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Enjoy, and may the Porsche be with you...
- George
Cars and Coffee
On the large lot of Classic BMW Plano, Texas Cars and Coffee Dallas holds a car show on the first Saturday of each month. The event goes for 4 hours from 8am to 12pm. There are lots of cars and a great deal of coffee as well. Check out our Photo and Video page for some cool videos I found out on YouTube. I wasn't prepared for the excitement and volume of cars that I found - there were around 300 cars on display. You simply show up with your ride and there is a guy that directs you to the proper section for whatever it is you are in. For most of us it was just taking in all of the sights and sounds. My wife and I went this last Saturday and there was everything from '54 Sting Rays to some Corvette Grand Sport Editions, a Bentley convertible, a classic Rolls Royce and a beautiful Mercedes Benz stretch sedan. Also found were beautifully restored VW Bugs, new and older Mustangs, Shelby's, Vipers and yes a BMW or two and a really awesome '60 Impala that made me envious.
Forgive me for the photography - I took these pics with my iPhone and it's the older model. Next time I'll be prepared for the show. My wife and I learned about the car show a while back while sitting at the traffic light next to the dealership - as you see with the videos on the Photos and Videos page, Dude's will get on it when they leave the lot...such was the case on this particular day. I checked the Classic BMW website and discovered this was a regular event. It has been on my calendar to do ever since, but this was the first opportunity when nothing else was interfering with the time table. Take a look - here's the Cars and Coffee website. Check it out and when in town, or at one of the other locations, take it in. You won't be disappointed.
-George
Forgive me for the photography - I took these pics with my iPhone and it's the older model. Next time I'll be prepared for the show. My wife and I learned about the car show a while back while sitting at the traffic light next to the dealership - as you see with the videos on the Photos and Videos page, Dude's will get on it when they leave the lot...such was the case on this particular day. I checked the Classic BMW website and discovered this was a regular event. It has been on my calendar to do ever since, but this was the first opportunity when nothing else was interfering with the time table. Take a look - here's the Cars and Coffee website. Check it out and when in town, or at one of the other locations, take it in. You won't be disappointed.
Some I Wish I Had Back...
My first car doesn't necessarily fall into that category but we all start somewhere,right? My Dad decided to help me get into my first car. So we would go out on the weekends cruising the used car lots on the north side of town. I always headed for something that Dad either didn't want me to have or that he couldn't afford. This went on for several weeks with Dad and I getting further apart on what to agree on instead of closer together. Then one day I came home from my part-time job after school and parked in the driveway is a green 1951 Plymouth station wagon that appears to have been painted with a paint brush!! When I go in the house and ask who owns the car, Dad says "You do!" Turns out he had bought it from a guy he works with for 150.00. I loved my Dad too much to let him see how disappointed I was, so I acted excited and really I was - sort of. After all, it was a set of wheels! And it was mine!
I drove the Plymouth for a few months and then started having trouble with the motor, so we traded it in on a 1954 Bel-Air 2-dr post 6 cyl with standard transmission. It was light yellow with black vinyl interior. It was a nice little car. It originally had full wheel covers and skirts but I took those off and added chrome reverse smoothies with moons and split the manifold so I could run duals and glass packs. I had the '54 for about a year while I attended my first year of junior college. I then traded for a 1964 Corvair Monza Spyder. It was also yellow with black interior. The Spyder was a flat six that was turbo charged. I liked the Spyder but I had chronic troubles with the side mounted single carb and the turbo unit so I sold it and bought a 1955 Chevy 2-dr post. It had the 6 cyl with standard trans and it was the 210 model. It was baby blue with medium blue interior and had under dash air conditioning. It was a great car. Super dependable and solid as a rock. I owned the '55 for about 7 years and eventually painted it '74 Corvette metallic gray, redid the interior and split the manifold and installed 8 x 15 Corvette Rally wheels with BFG white letter radials. I always wanted to drop in a small block and four-speed but never had the money or time. Then I got married, got a house and when times got tough I sold the '55. Can you spell stupid, I can!
Well,that's where I stop for now. More when I get the time! Thanks for your time.
Gary -
I drove the Plymouth for a few months and then started having trouble with the motor, so we traded it in on a 1954 Bel-Air 2-dr post 6 cyl with standard transmission. It was light yellow with black vinyl interior. It was a nice little car. It originally had full wheel covers and skirts but I took those off and added chrome reverse smoothies with moons and split the manifold so I could run duals and glass packs. I had the '54 for about a year while I attended my first year of junior college. I then traded for a 1964 Corvair Monza Spyder. It was also yellow with black interior. The Spyder was a flat six that was turbo charged. I liked the Spyder but I had chronic troubles with the side mounted single carb and the turbo unit so I sold it and bought a 1955 Chevy 2-dr post. It had the 6 cyl with standard trans and it was the 210 model. It was baby blue with medium blue interior and had under dash air conditioning. It was a great car. Super dependable and solid as a rock. I owned the '55 for about 7 years and eventually painted it '74 Corvette metallic gray, redid the interior and split the manifold and installed 8 x 15 Corvette Rally wheels with BFG white letter radials. I always wanted to drop in a small block and four-speed but never had the money or time. Then I got married, got a house and when times got tough I sold the '55. Can you spell stupid, I can!
Well,that's where I stop for now. More when I get the time! Thanks for your time.
