I'm back from showing my 1979 Chrysler New Yorker 5th Ave (Wanda) off at Carlisle. It was pretty neat - I've never displayed a car in a show before. Wanda drew lots of praise - I know for a fact that a few people even voted her best in class (which is astounding to me considering how many incredible cars there were in Wanda's class).

Here are pics of Wanda and some from the car show as promised. It's very graphics heavy, sorry. I'll try to choose the best of the best. There's lots more pics in my photo album and they're very big.

Here's Wanda on day 1.


Judging. The hood's up to display the engine:


The engine is a 360 V8 w/ factory 4v Thermoquad carb. I spent a year (on and off) reconditioning the engine and trying to get it to run properly. It's still *cough* a work-in-progress :


And here are some of the other Mopars at the show:

A 1956 300B. Awesome:



A 1957 Desoto. Look at those fins. :


You gotta love the '70s. What's better than a Yellow-Blue-Maroon racing stripe down the side of a brown Plymouth Volare Super Coupe? Nothing, that's what:


1960 Valiant. I love the way these cars look. Look at those "cat eye" fins:



Same car. Its engine is a 225 Hyper-Pak slant-six. So rare and so cool:


Here's two pics from the same car - a 1957 Chrysler. Check out the two-tone on the body AND engine. I'm not usually a fan of "customization" but this was done very well, I thought:



Here's the coolest damn station wagon you ever saw - 1973 Fury with a 440 V8 under the hood:


It wasn't all fun-and-games, though. This is what I mean when I say I feel like an outsider at these shows, sometimes. What an asshole:


The greatest of the great. The REAL deal. A genuine 426 V8 Hemi. :


All-in-all it was a fun time......though it was kinda lonely since I was by myself. A good friend of mine was planning on joining me - which would have been great since she's a girl - but she couldn't make it. These things can be real sausage-fests, sometimes.