Amuse Buche

Today, as part of the annual 'Rattlesnake Roundup' here in South Florida (a Cobra rally which involves a lot of strutting, some serious driving with professional instruction at the Palm Beach track, and some social stuff), I accompanied the bunch of them to a private showing of a warehouse full of an antique car collection. The guy who owns this started out as a mechanic back in 1962 and has his original Corvette that he hunted down after years of investigation. All these cars are pristine, heavy finned behemuths that we all remember, but the setting is what is amazing. he has a warehouse the size of a football field all set up with maquettes around the room from the proper eras. In the center is an authentic restored merry go round. There is a drive-in theater that was showing a Frankie Avalon beach movie today, a gas station complete with fake and real grease monkeys, a pharmacy, a soda shop, and much more. Even the bathroom had that boomerang formica throughout. So, unfortunately, all I had was my iPhone (which I simply must get upgraded one of these days) so I aplogise for the quality of the pictures but it was simply wonderful to see all these cars so beautifully maintained.



My personal favorite that I would have driven right out of there given a chance! A NASH! Of all things to capture my heart...



This I took to give to my SIL an BIL because they bought our T-bird last year. Now they know what an original one looked like.
Here is one row of the drive-in complete with speakers and trays set into the windows, not to mention the bench seats which allowed for all sorts of nookie that bucket seats killed. Check out the big cheezy moon.

It was so cold today I had to wear my wool scarf and mittens so was glad to not spend too much time outside looking at rows and rows of more cars, including the rows of Cobras in every available color with their little hoods up awaiting inspection. (I would have stolen a maroon 1935 Ford pick-up if no one was looking from this bunch! How could I resist a truck that said Acme Dynamite Company from Sparks Nevada on it's doors?) I just love old cars, wish I could have one again, but we only have a one car garage and the Cobra has to live in there. Sigh.


Hard to see this tiny image but it's a darling little metal box made from an Al-u-MIN-ium drink can, and the full directions are a video here. Perfect little ring box, but you have to make two.


So, today I found a guy in the UK, Edward Horsford, who photographs exploding water balloons. The images are amazing and with a bit of hunting I found this article about how he does it.