Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Some down time


Ahhh, time to relax.  We've been out of town almost every weekend lately!
 So, it's time to relax, and spend some quality time chillin'!

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Gathering of the Faithful 2012

One of the last car shows of the season.  It's a 'good' one, and it's right around the corner from our house!





Beautiful day.  We drove our Green 34 5 window coupe.  We haven't taken it out in a while.
 Good friends
 Good cars
 Good crowd!  The great weather brought one of the largest crowds in recent years.  Yeah!

Lucky us, some friends followed us home for a little after party ;)




 Party in the garage of course!
 Meeting Woodrow was one of the key attractions :)  Thanks for coming over!
Sad to see the end of another hot rod season.  Hoping we have another mild winter, so we can continue to take the cars out every weekend!

Friday, October 12, 2012

More pictures from the Baltimore trip

The Rodders Journal Revival was such a good time - it was worth two posts!

 I love Baltimore!
Friday's lunch at River Watch
cruisin'
Taking over the waterfront!
Inner Harbor
Friday night fun at Fells Point



Saturday's show


Saturday night's fun

Ritchie & Me

On the road again

Thursday, October 11, 2012

The first Rodders Journal Revival

We, along with other TRJ subscribers, were invited to the first Rodders Journal Revival in Baltimore.  It was a weekend that we had free, so we decided to take the 34 Roadster on it's first long road trip.  It was well worth it!

Leaving Thursday morning  - top down of course!

Our friend, Ritchie, also joined us.  Road trips are always more fun with friends!

We arrived in Baltimore, checked into our hotel room, then headed to Pimlico race track for the Thursday night photo shoot.  It was a beautiful & warm evening.  After the photo shoot, we headed to the Canton Dockside for dinner.  Another impromptu photo shoot with all the hot rods in the parking lot.  And not just any hot rods - some of the best in the country.  There were no '20 footers' to be seen.

Friday morning, we met up in a grocery store parking lot near the Canton Dockside.  We headed out for the Friday cruise.  Another beautiful day (weather men had called for rain, rain, rain)
 It was a fun cruise - so many cars!
 We ended up at the River Watch restaurant - another place on the water.
Chris & Ritchie
 Another opportunity for cool photos


 Lots of opportunity to meet new friends too.  What a great weekend!
 Then we cruised back to the inner harbor - past the football & baseball stadiums

 Ritchie & Chris parked their cars on the sidewalk near the hotel, since we only had a couple hours between the cruise & the evening festivities.  They had their own personal car show!  And no one asked them to move - it was pretty cool!
 Then it was time for the Friday night drive in movie night at Fells Point!
 Found some good parking; went to a couple cool bars:  Koopers Tavern & The Horse You Came In On
 Movie night  = American Graffiti.  (you can see the screen in the far background)  Most people walked around, looked at cars, and enjoyed the bars & restaurants.  But the movie was a pretty cool idea.
 Saturday was the car show (and Sunday too)  It was your typical car show.  Drive in & park it.  It was at Pimlico racetrack which was pretty cool.  They had some vendors & a number of different bands.



After the Saturday show, they had a cruise to Little Havana.  Not as many people went along on this cruise.  I don't know why - I think it was great that they had so many venues planned.  There wasn't a lot of down time & you had so many opportunities to meet new people.  It was great!


 Dinner at Little Havana with some new friends

 Then it was time to come home :(  We headed home early on Sunday - so we didn't go back to the show.  We had a great time!  Can't wait until next year!  Thanks Ritchie!