Okay, so our annual car show (Caballeros de Yuma's "Midnight at the Oasis") has come and gone this weekend. As always, there were some excellent cars out there
And for the last few years, as always, I've been busy doing stuff so that, if I gewt out there at all; I have little or no time to get any really good pix
This year, I got a few; as I was jumping on and off a Polaris "golf cart", hauling trash and other stuff. Only 6 pictures were worth anything, so here they are:
As always, I'm gonna start with the absolute object of car-lust (at least for me):
Yes folks; an honest-to-God relatively unrestored East Coast survivor '68 Shelby GT500KR 'vert (1 of 318 KR vert's). Relatively means that the owner (second owner!) had the heads pulled and hardened valve seats installed (for unleaded fuel), had some of the leather upholstery restitched and also had the once-very-moldy convertible top replaced. Everything else is 100% original! Well, not true; the Doc had that front "fake plate" made because he wanted to keep the original Rhode Island front license plate in good shape. Oh yeah, he is the second owner of the car; having inherited it -literally- from his father, who originally bought it new in Providence.
(Hey Pak, did you hear that?)
EDIT: Since I'm much more in love with this car than I am with the idea of "originality"; the first thing I would do(if I outlived Dr. Miller and could buy the car from his kids) would be to find an outstanding painter-guy and have him re-shoot the Highland Green! She really needs new paint to show off her true beauty!
And for the last few years, as always, I've been busy doing stuff so that, if I gewt out there at all; I have little or no time to get any really good pix
This year, I got a few; as I was jumping on and off a Polaris "golf cart", hauling trash and other stuff. Only 6 pictures were worth anything, so here they are:
As always, I'm gonna start with the absolute object of car-lust (at least for me):
Yes folks; an honest-to-God relatively unrestored East Coast survivor '68 Shelby GT500KR 'vert (1 of 318 KR vert's). Relatively means that the owner (second owner!) had the heads pulled and hardened valve seats installed (for unleaded fuel), had some of the leather upholstery restitched and also had the once-very-moldy convertible top replaced. Everything else is 100% original! Well, not true; the Doc had that front "fake plate" made because he wanted to keep the original Rhode Island front license plate in good shape. Oh yeah, he is the second owner of the car; having inherited it -literally- from his father, who originally bought it new in Providence.
(Hey Pak, did you hear that?)
EDIT: Since I'm much more in love with this car than I am with the idea of "originality"; the first thing I would do(if I outlived Dr. Miller and could buy the car from his kids) would be to find an outstanding painter-guy and have him re-shoot the Highland Green! She really needs new paint to show off her true beauty!