{"id":8808,"date":"2012-01-20T11:19:56","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T18:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=8808"},"modified":"2012-02-02T10:48:47","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T17:48:47","slug":"car-mania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=8808","title":{"rendered":"Car Mania (Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8912\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8912\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/01-19-12_71.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8912\" title=\"Click image to enlarge\" src=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/01-19-12_71-450x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/01-19-12_71-450x180.jpg 450w, https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/01-19-12_71-300x120.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/01-19-12_71.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8912\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barrett-Jackson auto auction in Scottsdale, Arizona<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Three years ago I visited the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barrett-jackson.com\/events\/scottsdale\/\" target=\"_blank\">Barrett-Jackson auto auction<\/a> in Scottsdale, Arizona.\u00a0 I figured it&#8217;s been long enough, so yesterday I drove up again, this time with my friend Ed.\u00a0 It was a long day: two-and-a-half-hours on the freeway going and coming; another four or five hours tramping around the tent city at Barrett-Jackson, ogling all the beautiful cars.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>Update (1\/28\/12):<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halfmind\/sets\/72157629074529507\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to view my Flickr photose<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halfmind\/sets\/72157629074529507\/\" target=\"_blank\">t<\/a> from yesterday<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=1409\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to view my photos from three years ago<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The event runs from Tuesday, Jan 17th to Sunday, Jan 22nd.\u00a0 The auction itself doesn&#8217;t start until Wednesday, and it reaches critical mass during the weekend, when the really good stuff goes on the block.\u00a0 Last time I went on Tuesday, opening day, before the auction started.\u00a0 Not all the cars were on display yet, but plenty were, and I pretty much had the run of the place.<\/p>\n<p>This time I went on Thursday.\u00a0 With the auction underway, crowds were huge.\u00a0 It was like being at a state fair.\u00a0 People were constantly bumping into me &#8230; and I into them &#8230; and almost every time I tried to take a photo of an interesting car, someone would walk in front of my camera.<\/p>\n<p>Annoying crowds aside, Barrett-Jackson is probably the best car show on the planet, at least in terms of the number of cars there are to look at, and I&#8217;m glad I went.\u00a0 Ed has been to B-J many times, and he was a great guide.\u00a0 At his suggestion we opted for valet parking, which meant we didn&#8217;t have far to walk, and that turned out to be a prescient move: on our way out Ed stopped to dicker with a guy who restores old gasoline pumps, and we wound up carrying an old (and heavy) gas station air pump out with us.\u00a0 Thank goodness we didn&#8217;t have to walk a mile back to the car, as I did three years ago!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three years ago I visited the Barrett-Jackson auto auction in Scottsdale, Arizona.\u00a0 I figured it&#8217;s been long enough, so yesterday I drove up again, this time with my friend Ed.\u00a0 It was a long day: two-and-a-half-hours on the freeway going and coming; 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