Back to the 50's? (aka moving Tim's post down)

Well, it is almost time for the first real sunburn of the year (or at least for me since I stay inside all day and never see the sun (actually I just want to be like the cool kids from Twilight (and let's never mention that movie again on here))). That's right. Back to the 50's. The annual car show that dominates the state fairgrounds more than something that gets dominated really hard (I couldn't come up with a David Carradine joke, so that's all you're going to get). Oh sure, I can tell you that it takes up the whole fairgrounds. But that doesn't really sink in until you're actually there and after 3 hours of walking you realize you've barely covered half of the show. And then you can start to feel the sunburn. I included these pictures to give you an idea of what you mostly see there. So let's run through these. Pic 1: A bunch of old people walking around, some dude in a muscle shirt, rockin a sweet goatee/stasch combo platter that is popular with Beer League Softball players, oh yeah and an Ardun engined rod (finally got to say "rod", he he). Not the most traditional styled vehicle there but still not bad. At least he has vintage style tires. Which leads us into pic 2. And this one is the more common style at BTT50's (I just made that up, in case you couldn't tell). Some takes a bunch of new parts and puts them with some old stuff and put a huge engine in it. Which I'm not saying is the wrong way to do it but it doesn't seem as cool. I mean the dual Demon carbs mounted on top of a light bending blower, is pretty fucking sweet. But new style white wall tires, weak. Probably "faked" bullet holes in the side panels, extra weak. Some dude in combat boots and shorts, not my thing (but maybe Adam Lamberts). Oh well, to each his own. And if you feel like walking about 3,000 miles around the state fairgrounds (and they do have corn dogs, lemonade, and other fair type food) next weekend, let me know. And to make things even better, and thanks to my ol' buddy Lance, we may have a free pass in. Nice.