I went to the annual Tucson Classics car show at St. Gregory’s Preparatory School this morning. As usual, I couldn’t resist snapping a few photos. Last year I concentrated on classic grilles and engines; this year I thought I’d concentrate on automotive lore from rock’n’roll. Like this:
Lincolns were huge, heavy cars; you rarely saw one rodded. What the famous song referred to was the practice of dropping a big Lincoln V-8 or V-12 engine into a Ford Model A frame. This one is a V-12 (count the plugs, not the pipes).
Here are a few more. Click any thumbnail to see the larger version:
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Here are a few other things that caught my eye:
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One last observation: of the hundreds of people milling about at the car show on this beautiful southern Arizona morning, I saw only two smokers. My God, not that many years ago almost everyone would have had cigarettes dangling from their lips!