FUN STUFF! Cruising in Downtown Austin Tonight! 4/2

Hey Gang! Had a little adventure tonight.

My oldest kiddo went to Dallas for the weekend last night, and Misty wanted to go get some Italian food tonight. I'm not big on Italian, had more than my share when I lived in New Jersey, and besides, Italian food in Texas is about like Mexican food in New Jersey. It's just not quite "right".

That being said, I kinda pulled a fast one. Rather than do Olive Garden or Macaroni Grill, there is an old italian place in downtown Austin called Romeo's. It's good stuff, if a tad pricey. I loaded Misty and Tucker in the Roady and headed downtown. Misty was excited, this would be a treat...

I neglected to mention the big cruise-night is Saturday night on South Congress downtown. Hehe...

SO we had a good dinner, and I offered to buy her and Tuck a cupcake from Hey Cupcake!, which..ahem...is on South Congress..

All I can say is that was a GREAT night! Misty kinda caught on once we got down there, but she was full of expensive Italian food, and actually pulled out her phone to take pics for me!! Very Cool!

We cruised up and down South Congress for over two hours, really had a good time, great cars down there and I WILL be doing that again. There were FIVE OTHER LONGROOFS that showed up! Two were Impala clones, one was a Caprice with hubcaps, and the last one was a total twin of my car, white woody over red guts, but it had hubcaps. Was driven by a blond girl and we passed each other and both about jumped out our windows waving at each other! Was SO cool! Ha! Sadly she was going north and I was going south, and I never saw her a again, so no pic of that car. Booo!

We never did make it to Hey Cupcake, but stopped at Amy's Ice Cream on the way home....so all ended well too! And seeing all the other wagons cruising and people waving and giving us thumbs-up may have given Misty a new appreciation for my wagon. Ha! She also said she felt like a teenager again, cruising the main drag in her hometown in highschool....with the exception that she was in a wood-covered station wagon with a baby in the seat behind her....I married a funny woman.

Also, withever a car would rev it's engine, my 2-year-old Tuck in the back seat would go RRRRRR!-RRRRR! Fun stuff, training him right!

Here's the pics! Keep in mind these were taken with her cell phone camera, while we were in the Roady cruising, so they are not the greatest, but you'll get the idea. Sorry for the blurry ones but some NEAT cars and cool people! Fun times!

-Mike

This is at the far south end of South Congress, check out the two Lincoln's.


Interesting truck...


Cool a 56 behind us!


Some of Crovo's dream cars!



Lots of neat cars around the old movie theater


Primered 56 passed us


Look at that Caddy!


Neat old Chevy


Corvettes, Novas, Cudas and Mustangs!


Low-Ri-Ders


Good old Oldsmobile


I wish Misty could have gotten a pic of the entire Impala SS beside us! The driver gave my Roady a big thumbs-up!


Really sharp Skylark ragtop, FULL of people! The girls in the back seat were having fun waving at everyone. And is that my GTO in the 7-11 parking lot behind the Skylark? Yep, a '67 Goat!




Is that one of ZZ-Top's cars?


More hot rods


Chevelle and Camaros


Some VERY neat rides in front of the Magnolia Cafe



Neat old Chevy pickup....sorry it's blurry!


3rd Gen Vette's on the cruise


Sharp Nova


Cruising north toward downtown Austin


More neat toys cruising by!





Impala SS's!






More neat toys!




Check this out..man I wish I could have gotten a better pic. Appears to be a 79-81 Z28 Convertible


MEAN 70 Chevelle


Old truck in front of Hey Cupcake! .... Sorry Misty..


70 Chevelle that shows up at the Cedar Park weekly meet a lot


Totally de-chromed 72 Cutlass


Check out that Imperial 2-door! Sharp!


Hey another LONGROOF!


Cool old Chevy


Cool Caddy and DeSoto ragtop cruising in front of Lucy in Disguise




442!


Another Longroof in Impala dress..damn cell phone camera!


Duster Fun


Line of cool hot-rods


Cool Olds 88!


NICE '60 Chevy wagon! Big thumbs-up from these folks!



Mean Trans Am


VERY COOL RODS! LOUD!!



Big Chrysler wagon


Hey there ya go! CLEAN Caprice longroof and lots of waves to my Roady! Love seeing all these wagons downtown!


Wow a 59 Caddy ragtop!


Just hanging out!


MEAN GTX...gorgeous black paint!


Following a Grand National


And crossing the river on our way back, downtown Austin in the background


FUN NIGHT ON THE TOWN! Oh and keep in mind Cars and Coffee is TOMORROW.

-Mike

Lipstick red 59 caddy ragtop,.*sigh*
add, turbo'd LS2,6L80E, C6 brakes front and back,.1 of my dream cars,.

Nick

There was a huge b-body meet there today called INC-fest. INC = Impalas n Caprices.

Looks like you stumbled on to them without realizing it. One of my SS buddies rolls a wagon and posted some of those SAME cars on his FB album earlier today.

There were a TON of Impalas there, no kidding! Was really fun to see so many!

Man I want to go to one of these cruise ins.... there's one tonight but it's a ways away from me. Can't really swing it time wise


This looked like a blast!