When one of your "new" cars is no longer new.

I fell in love with this truck on the first test drive.
Nineteen years later that hasn't changed.

It's kind of a state of mind thing. Especially if you bought the vehicle brand new, and have held onto to it for a long time and a lot of miles. You always knew that it wasn't new anymore, (how could it be after 19 years?) but I can't help but think about it as one of my "new vehicles."

 Legends of the Fall: Part One

I wonder why?

There is a car that I found very impressive and appealing when it was introduced back in the 1990's

 More photos from the Niles Spring Fever car show.

Here's another photo of Rick's car. Forties are hot rod icons,
and it's easy to see why.

I just got home from my vacation after two days of driving. You might say that I'm taking the easy way out to constructing an entry, by simply posting pictures. That's sort of true, though I did work on some new posts while I was out of town.

 Rosebud.

If you have ever watched the movie Citizen Kane, you will remember his final dying words. He is in bed holding onto a snow globe, which falls out of his hands as he mutters the word, "Rosebud." Then he expires.

 Last weekend I actually participated in a car show!

Popcorn. We'll come back to this later.

The show was the Spring Fever car show, held in the Niles section of Fremont. It's a historic downtown type area that closes off several streets to allow the cars to be displayed.

 Before you buy an old car as a project;

photo source: MAACO.com
A fresh paint job can be a critical part of a hobby car project.

Better line up the resources that you'll need, beforehand.

Dream Builds:  The Ironhead Sportster. 

We didn't refer to them as Ironheads back in the Old Days.

This is an older post that I wrote well before I bought my current motorcycle. I had been giving the subject of buying and modifying a Sportster quite a bit thought. I decided to run this while I'm in the process of cleaning out my files.