Re: [FWDLK] Car show in Moultrie GA

Ray: Actually 99% of the cars in this show were for sale and many buyers had them cleaned up as if they were being judged. As opposed to a show, they called it a car coral. Mine was not there because I went to talk to Coker tires about a set of radials as the bias ties scare me that I have on there now, although like new WW tires. Coker wanted, with discount about $170 a tire and I am not ready to pay that. What I am thinking now is to buy some inexpensive radials locally for daily driving and keep the spare set of wheels (the G78x15 polyester WW Remington’s tires/rims mounted) to take to show whenever I get to that point.

I am having better results getting some parts, like new OEM steering parts, boots for the u-joints, new OEM clip-on mirrors ,etc out of Canada, as Mopars have a long history up there and still are popular.

My next show is the Amelia Island Concurs next to the Ritz-Carlton on Amelia Island FL. RM has an auction on Saturday and you are free to look at all of the cars Friday afternoon or Saturday morning whether part of the auction or not. The show on Sunday will have examples of cars that many will have only read about or seen in a picture. Each year features a marquee and each year a famous car personality. Bobby Unser and Carol Shelby are recent. The cost of the Concours on Sunday is $40. Here is a link for anyone interested:

http://www.ameliaconcours.org/home.asp

I have driven cars in the RM auction and was in absolute heaven in a 300 gullwing, a Tucker, a real Chrysler Town and Country (1948?) , a Cord with its weird solenoid control twist shift, a Marmon (which was absolutely stunning).

Northeast Florida Hospice has benefited from this annual event, to-date, for well over a million dollars so it is all for a good cause. Actually some Hospice staff started it, it became too big for part-timers to manage and was taken over by an organization established by Bill Warner.

Hope to see some of you there. For me it is a day trip since I live on the west side of the same county (45 miles away).

Tom

From: Ray Jones [mailto:hurst300@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 2:41 PM
To: Tom Taylor
Cc: L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [FWDLK] Car show in Moultrie GA

Hi Tom;
I assume that all 1000 cars were NOT for sale, but most of them on display. If so, and having only 20 Mopars there, was one of them yours? That would have made 21.

I've also found that there are often more people looking/commenting on the Mopars than the "Others" on display. How many 57 Chevys can you look at in a day anyway? Of course, when you have a beautiful Chrysler 300 E and you hear people saying to each other that "My dad had a Dodge just like that, 'cept it was a 4 door", it gets a little discouraging.

As to parts, yes only a few at most shows, but the owners don't know or care much about them and they usually go cheap.

As to Father/son, my son and I looked for 4 years at every show/flea market held at Carlisle, PA, that's 4-5 a year one of which is all Mopar, and could not find a pair of front fenders for his '71 'Cuda. Then finally, I found a pair, reasonably priced, and when we met up at noon, he had found 3 sets, not including the set I found. Ya never know. We did often see many families hunting parts there years ago.

Hoping to hit a few shows myself this year, Ray

On Feb 5, 2006, at 4:35 AM, Tom Taylor wrote:

I spent yesterday walking around the event looking at parts and cars for sale. Out of probably 1000 vehicles maybe 20 MOPARS were present and out of that, two 1950 Plymouths, a 42 Chrysler, an early 60s Desoto and the rest Darts and either real or cloned Superbird and Charger 500. There was one hemi-challenger that was a pretty car.

As to be expected, the majority of the vehicles there were 55-57 Chevy, street rods and a lot of older and somewhat newer trucks. I guess we are all sitting on gold mines once Forward look cars catch on. There was a really nice Javelin there advertised for $7500 and some junk more popular cars there for same money. Guess Javelins are not the deal these days. Those old bullet nose Studes are still about the ugliest car I have seen leave a factory but I also understand that a warthog’s mama thinks he is cute. (IMHO)

As to be expected, there was zip there for Mopar parts.

I did get by the Coker Tire trailer and eyeballed the Goodrich WW tires that would fit my car and now just mulling giving up my beer budget to buy a set.

Happy Superbowl watching. I have the DVD set so I can watch the commercials later should I fall asleep. For the millions per minute paid for these ads, they are generally good to watch.

I was impressed that one father had his 6

th

or 7

th

grade son with him and they were looking for parts for a Studebaker that was to be the son’s project. The boy had a sign made of cardboard around him like a sandwich board stating that he needed parts for that particular car. I thought that was cool. Might as well as had one of those for myself but the kid was braver.

Tom Taylor

55 Coronet

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