Today we're back with our final installment of the drool-worthy vintage cars and trucks that came to the Germantown Car Show last month. There were so many pretty ones...
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Today we're sharing more drool-worthy antique cars from last month's Germantown Car Show. As you can see, the wide range of makes and models was quite impressive. Of all of the gems, I was partial to the Chrysler Woody. It's about as high-maintenance as you can get, but the details were incredible. The very relaxed (and well behaved) poodle also stole my heart. Which vintage car is your favorite?
Confession: I have never seen Ohio in the fall. My mother's family were Ohioans for many generations, but after my great-grandfather's death, my great-grandmother moved with her second husband to California. Two of her three children and their families followed, and in time, the connections to Ohio became faded memories.
After sorting and scanning my family's Kodak slides, I realized just how lovely Ohio is in the fall....
Isn't it just magical? It looks exactly the way fall is supposed to look! I love the shots of the water, and those yellow leaves and the white cottage in the last photo are dreamy. Apparently that was my family's home in Ohio...the original white house!
All of the photos shown above are my family's personal photographs taken in the Euclid, Ohio area between the 1940s and 1960s. I scanned each Kodak Kodachrome slide and then edited them to share here. If you are interested in hiring Gerald & Joan to preserve your family's photographic memories in a similar manner, please click here to contact us. We would be happy to help keep your family's heritage alive for future generations.
Vintage cars have always been one of our big obsessions. Jonathan was raised around vintage muscle cars, and I spent a ton of time on the West Coast where these cars are everywhere. If there's a vintage car show, we're going to stop and check out the cars. If we see one on the road, the person who isn't driving is taking a picture of it. Yep, we're crazy like that. While we love all vintage cars (and currently own a 1972 VW Super Beetle), we have a pretty big soft spot for American cars from the 50s, 60s and 70s. For us, those decades were the heyday for American cars and a time when everyone was hitting the highways with their families to take in the sights. When we see these cars, we think of diners, vintage hotels/motels, campers and national landmarks. Do they conjure up those images for you as well? We want to start singing, "See the USA in your Chevrolet!" Life seemed so much more simple back then, didn't it?
The incredible colors and design details also make our hearts skip a beat. In our opinion, they just don't make cars like this anymore, and we'd much rather have one of these babies than any 2013 car or truck on the road. Better yet, we'd like one of each of them.
Do you own a vintage car? Which of these is your favorite?
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