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1932 Packard-Like New

On Friday August 16th, the City of Pacific Grove held its annual classic cars on the street. As usual, one of our main streets was the landing zone for about 100 classic and luxury cars and trucks. The cars lined Lighthouse Avenue 4 deep in most of the 10 or so blocks of the exhibition.

To me, one or two vehicles “stole the show” and were clearly heads above the others. That was the case for the 1932 Packard pictured below.

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The gentlemen with the straw hat is the father of the owner who is to his left in a blue shirt. I was told by dad that his son bought the car from a family that owned and stored in a garage for many years. The son did some restorations and cleaning , but not much because the car was in really good shape.

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This car was right out of a film about Al Capone.

Also, I have over 50 pictures from Street Car Day 2019 in Pacific Grove. Just trying to figure out the best way to present them. Stand By.

We Are Back, But With Changes

We started this website in 2001 to capture cars you don’t see everyday. Our last post, before this revival and name change was in 2016. But several things have changed since 2016. We moved to a small town near Monterey California right next to Pebble Beach. As it turns out each year this famed golf course community hosts an event called Concours d’Elegance which is a long-running classic car extravaganza that startles a full week with car based activities each August. These events take place in and around Pebble Beach and my new community is called Pacific Grove.

Also, now that I am retired, I can devote some valuable time to maintaining the website. It’s fun but it doest take time.

But given the excitement around classic cars in my new neighborhood, I have modified the rules. One example is I dis-allowed pictures taken at organized car shows or auctions (with one noted exception). Here are the new rules.

To see the new rules, click on the link below.
http://cars-ydse.com/?page_id=7

1940 Ford Pickup

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This truck was parked right outside of a Peets Coffee shop just a few blocks from my home in San Francisco. To me, it had recently been restored and it looked like a job really done well. I did not get a chance to look at the interior ( I forgot ) but every other detail of the restored truck looked great.

I could not find much information on this particular make and modeyear but I did find a quote on a site called How Stuff Works. It reads:

Improved engineering and handsome styling made the 1940-1941 Ford half-ton pickup a popular choice among truck buyers in the 1940s.

Ford’s chief designer E.T. “Bob” Gregorie gave the all-new 1940 light-duty trucks the crisp, clean “prow front” styling of the 1939-1940 passenger cars, and this carried over to the 1941 Ford truck line.

Fall Colors & VW Beetle

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Well, you may see one of these generic VWs everyday but not framed by the fall colors. This particular VW belongs to one of my neighbors. He parked right next to my driveway right after a series of rainstorms, thus the collection of leaves surrounding the car. Rust, in this case, is not a bad thing.

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I’ll Bet You’ve Never Seen This Car Before!

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I was on a walking tour in San Francisco climbing and walking down endless pubic staircases. About a block of the trail, we made a wrong turn and wound up in this cul-de-sac. Well maybe it was fate because there was this car, a Toyota, I think. There were about 15 of us on the trek. Most thout this car was “Way Cool”.

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