Summer’s last fling

Taking a day off from the political world today, more or less. It was a nice day to get out and take a bike ride, and also go check these out.

People and cars at the last Salisbury Cruise-In for 2006.

Today was the last Salisbury Cruise-In for 2006. It’s an event that’s near and dear to my place of residence since they have these in front of the K-Mart on Business Route 50. This year they had the events on the third Saturday of the month and October’s was the finale.

If you ever saw my computer’s screen saver you’d notice there were two main sources of pictures on it – one being baseball players in various phases of the game and the other being classic cars. When it comes to mechanical things like cars I’m pretty much all thumbs but I sure admire the styling and the hard work that the people who do this for a hobby go through to keep these cars looking so fantastic.

Decorating their 1970 Buick for the season.

Of course, some conceded that the bewitching holiday was upon us.

A 1967 Camaro SS.

There must have been a lot of Chevy dealers on the Shore back in the 1960’s and 1970’s because I see a lot of Chevy products at the shows (like this sharp black Camaro SS.) On the other hand, for the first time in my days here on the Eastern Shore I saw a classic AMC car today (actually it was a Nash Rambler.) Being from a town that made AMC products for a time, I miss seeing Javelins at the car shows. Still haven’t found one of those here.

One for my dad's generation to recall.

Obviously I like to see the cars I grew up with such as the Camaros, Mustangs, ‘Cudas, and Javelins. But a lot of people bring the really classic cars out too, like this 1948 Chevy that was restored.

While this is the last Salisbury Cruise-In, there’s another event in two weeks that Wheels That Heal (the car club that does these monthly cruise-ins) will hold and it’s to benefit Toys For Tots. It’s going to be on November 4th at the American Legion Post No. 64 on Route 50 west in Salisbury from 11 to 3. Fortunately this is a “rain or shine” event, obviously there’s room inside for these classics. But nothing beats seeing these shining on a bright sunny afternoon like today’s was. There’s not going to be too many more days to see these beauties before they’re garaged for the winter.

And, by the way, tomorrow you’ll be able to get back to all the links if you have a screen like mine. Put this up and it killed half my right column. Oh well.

Author: Michael

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