Featured cars: "The Classic Beauty of Wood in Auto Styling" Wagons from the Cars'R'Stars show at the Packard Proving Grounds (Shelby Township, MI)

Today, I brought my 84 Eldorado to the Cars'R'Stars show at the Packard Proving Grounds. I put the Eldo into the Car Corral and went to look at the show field.

This years "Feature": The Classic Beauty of Wood in Auto Styling

You're gonna love these cars!

I've got pix loaded on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/39912187@N04/sets/72157626946159016

Use the "Prev" and "Next" buttons to view the photos; there are about 20 pictures total.

Here are a couple of my favorites:

1952 Chev:




1949 Packard:




1927 Ford TT huckster





1954 Buick Estate



The 54 Buick had this front license plate:


And this cute little 1976 Pontiac Astre



A Great car weekend!

The quality of these pictures is incredible Joe.

Love the 27 truckster.

I forgot how bad the Pontiac Ashtrays looked. I think every one I have seen was that color.

Joe they were all just great and the maroon Packard was my favorite by far.Awesome variety
of cars too.
Jim Gordon

It was a perfect (overcast) day for pictures.

I had great conversations with the owners/builders of some of the cars.
That 39 Chev Suburban (in the flickr album) had a bored/stroked 6 cylinder with an Offenhauser intake, dual weber downdrafts, a RARE Fenton split manifold and a LOT of other cool mods. Best of all, I knew the owner but I didn't realize it was his truck until I asked if it was OK to shoot some pictures.

The owner of the 69 Buick Sport Wagon was embarrassed that he hadn't been able to clean the car since getting back from a 1200 mile road trip yesterday! He is the founder of the "Buick Driving Enthusiasts" club. They drive all over the country to attend member-arranged tours - sounded like a lot of fun.

Was that a 'Planes, Trains and Automobiles" Chrysler Town and Country convertible behind the 54 Buick wagon? That fancy K-cars still make me laugh. They were everywhere when I was a kid.

Great pics! Thanks for posting!

-Mike

Yes, sir; that was one of the K car derivative T&C's.
I didn't spend much time looking at that one...