During my recent visit to Chicago, my brother-in-law, Don Jones, and I drove up to Volo, Il., to visit an antique auto museum. Â This place has four warehouses full of antique restored cars, all for sale. Don had to restrain me from buying my favorite, a 1970 Ford Mustang Boss 429. Â Priced at a mere $209,998. Â I decided I would buy lunch instead. Â Actually, we had visited the museum a couple of years before, and both remarked that the prices, Boss 429 not withstanding, have come down. Â One of my other favorites, on of the most successful cars of all t ime, the Edsel Villager.
That car was about 100 yards long. Â
There happened to be a car show going on outside the museum that Saturday, with a country band and all kinds of creatures, umm, people running around. Â The owner of Dragula, a car used in the classic Munster movies, was on site with a couple of actors, Frankenstein and Dracula. Â Giving a talk about the show and cars, posing for pictures with folks and signing autographs. Â Batman was there also with his car. Â This young man approached me very proud of his autograph. Â He said that it was special because he built the model of the Batmobile and got it autographed for $10. Â
Dragula was adorned by this young lady, which certainly was an improvement.
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A lot of body art was on display. I guess you could call it that.
The highpoint of the morning was the Peek-A-Boo Pinup Girls. Â These girls put out a calendar, proceeds going to their charity, Northpointe Resources. Â And they had a good time dancing and gyrating to the band.
A last photo to end this non-too-exciting post, I didn’t know God made blue hair.
But then I’m old-fashioned and poorly informed, I suppose.
