Only Falcon XABC Coupe on the day - but it was a ripper
The Queanbeyan Swap Meet is held in conjunction with two car shows - the Ford, GM, Chrysler Day and the American Car Day. This post is about the Ford's that were on display on the Saturday. I will post about Ford cars that appeared on the Sunday, in the near future. The focus of this post is Aussie and English fords (OK, a few US cars as well).
Interesting profiles. Only the front panels and floorpan are interchangeable between the sedan and coupe. Even the windscreen glass is different.
I recently visited Newstead in Central Victoria. While walking around, I noticed this very nice 32 Ford roadster. I wandered over and saw a few people in the front yard of the house it was parked in front of. It turned out that these two cars are owned by Ryan Ford, who is incredibly busy running Chopped this weekend. On the way up the Hume I saw dozens of rods and customs heading the other direction. I will definitely go in 2015.
As usual rockabillys and hot rod fanciers headed to Summernats and showed off their preferred form of transport. They do stick out amongst the street machines and even though Rat Rods aren't my bag, you have to appreciate the work that goes into the rods that cruise around EPIC all weekend, and the ones that are entered and win prizes.
With the changes that have occurred in the last two years, maybe the Summernats organisers will invite Evil Elvis and Charlie Greaser to play at Summernats 2014 - a guaranteed way to get MORE HOT RODS attending.
Hello to all my long ignored blog readers. I thought I'd kick off 2013 with a video of the Summernats Supercruise down Northbourne Avenue from EPIC.
Last years Supercruise restarted a tradition that ended acrimoniously in the early 1990's following a riot. This year, the Summernats organisers negotiated with the ACT Government to allow some cars to cruise that are not able to be legally driven on the roads. This includes cars with enormous blowers protruding from their bonnets. The exact formula used by Summernats organisers in selecting cars for the cruise is unknown, but not all cars entered in Summernats are allowed to participate in the Supercruise.
I hope you enjoyed that. For reasons I wont bore you with I missed the cruise as it went into Civic, and caught it coming back! I set my camera on a light pole and also took some still shots with my ancient Konica digital camera.
Here are some of the better photos of better cars.
These are some of the cars that spectators arrived in. These were just cars near me!
The following cars were cruising along Northbourne, but not part of the Supercruise.
The paint on this Commodore is an irridescent metallic. My camera isnt good enough to capture the effect, I suspect you really need a mark one eyeball to do that.
Beautiful Monaro
Make sure you come back over the next few days as I post more photos of cars from Summernats 2013!
