Miscellaneous Ramblings and Musings From The Coronado Speed Festival

-by Hunsbloger: I miss Andy Rooney on Sunday nights.  As I get older and my eyebrows are starting to look more like his, I'm beginning to understand how certain things just caught his attention, even though they escaped the notice of others (Squirrel!)  Vince gave a more complete account of the races, so I figured I'd pry the microphone out of Andy's cold dead fingers to point out some of the things that would have otherwise gone unnoticed.  (Feel free to read in his voice)

 "What're you thinking?" or "Ethan Hunt's Car" 

Someone having taken the time to get up extra early in the morning, drove early to the base, paid extra to get their car parked in  the car show area, only to leave it protected from the admiring gaze of the public...by leaving it under cover all day. Don't waste your time trying to decode the model of car cover as it was made by the now defunct North Coast Tarpaulin Works and there is no online catalog.

The Importance of Being Earnest About An Unused Peugeot

Oscar Wilde once famously wrote: "What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." We at DT don't claim to know the price of everything, but we do understand the value in nothing...more specifically information missing from a car listing. When the one-owner Peugeot 404 story posted, one of DT's extended staff just didn't like what he saw...so a net was dragged over the world wide web to find the real story behind this oddly unused Frenchthing. 

DT Musings: Old Lincolns Not at the LA Auto Show

Referring to the Lincoln pics from yesterday, we thought it might be useful to also provide a quick reference of some of the used Lincoln’s that are outside the 2012 LA Auto show on Ebay this week.  Afterall, there's nothing like leaving a car show and heading straight to Ebay to sate your lust for used Lincolns!!  Your time is valuable, so we've done some searching for you and found these. 

DT Musings: Rambling Thoughts on Sportswagon & Vista Cruiser

DT's resident wagon expert, Buick-nut, paint-snob and grandpa (while technically not a grandpa as far as he is aware, his hair has been fully gray for decades) Hunsbloger started a long dialogue about SportsWagons, Vista Cruisers and the general state of 60's wagons today.  It was too good of a conversation to just send to our trash-bin, so we've saved it and posted it up here (-Ed's note)

I am a HUGE fan of these Vista Roof cruisers and EBAY is flush with them today!  In addition to the one above, there are two others joining in to represent the full spectrum of the first generation of Sportwagon/Vista Cruisers.  They also represent,  three different situations which present challenges when trying to figure out which car is the right one for you on Ebay.

 Regarding the big vista glass windows letting in too much light...No worries about the sun in the back seats of the Vista Roof Wagons from Buick or Olds, they have oversized Sun Visors which do a great job of blocking the sun when the kids in the back need a nap! (seen in the picture below)