Bastrop Texas Veterans Day Car Show 11/12

I'm loading up the kiddos and taking the brown '79 Buick. It's a bit of a road trip, about 40-mins, and the old girl needs some highway time.

22 car classes, 5 bike classes, $25 entry per car, free entry to look, teeshirt, register from 7 to 9 am (early, I know... kwitcherbitchin'... it's one of the last big area shows this year).

Expecting around 350 cars and 10,000 visitors! It's to benefit the Bastrop Firemen. They really need it after the Labor Day wildfires down there.

At 11 am there'll be a Veteran's day program including WWII aircraft flyovers, etc. should be pretty cool. If you are not a patriot, stay away.

trophies at 3:30///forum pics to follow tomorrow night!

http://bastropdba.org/vets

I just got done detailing the 79 Buick. Have to wake up in 5 hours to make this show. hahahaha......ZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Was beat when I got home last night so am just now getting around to posting these. Really a good show. Pretty weather in the 70's with a nice breeze. LOTS of cool cars and bikes, some nice veterans events, and I'd never looked around downtown Bastrop. It's neat!

As usual I went a little nuts with pics. Enjoy!

Here we are coming into town. Follwed bikes and hot rods into the event.








Got a good spot next to a gorgeous GTX, a Ford hot rod, and a 74 Chrysler New Yorker




Big Tuck!


The GTX was SHARP!







The Ford rod was sharp, but the owner was all paranoid my kids were going to touch his car, so we didn't hang out there long...


Wild color unrestored New Yorker, sold new in Midland Texas, and has original finanace form on display under the hood.





So lets start walking around!
How about a gorgeous Packard Super Clipper



Next up was a sharp Corvair convertible, with a/c! Texas fun






Next up is kind of neat. The guy that came in this GMC was wearing a Save the Whales T-shirt! I was shocked. Really nice guy, lives in Leander, and just recently bought a white over grey 91 Olds Custom Cruiser. He's got a wrecked '94 9C1 and is about to swap the drivetrain into the Cruiser. We talked for a good while. He'd found the shirt for sale on the ISSF page. He will be getting our the forum soon. Anyway the truck was sharp, it's a '71 GMC with a 250 straight 6 and they did a body-off resto on it. Clean! They are actually selling it because they have a '72 C-10 and want to use the funds from the GMC to restore the C-10 next. Pretty cool!




MEAN sounding 1960 Biscayne pulling in.




LOTS of nice hot rods





Slammed 454 SS


408ci Duster. Wheee!




Lowrider '65 Impala SS


When did you last see a SubLime '74 Dart Sport?






Clean early 70's Mercedes hardtop


Some cool Novas showed up. Blown 70, rodded 70, and very clean green '74




More cool classics pulling in


Clean 80 Vette. I still like C3's



Another sharp Ford Rod and a CLEAN 55 Hardtop Chevy pulling in




4x4 F1



And this is for a certain forum member....know you'll like this one! Ha!




My little boy Tuck really liked this old Chevy



Custom Hemi Road Runner. MEAN!






Hot 69 Mustang


And more toys


Sharp 2+2 fastback


Falcon Ranchero


How's this for a Sedan Delivery?



Another sharp Shoebox


Clean Chevelle


Tubbed and blown C-10


AMC Javlin with modded engine



Plum Crazy Challenger






And a Plum Mist Malibu. This is the color my GTO should be....I just don't know how I feel about this color....


This was so cool. 55 Caddy and Marilyn on a pedestal. When you walked by the fan below her blew up her skirt! Ha!





Pretty T-Bird


They started this gasser up and Tuck fipped out and ran away! Ha! Scared him to death.



Some NICE Mach 1 Mustangs



Elenore




Some more nice rods




NICE GTX


C2 Hot Rod


Clean F100


NICE '64 Impala



First Gen Charger


Another sharp C-10


MEAN black 69 Z-28


Lots of Shoebox Chevy's at this event. Nice '56

And pretty '57


69 Lemans Convertible....the memories....


And a nice '72 LeMans ragtop


Cars of my childhood, '85 Mustang GT


442 Ragtop


Check out this Chevy truck



And a NICE pair of Vettes




Sharp 69 Camaro




Tubbed '66 Nova



1962 Impala SS



Chevy SSR Pace Car



Oh I LOVE Grand Nationals!





Nice Mercury convertible


Freshly restored Duster. Ground up, nice job



Not one but two Sunbeam Tigers. One stock, other modded




Sharp all-black Crown Victoria


Infamous Cross-Fire '82 Vette



Now this was funny and brought back memories. Shelby Shadow CSX, these cars had fiberglass mag wheels, remember seeing them new at the New York auto show when I was in high school. Have not seen one in years and this one was near perfect. Funny 80's hot rods. Ha!






Sharp '57 4dr sedan


I feel like renting American Graffiti!



