years! A bunch of guys from here are planning to go next year (approximately 1,300 miles each way).

I'm puzzled, do you know what this car is?

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I knew...but I forgot. Dr. C., you can unbag the feline. Thanks everyone for appreciating the pics.
Saturday it took my friend an hour and a half to go a mile once he got close to the fairgrounds. So many spectators trying to get in the parking lots surrounding the fairgrounds.
The Sunday swap meet is huge. I didn't go because I'm "downsizing" and don't want to be tempted. A couple friends bought projects at the swap; a 1946 Olds fastback With an Omega clip and 350 Olds engine and the other is a '29 A sedan, roller, chopped.
 
I knew...but I forgot. Dr. C., you can unbag the feline.

OK.

The car is a 1929 Erskine, a Studebaker product named after the company's president, Albert Russel Erskine...

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Chopped and lowered in silver...

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The cowl details are surprisingly similar to a '29 Pontiac or '29 Oldsmobile...

Pontiac...

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Oldsmobile...

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Were GM and Fisher Body in bed with Studebaker? Elephino, but the Erskine's lines are decidedly different through the doors, at the beltline and up from the rocker/splash pans...

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I often say how today, you can't tell cars apart. The same can be said about cars in the 20's and 30's. They all followed the basic design of function. It was the post war cars up to 2000's that were mostly distinctive, even though many later years all had the same sheet metal.
 

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