Cmac....What a GREAT POST!!!.....:huepfenic....... Love it!!!!!!!

I'll bet Florida would be another place with enough concentration of wealth to make for well represented shows.

Oh man, I saw a Lotus Europa at an auto show one time, late 60s, the sort where you could crawl inside and in the case of the Europa, "crawl" is the correct word. I imagine they were a fun car to drive, especially with the bigger twin cam engine but for a guy my size, and I'm not huge (6'0"), it was very hard to get in and out and not too comfy while there.

Oh well. I guess I'll stick to the Ferrari 330 GTC.

Something for everyone . . .
 

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An old Studey:

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Paging R. Leo:

I believe this was circa 1930s, had 4 huge pistons, around 1500 cubic inches IIRC.

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Good heavens Carl, when will this tantalizing show of pictures ever end?

There was a lot of stuff there for sure. I guess between the Country Squires living in Woodside and Los Altos and the Silicon Valley millionaires there were a LOT of cars that could be coaxed to a get together like this.

Some serious wealth resides around there. A visit to the Stanford Shopping Center is always enough to remind you of that.

The Jeep wagon with the little trailer is pretty cute. Quite a few of those can still be found in South America, to this day, in fact, some strange and modern looking ones were built in Brazil to about 1961 or so, if I recall.
They are the direct ancestor of the Jeep Grand Cherokee of today!

The red Packard convertible is pretty cool. When I was in grade school, some kid had stolen the hood ornament, the Packard Swan bird, and mounted it on the fender of his Schwinn bicycle!!! I had forgotten that till I saw the red convertible in your picture.

What memories some of those cars trigger for me.

As to the antique farm machinery, there is a society that restores those those and you can see a good collection at the California State Fair every year, and sometimes at Picnic Day (April) at the UC Davis campus......

I've exhausted my pics from the show and not a minute too soon. I expect an e-mail from photobucket over this.

Actually, I'm not really sure what their policy is. They don't seem to have that much advertising on their site -- not sure how they make ends meet. :confused:

I'm happy enough to use their service.

That red convertible is a cutie, eh?

Very well done, great photo documentation!

I haven't seen the pics, for some reason,through my company line the pics don't display in the posts...must be a filter :(

Absolutely awesome. Kudos and ^^^^^ High Five!

Thanks, but . . . . I don't get it, you haven't seen the pics?

Maybe a library computer would do it.

I haven't until now, I noticed getting blank spaces where others see pics, previously, but I never followed up on finding out. "Photobucket" and other private picture storage is filtered on my company T1 line....that must be why I didn't see them.

That's were I am at the moment...

BTW, the camera does a real good job, the color rendition is very good, so is the exposure, which means it has an effective metering sensor.

Fantastic pics Carl, thanks for sharing!

Wow cool show, looks like there was something for everyone!

Those Ferrari's are just porn, really really good porn...:cool::D

Thank you for sharing those pictures!

I'm happy to see you found another shot with the two 810's in it - would love to have the convertible!

(there is a company that makes kit-cars/replicas...but they want $30k+)

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I love that Barchetta (your first car pictured). It looks very original. The seat covers could be original or not. I love the looks of them. I admire the owner's decision to just use it. I can imagine he spent a good sum to get all the mechanicals working. If restored you'd not want to risk dings and such so it would probably become relegated to garage and trailer queen.

I used to have that 59 GT 250 pf coupe. I did pretty much all the work on it while I owned it. I had the engine apart, rebuilt the brakes and carburators, had the wheels rebuilt. The cars were built to run in the 24 race at lemans so all the parts are very high quality if they are important in a race. Door latch handles and such maybe not so much. Each individual part in a Ferrari is just like any other car. Levers and springs and bolts, etc. There are just a lot more of everything in a 12 cylinder car. They carry a lot of oil pressure, over 100 psi when cold and will keep going even if the bearings and such are worn.

I'd not run around with no air cleaner as he is though. I imagine he did not want the hood open because someone might think it was cute to drop something into the carbs.

The one in the tent with a small #15 on the side is a SWB 250. Direct predecessor to the GTO and very similar mechanically. The open car below could be a Testa Rosa or might be a 750 LM. The Testa rossas are sort of known for having the cut away front fender but some were fully enclosed as this one is. I found other pictures showing the engine and I am pretty sure it is a testa rossa.

If it were a 750 it would have an inlne six instead of a v12.

The 250 LM came right after the GTO and had the engine behind the driver. Otherwise it had a lot of styling cues from the second series GTO.

The cars called 250 were all 3 liter V12s. The 250 is the displacement of one cylinder. (250 x 12 = 3 liters).