Speaking of cars (see previous entry), I’m riding my motorcycle up to Scottsdale tomorrow to see the Barrett-Jackson Auction. Judging by the prices people pay for cars at B-J, I figured it probably cost a couple of hundred just to get in the gate. This year I took the trouble to Google ticket prices, and it turns out it’s only $15. Hell, I can afford that!
So I’m riding up in the morning. I’ll spend the day drooling over cars, then spend the night at my daughter’s apartment in Phoenix and ride home Wednesday. My first real outing since retirement.
I’m not interested in muscle cars, particularly the Chrysler products of the 60s and 70s. They were horrible cars: poorly made and unsafe (under-suspended, under-braked, under-everythinged save in the engine department). I can see why drag racers pay top dollar for good hemi engines. I can’t see why anyone would pay more than low Blue Book for an old Barracuda or Road Runner, unless all they really wanted was the engine.
No, my interests lean toward classics and antiques, which for me generally means anything made before 1960. When the Speed Channel airs the Barrett-Jackson Auction, they tend to focus on muscle cars at the expense of classics and antiques, but I bet there will be a ton of classics and antiques there. I hope I’ll be able to take photos. I hope there are Nashes there, especially Airflytes from 1949-1951 . . . I really have a thing for those cars, probably because my father had one when I was little.
Just keep me away from the auction hall . . . if they do have a Nash on the block, I’ll probably lose my head and bid on it!