Despite being a gray day , and chasing some electron gremlins in the Volvo , we got brave and made the thirty minute ride over to Bonny Eagle for the car show last Sunday . We were told there were over five hundred cars there , so it was impossible to photograph them all . We did do a quick walk through the American Muscle car section that had tons of Mustangs, Corvettes , Camaros , Chevelle's and GTOs of all flavors , but as it's not really what motivates me I did not get any photos of them .
Here are some of the ones I found interesting .
We got to park among some fine British convertibles .
The only Volvo besides ours was Joe Kendal's pristine 1971 142 .
One of the ones that caught my eye was this 1975 Super Beetle , as my first car was exactly this in grasshopper green .
An earlier highly modified Bug .
And a nearly original sixties vintage one .
A 4WD double cab Synchro imported from Holland by this lady .
Even a crazy custom sand rail .
What externally appears to be a Bug is not at all. In fact it is some kind of UTV with a bug tub on it .
There were of course some higher brow vintage examples like this mint 1967 Mercedes 250 .
Our friends Marty and Margaret were brave to ride his home built Mini-Moke all the way from Ossipee NH in the drizzle . This is NOT a factory built Moke . This is something Marty built from scratch , from a pile of parts he collected over the years . Frame and sheet metal are all his own handy work .
Using the "sewing machine motor" and drive-line pulled from his Mini-Cooper when he replaced that for the Mazda engine in it now .
Among the other special interest types was this smart Ford Van conversion .
This Cab Over Engine except now its a mid engine .
And a wild WW2 vintage Jeep with some kind of Caterpillar turbo diesel on airbags .
An old International Harvester wrecker .
And a 55 Chevy rat truck . . .
. . . with a unique finish that really really popped in the rain .
A 37 Packard with no finish .
A crazy chopped and slammed Pontiac Silver Streak . . .
. . . that really caught my eye . . .
. . . perhaps because the lines are not all that different than my own Volvo .
Chief Pontiac Hood ornament gleaming in the drizzle .
With no windows that will surely be a wet ride home .
No I'd never do this to my Volvo .
This had to be without a doubt the noisiest machine there . The engine is a humongous Detroit diesel from an old airport snow blower .
There were of course some much more refined and expertly done up vehicles .
As was this most meticulously restored 67? Ford F100 . The owner was able to track down the original 93 year old owner and share with him a book with all the photos of the restoration .
A lovely 110 inch Landrover in classic blue
An immaculate 1980 Toyota Celica
with less than 60K miles on the clock .
An eight foot bed early Ford ranger with a small block V8 in mint condition
A late model Subaru WRX that like so many of them blew a head gasket at 200K miles . . .
. . . . so the owner replaced it with a 6.2 liter Vortec / LS V8
A behemoth Lincoln Cosmopolitan survivor that the owner managed to sell at the show .
Probably the oldest car at the show was this 1913 Buick with carbide gas headlights that will be in for a wet ride back to Parsonsfield .
Awards done by 2 pm , Marty and Margaret head out back to Ossipee in the rain .
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