The Week 38 Car Show Report drives us to two locations.  Riding shotgun with Scot S, his wife, and his camera.  We got to the Torrance Elks Car Show.  And then The St. Vincent de Paul Car Show in Surf City.

Tom,

Saturday we went to two shows, the Torrance Elks Car Show Chili Cook-Off and the SVdP Parish Fest Car Show in Huntington Beach.

The Torrance show was held (basically) at the DMV, which I find entertaining.

This show was larger than I expected, but since my wife saw cars with flames, and Impalas with two antennae but no Rat Rods.  She judges the show incomplete, there were however the following:

– A ’27 Hi Boy cozying up to blown Chevys

– A ’60s (?) IH Box in matte that was just wonderfully simple

– A clean ’57 Metro

– –  that hides its push button shift behind a revolving panel

– “Honey! I Shrunk the Car”, the ’56 bug seems to have gone through the telescope the wrong way pausing at Snoopy size before winding up in a Champagne bottle.

– 1953 Eldo which is just a wonderful whale of a car.  Something about it this day was right.

– The 1960 Olds (Dynamic 88?)  is owned by Demasio and he had just bought it two weeks back from someone in WY.  The shaving, dropping and other mods were all done by the previous owner(s).  He only knew about the recent part of the story where it had slept in a garage for many years and the family needed it gone.

– – The upholstery is the original factory, the shift is 3-on-the-tree (with an unexpected pattern) and

– – the engine is stock.  No, he didn’t drive it here from WY, but he did drive it into the show.

– The 62 Comet was my favorite at the show, hydraulics, and roof display, but only because I love these *ahem* Falcon wagons.  I’d prefer 2 doors and a 3rd row but it IS a Merc.

Trundling down to Huntington Beach, the SVdP show was smaller than we expected, but the food fair was larger.  We saw:

– The Butter Bus, a ’57 VW used for delivery.

— Read the story.

– A ’20 T touring

Scot