Daily Archives: August 2, 2014
Told Ya!
Today is our last day here in Ohio for this year, and the real bummer, our last day with Nick and Terry for this year.
But Terry got the day off to a great start by calling me over to their rig about midnight to bring home a couple loaves of her delicious homemade bread and a plate of wonderful cookies.
And after a nice, slow morning, we all headed back over to Lebanon, OH to check out some of the shops and old homes. But what we found was a large street fair and car show going on the downtown.
So after avoiding the $5 and $10 parking lots, we finally found a parking spot and walked around for an hour or so, checking the shops, stands, and, especially, the cars.
This is one that I haven’t seen before. It’s a very nice 1929 Essex. Made between 1918 and 1932, Essex started out as a Hudson Automobile subsidiary, before becoming just another model in the Hudson line in 1922.
In fact, by 1929 Essex was third in sales behind Ford and Chevrolet.
When Nick and I caught a glimpse of this one as we drove by, we thought it was a Chevy, but when we got close, found it was a 1933 Plymouth.
This photo doesn’t do this 1939 Ford Coupe justice. It looks white in this photo, but it’s actually a deep lustrous pearl. Coats and coats of pearl lacquer.
This beauty is a 1948 Buick luxury touring model, and even has power windows.
In 1948!
This 1976 Stutz Blackhawk is the first one I’ve ever seen in person. Manufactured from 1971 to 1987 by the Stutz Motor Company, the body was handcrafted in Ghia in Italy and then shipped to the US where it was mated with a GM chassis and engine.
The body had 22 coats of hand-rubbed lacquer that took six weeks to apply. The Blackhawk was so prized that they were reserved years in advance. In fact, Elvis Presley outbid Frank Sinatra for the first one. And at one time Elvis own 4 Blackhawks.
Other notable owners included Lucille Ball, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lewis, Liberace, and Willie Nelson. The Shah of Iran reportedly owned twelve of them.
Although very popular with the rich crowd, they were finally done in by changes in US auto safety laws.
This is a 1951 Chevrolet Coupe pulling a 1976 Jayco camper.
I like the period radio on the shelf.
After driving around a while longer, we stopped off at a nice used bookstore for a while, before ending up at the Acapulco Mexican Restaurant about 4pm. This is the same place we ate at this past Tuesday with the Boggs family of The Boggs Family Ministries, and it was so good we had to do it again.
Jan had her Pollo Loco and I had the Carnitas Acapulco, both the same as last time, while Nick and Terry went with the Shrimp Quesadilla, which they said was really good.
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Under the heading, See I Told You They Were Good For You, a recent study shows that the main ingredient in chili peppers, dietary capsaicin, significantly decreases the chance of colorectal and bowel cancer, lowers blood pressure, boosts memory, and increases longevity as much as 30%.
And all ya’ll thought I was just crazy. Not saying I’m not, but I was right about this.
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Thought for the Day:
“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.” —Abraham Lincoln
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