Gary -
Where it began for me
I guess my love of everything that moves on wheels began with my grandfather. He drove a Mack truck for a local grain company in Vernon, Tx. When my parents would bring me to visit he would stop by his house to say hello between grain runs. If he was on the way to the shipping yard he would load me in the cab with him and stand me on the seat beside him. On the ride he would point to cars approaching us on the highway and tell me what make and year they were and how to tell the difference between a Hudson and a Ford, or a Studebaker and a Plymouth. Some of those monikers don't exist in the autoworld makers anymore. So it developed into a contest. I would see if I could identify the next car before he could. I think he might have let me win sometimes?
So, very early, I was ADDICTED! It didn't matter what it was as long as it had wheels. Now jump ahead, High school. The coolest kid in school had a '55 Bel-Air 2 door hardtop. Straight axle front end, 396 4-speed, ladder bars, custom paint, I hated him and loved his car. He had "his" parking spot at school next to the metal shop, of course. And nobody parked in that spot even if you got there ahead of him. He was too cool, and he boxed in Golden Gloves, so, better safe than sorry! My first big car crush.
Second big car crush. My sister dated a guy for a while that had TWO cars! Jeez! Car number one:' 55 Chevy 2-door post,327 2-4's,headers, 4-speed and Morbec mags! Car number two: '67 Corvette convertible, 327 4-speed, side pipes, American 5 spokes. Nice guy though in spite of his cars. Oh, sorry, the crush was for the Corvette, but I loved the '55 also.
Third car crush---and probably the worst. It's 1968 and I'm doing my first year of what was suppose to be four years of college. We don't have to finish that story. I have a class with a guy who seems to be just like everybody else, except he's NOT! He and I hit it off and start hanging out together talking, what else, cars and girls of course. So this guy drives a '68 Grand Prix. OK, no really big deal, right? But, this one was special ordered with a 4-speed! Believe me not very many of those. So I'm kinda impressed. But he says he doesn't like it as much as he thought he would and Daddy has promised to help him get into something else. The next week he comes into the cafeteria wearing a Ford Racing jacket and asks if I want to go see his new car? We go to the parking lot and guess what he walks up to? A brand new 1968 Shelby Mustang Cobra! White with blue stripes, black interior, 427 4-speed, posi-track MONSTER! I'm still trying to get my breath and he says "Crap, I'm gonna be late for class!" "Here" and tosses me the keys and says to be back in an hour to pick him up so we can go to lunch! Heaven for an hour. Incredible car.
Car crush #4 While I was going to college I was driving a 1963 Olds Starfire coupe. Maroon, with white leather interior, buckets, console, floor shift. I loved this car and it was a faithful, dependable friend for many years. And it ran good for a big car. It had a 394 Olds motor with gobs of torque and rode like a dream. Good for the highway.
Car crush #5 It's 1970 and I go with my dad to help him look for a used car. Instead I end up buying a 1966 Impala Super Sport. Red, red interior, 396 325 hp 4-speed with the optional console gauge package. Dad buys a white 1966 Impala 2-dr coupe off the same dealer the same day! I loved the SS, ran great and looked good. I had it for 2 years until it was stolen,stripped and left for dead one night.
Well that's my first installment, more in the future. Much more!
Gary -
So, very early, I was ADDICTED! It didn't matter what it was as long as it had wheels. Now jump ahead, High school. The coolest kid in school had a '55 Bel-Air 2 door hardtop. Straight axle front end, 396 4-speed, ladder bars, custom paint, I hated him and loved his car. He had "his" parking spot at school next to the metal shop, of course. And nobody parked in that spot even if you got there ahead of him. He was too cool, and he boxed in Golden Gloves, so, better safe than sorry! My first big car crush.
Second big car crush. My sister dated a guy for a while that had TWO cars! Jeez! Car number one:' 55 Chevy 2-door post,327 2-4's,headers, 4-speed and Morbec mags! Car number two: '67 Corvette convertible, 327 4-speed, side pipes, American 5 spokes. Nice guy though in spite of his cars. Oh, sorry, the crush was for the Corvette, but I loved the '55 also.
Third car crush---and probably the worst. It's 1968 and I'm doing my first year of what was suppose to be four years of college. We don't have to finish that story. I have a class with a guy who seems to be just like everybody else, except he's NOT! He and I hit it off and start hanging out together talking, what else, cars and girls of course. So this guy drives a '68 Grand Prix. OK, no really big deal, right? But, this one was special ordered with a 4-speed! Believe me not very many of those. So I'm kinda impressed. But he says he doesn't like it as much as he thought he would and Daddy has promised to help him get into something else. The next week he comes into the cafeteria wearing a Ford Racing jacket and asks if I want to go see his new car? We go to the parking lot and guess what he walks up to? A brand new 1968 Shelby Mustang Cobra! White with blue stripes, black interior, 427 4-speed, posi-track MONSTER! I'm still trying to get my breath and he says "Crap, I'm gonna be late for class!" "Here" and tosses me the keys and says to be back in an hour to pick him up so we can go to lunch! Heaven for an hour. Incredible car.
Car crush #4 While I was going to college I was driving a 1963 Olds Starfire coupe. Maroon, with white leather interior, buckets, console, floor shift. I loved this car and it was a faithful, dependable friend for many years. And it ran good for a big car. It had a 394 Olds motor with gobs of torque and rode like a dream. Good for the highway.
Car crush #5 It's 1970 and I go with my dad to help him look for a used car. Instead I end up buying a 1966 Impala Super Sport. Red, red interior, 396 325 hp 4-speed with the optional console gauge package. Dad buys a white 1966 Impala 2-dr coupe off the same dealer the same day! I loved the SS, ran great and looked good. I had it for 2 years until it was stolen,stripped and left for dead one night.
Well that's my first installment, more in the future. Much more!
Gary -
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