I had a chance this past weekend to visit the
Blackhawk Auto Museum near Danville, CA (East SFBay). I'm sure a bunch of you have been there already, but for those who don't know about it, I want to encourage you to go. It's well worth the price of admission.
The Blackhawk Auto Museum has a collection of rare and historic cars the likes of which I've never seen before. We're talking
really old in most cases, with the bulk of the collection being centered around the 20s and 30s, although there are earlier cars there (bicycles with steam engines, basically) and some as late as 1968 (a Ferarri). There's an emphasis on art-deco cars as well. Sorry, no muscle cars. Still, the cars there are immaculately preserved and/or restored, and represent the finest examples of their species, including a 1948 Tucker.
What I never really realized about these old cars, and won't be apparant from these pictures, is their size. Some of these cars are simply monstrous in size, more like standing next to a train than a car. I can't imagine parallel parking these beasts. The funny thing about it is that some of the largest examples are actually two seaters. Go figure.
Anyway, here are the promised pictures:
http://www.darkbox.com/mustang/blackhawk/1948tucker.jpg
http://www.darkbox.com/mustang/blackhawk/1926daimler.jpg
http://www.darkbox.com/mustang/blackhawk/monster.jpg
http://www.darkbox.com/mustang/blackhawk/protohotrod.jpg
Joe Bob Says Check It Out.