57 Bel Air post



80's Rolls Ragtop


Wildy-modded T-Bird


Another clean Corvair, this one a 1st-gen




Very pretty 62 Impala 4dr



How about a 1975 Ford Elite with 32K original miles. These won the award for tallest hood ornament of the 1970's




Clean 60 Pickup



More cool rods



And yet another Shoebox. Mean '55 one!



Flamed doodle-bug


And 2000 Gem Electric


Eddie with a big F1


Clean Chevelle



Chrysler Windsor Convertible


'67 Impala


Studebaker Rod, SHARP!



Falcon Ragtop


Very familier 70 Stang Coupe



'61 Bubbletop 409 Impala



Now look at this....does this look like a Mustang to you? It's not.






Gorgeous '53 Chevy Pickup


Tuck found a wagon. Notice the polished wheels. I didn't tell the owner my mother-in-law has Bullitt wheels on her Fusion too... Ha!



Just as we got here, along came the Veteran's Day Parade




Another wagon, this one an oddball Corvair. Factory A/C and Spyder gauges






Clean 2nd gen Vair


Pretty Mustang 2+2


Last of the "real" Road Runners


Another sharp Malibu


And a mean 2nd gen Nova


This black Pontiac was GORGEOUS. The paintwork was amazing. I looked at it for 15 mins. Would have stayed longer if the kids would have let me.









Check out this clean F1. The truck was nice...the bed floor was amazing. That's marble!





ANOTHER nice Shoebox


And a clean C-10


Wow NICE '63 Split Window


Tucker showing me "how the headlights open...ha!"


Willys Jeep


70's Malibu



Take a look at the pics of this Mach 1. The first photos were taken at this same event in 2008...the later pics are this year...after the Labor Day wildfires took half the town....ouch!





The windshield melted to the dashboard






melted headlight

left front fender




Nice clean Ford Tudor


Restored Military toys


Unrestored Coupe DeVille

I played "find the gas door" with Eddie


Sharp GMC 1/2 ton


Model A


Classic T-Bird


Pretty Ford Vicky



Super-sharp Fastback Stang


Ok I saw this from a distance and thought "nice trailer"....walked up to it and it was the engine that blew me away





Black 57 Hardtop


More Vairs


Nice Rod


Clean Chevelle Ragtop


Classic Honda 750 Four



Pretty toys all in a row



Sharp 67 Malibu


Nice C3's



Last of the big Fleetwoods


First Gen Viper


Check out this big beast of a Chrysler. Smooth man!





Cool F-100



Sweet '69 Camaro Pace Car




65 Impala Ragtop with an LS1/6spd in it




Couple more Shoebox Chevys



How's this for a mean looking pickup truck????




California Special



And another cool rod


Sweet Rod


Classic Ford


Mean '66 Impala Ragtop


Really a great show.

Put Tuck in the back seat, Eddie up front with me, windows down and cruise control set at 70mph, and drove back roads home, from Bastrop to Elgin and then through Taylor. No traffic, nice weather and big old Buick. Good day with my kiddos.




Hope everyone had a great weekend.

-Mike

Wish I could set my cruise to 70mpg!

I think my favorite of the bunch was the pink panel wagon. I liked that old cream colored mopar, too. The Beetlejuice was awesome!

Thanks for the pics. It was 27* here this morning.

[quote="toomanytoyz"]Wish I could set my cruise to 70mpg!

Ok fixed...

-Mike

toomanytoyz wrote:

Thanks for the pics. It was 27* here this morning.

The weather here is still crazy. Have had a couple of cold snaps that lasted about 24hrs and then it warms up again. I lost two more trees to the ongoing drought, makes me sick, one of the things I love about my house is (was) the big 30-40 year old shade trees. So far I've lost three trees this year. We still are not getting rain, and I spent yesterday in the yard with a chainsaw taking the tree down behind my carport, and another in my front yard. It was in the low 80's, so was sweating and covered with sawdust. Fun stuff.

Supposed to be 83 today, and then drop to the 70's tomorrow, 60's Wed, but back to the 80's by the weekend. Come join the temp rollercoaster! Please bring some rain!

-Mike

that malibu needs a bit of love in the detail department, but it looks clean. I have all the parts it would need to finish it off right.

that mustang is sad... reminds me of a thread I once seen in another forum where a few dozen pictures showed some of the new orleans flood damaged cars sitting in compounds awaitting whatever....

buickestate wrote:

that malibu needs a bit of love in the detail department, but it looks clean. I have all the parts it would need to finish it off right.

that mustang is sad... reminds me of a thread I once seen in another forum where a few dozen pictures showed some of the new orleans flood damaged cars sitting in compounds awaitting whatever....

Yep there were a lot of "before and after" pics from the Labor Day wildfires.

This one hurt to see:

Before:


After:


Sad stuff!