duke's baby

i've seen this 1950 oldsmobile 88 fastback at several shows now. this was last year at the ruby's in whittier show. the owner (i'm pretty sure his name is duke for some reason) spoke to me briefly at the geezers show at the garden grove elk's club back in march. said he was the original owner, and had bought it brand new back in the day. it looks like it drove off the line today, if you ever get to see it in person. just remarkable condition.

it's funny looking through these images from last year—maybe the second car show i'd ever been to with the camera—to see so many of the cars that i've gotten to be very familiar with in the last couple of months. actually, i think some of those shots that day are better than what i've been getting lately, since it was september, the sun was setting earlier, and there were really cool clouds blowing across the sky that night. i do remember it being so very warm that night, and packing up early. 

fabulous thunderbird?

check out this awesome 1958 thunderbird from tonight's downey show at the broiler. it was pretty clean, if you didn't look too long at the bumpers. had a little gnarly rust going on, but nothing that took away from the lines of the car. got a shot of the back end as well...maybe some other day.

not a lot of variety or cars i like to shoot tonight. figure between the rain last night and the chill in the air, a lot of people stayed home. still nice to get out after sitting in front of my computer all day at work.

that guy on the left thought i wanted a picture of his butt, since i was on the ground. no thanks. lol.

oldies but goodies

finally made it out to the foothill ranch show yesterday. quite a few cars that i've seen before, more that i haven't. overall not that big of a showing for a once-a-month thing. anyway, i enjoyed myself and everyone was either friendly or indifferent.

the couple that owned this car came right over to talk with me. they'd seen me before at a couple of other shows, and had lost the scrap of paper that had the link to my website on it. damn, i really need to spend an afternoon setting up a business card and ordering them...i'd just rather spend the time working on a picture. :)

i admit, you'd have to introduce yourself to me a couple of times before i remember you—i'm more likely to remember your car and which show i saw it at if i took a picture of it.

well, since they asked and were very enthusiastic about my portfolio, and apparently i had shown them the previous shots in the camera, here is the shot from yesterday, and what do you two think? i do have a couple of other shots from a previous show, just haven't gotten around to doing anything with them yet, and thought maybe this one was more interesting anyway.

oh how does it get so late...i stayed at work too late today. night!

let's go to the hop

i think this is a 1949 ford, but i'm not sure. this one got one of the primo spaces, at least for a while.

i think i've done enough of these for the day–i'm spent. back to work tomorrow, and expecting a long day...and a long week. why do they put weekends so far apart?

pink when i turn out the light

this 1957 thunderbird was hiding in the back lot of the broiler. sun setting making the paint go salmon color. hope the owner enjoyed the show while i enjoyed their car.

badass

ok, this nomad was freakin' pristine. even better that i made the owner nervous—though i was several feet from his car, he was afraid of my gear touching his baby. as if i want to bump any car—guess who'd get to pay for any damage? errr. well, there was a power cord running behind his car, but i stayed off of it. almost didn't want to bother taking a picture of it after that.

strange how he worried about me scratching his baby, when i later saw his toddler kid crawling around inside and beside it. doesn't he know that children are more hazardous to a vehicle than little old me and my tripod? i speak from experience...whatever.

it's full of stars...

this 1940 chevy was at the downey big boy's broiler last week. apart from it just being a cool old car, i think it caught my eye because the glitter paint on the fenders really started to shine with the sun beginning to go down. had some nice pinstriping detail too. even with these updates, the basic classic lines of the car still are perfectly preserved.

1941 was a good year.

well, it's getting late, but i just had to finish this one. garden grove main street again. this one was so clean, the light just bounced off the chrome. it just begged to photographed, so i did.

night everyone!

ford flamer

check out the flame job on this puppy. owner corrected me: 1950 businessman's coupe [thanks!] i think its a 1949 ford custom...i hate when all the identity stuff is removed and have to guess at what a car used to be. not that i know car models anyway, but i like to have some way of tagging my pictures. this was at the main street show in garden grove this past friday evening. not as many cars as there was when i visited in march. i suspect i didn't stay late enough, though i was there for 2 hours, shooting and waiting to see what other surprises would drive up.

not too many people on the side lots, nor even that many on the main street to get in the pictures. i think they were still hanging out in the restaurants or quenching their thirst while i was there. more room for me to get the shots i wanted, so much the better. i figure the more pictures i take, the better they will get. oh and you should see some of the prints i have of these cars. i just got a batch of 8x10s printed on a metallic finish paper...wow! ask to see them if you catch me at a show.

shaggin wagon

why do i always find wonderful cars parked out in the back lot here? are they waiting their turn for a prime spot? are they just people that are going to eat at bob's and just happen to drive bitchin' cars? some of these shows are so forest gump – never know whatcha gonna get.

this one, fortunately for me, had plenty of space to get a good shot and show its flames well. not sure what year this is (anyone know?), since obviously the owner was not around, and there was no specialized mark on the plates or anything. i stayed fairly late that night, and never saw this one move up to the main show. just wish they'd turn on the lights back there when the sun goes down. don't exactly want to be alone in the dark with my gear, so i'm sure there are many that i will never get to add to my collection.

on another note, what's up with the cruise night at angelo's in anaheim? i drove out there tonight after working late, about 6:30, and there's just two guys standing in front of wannabe low riders, the kind with the little wheels, but not much to look at. or the cars either. nothing on the flyer that says its only once a month or anything. at least it wasn't too far out of my way.

tired now, off to bedski.