BY Debbie Galant | Tuesday, Jun 07, 2011 4:30pm | COMMENTS (9)
Love chrome, tail fins and 50′s music? Then Broad Street in Bloomfield Center is where you’ll want to be tomorrow night (Wednesday, June 
and every Wednesday night through August. Last week’s Cruise Night opening was canceled due to the tornado threat, so tomorrow is your first chance to hang out with the show car set. Free. 6-9 p.m.
Photo at left by Fran Liscio. Photo below by S.J.Streeter.
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If it is not 96+ degrees, I will be there, probably with my dark midnight purple
Cadillsc Fleetwood Sixty Special. It is now 18 years “Young” with 900 miles.
The McLaren will come later, as I have to detail it.
I hope the powers-that-be will realize that the outstanding conditions of the vehicles and the great and vast knowledge of the exhibitors will prove interesting enough to to keep it 100-percent an exhibit of rolling artwork and not need a bunch of dancers with castanets running in & out between the exhibits. Come say :Hi” ~ Sandy
Tell me which model McLaren, Sandy — back in the day I crewed on a Can Am team racing an M6. Awesome rocket sled. When Can Am regulated engine size down to 5.0L, we raced it in SCCA as an A-Sports Racer. Nothing ever came close to it — when it stayed on the track.
Mercury Capri Bubble-Back SCCA 5.0L B-303 Cam McLaren Suspention Lowered Air Management System Campaigned by Mercury Div. / FoMoCo./ McLaren Engineering.
700 miles, bought new. 25 years “old”.
It’s gonna be TOO HOT (for me) LIKE 98 OR SO… TO stay the 3 hours.
For the safty of the people, we cannot pull out early. 97+ (?) today.
I ain’t a young chicken, any longer. Hopefully next Wednesday will be a bit cooler. Plus, this McLaren in stored in temp controlled enviorment in private storage, called “Car Condo”, and I have to go fetch it.
Uff tah! I will come down and see that one, fer shure. I need to scan some old pictures of our McLaren (after I find them, that is). Before New Hampshire International Speedway became an oval track, it was a road course named Bryar Motorsports Park. The McLaren got nudged off the road at about 150 during a practicce session and was strained through a chain-link fence, among other things. No one seriously hurt, but the suspension was trashed beyond repair, and — given that the car really couldn’t compete for prize money anywhere — there was little sense in spending the large bucks to fix it. The motor — a Ford 351 Windsor with eight-one-throat carbs and manifolds by a guy named Roush — wound up powering another rocket sled and eventually blew up at Sebring.
When William F. Buckley described ocean-going yacht racing as “…standing in a cold shower ripping up $100 bills,” he could have been talking about privateer auto racing. Except the denominations were more like $1000 bills.
Cars from the 1950′s are fun to look at, but I think US auto design hit it’s high point somewhere around 1935.
http://www.auburntours.com.au/images/AngastonViewsHome.jpg
Spiro, I was just looking at the opening scene of Suddenly with Frank Sinatra from 1954 and the car looks similar to the one you posted. Great looking cars and it doesn’t seem like the design changed much for a decade or so, granted I am not a car person. I love the cars in the old movies.
I saw a classic car show advertised in Verona as well this coming Sunday.
Spiro, is that a Cord or an Auburn? Or something entirely different…?
Conen, AUBURN
The Verona Show is at 600 Blmfd. Ave. AT the Verona Civic Center
I believe it is Juine 15th. Am I wrong ?
THE #1 BEST show is at Royal Cadillac, in Florham Park. Take South Orange Avenue which will become Columbia Turnpike IN Florham Park. Roayal is just prior to the Morristown Airport.
You will be talking about this show for a year ! If it’s in the 80s (temperture) I will be there with my Fleetwood – It’s Dark Midnight Purple / White Leather.