We went to the Roaring '20s Car Club auto show at the Southbury Training School in Southbury, Connecticut, this weekend. The annual event is a fundraiser for the school, which cares for developmentally disabled people. It's always a great time with vintage cars, vintage music, vintage people, and the aroma of onions frying on an open grill.
I love the hood ornaments and their suggestion of speed--flight even. The futuristic styling of these miniature works of art suggests big dreams and getting somewhere fast to make them come true.
We met a gentleman who owns a Model A Ford who was an expert on all things Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford and who brought history to life. I thought he must be a history teacher. Seems Mr. Ford crated his engines in wood harvested from his own forest, and the slats of those crates were used to make the floorboards of the Model A. Any scraps were reduced to charcoal by a family member in whose business he owned an interest. Mrs. Ford made sure her husband's employees earned enough to buy one of their products. Talk about solid.
I'm going to Amazon now to download some kind of book on Henry Ford. I'd like to keep company with that smart dude in my free time.
I'm grateful to the car people for a great day. They love the cameras because they're proud of their handiwork and happy to share what they've recreated and what they know. Nothing beats it.
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those car ornaments are art! so cool!
ReplyDeleteI'm not a car guy but I love car shows and the vintage cars and the people who own them. They are just so photoworthy (not a legal scrabbleword).
ReplyDeleteI remember in the long ago dusty cobwebs of my memory reading how Mr. Ford thought that it was important to pay his employees enough so that they could afford to buy one of his cars.
beautiful hood ornaments. neat history on the ford family. if only we had more 'pioneers of industry' with that mentality today...
ReplyDeleteLove the focus on the shiny hood ornaments. Whatever happened to them?
ReplyDeleteI love these, Sandy, and the hood ornaments are terrific! Love the Ford Family history and, like Tex, I wish we had more people in business today with their mentality!! Hope you have a great week!
ReplyDeleteThese hood ornaments are amazing... precious too.
ReplyDeleteYou are oh so right about these people that show their vehicles. They are such perfectionists and so friendly. I am always amazed at their work.
ReplyDeleteThere is a huge show near my house. 4000 cars are displayed every August. It is amazing to see them. I too am drawn to the hood ornaments. Always a wide variety.
One of my favourite things to do in the summer is to go to a vintage car show! Thanks for the pictures and the story. :-)
ReplyDeleteWhat a fun way to spend the day and collect some wonderful images.
ReplyDeleteAlways two hands of air beneath such wings, that are able to provide such joy, and support.
ReplyDeleteYa those were the good ol days when you knew what you were buying.
ReplyDeleteToday you don;t really know. They just give you a car and tell you its loaded. They don;t tell you loaded means a pack of trouble expensive to fix like todays computer run cars.
Wait till one of them crashes cause the computer crashed.
I have a car door I can't get anyone to fix without breaking it. It won't open even with a key. One guy quoted 600 dollars to fix it and I have three more doors which could have the same problem.
So when I look at vintage I say...
ya dem were da days. :)
Re-title this "Classic Care Hood Ornaments" so folks who will go as nuts as you have mad me can find it ALWAYS! This could be a post that gets found and linked and searched for years!
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Loved that tale about Ford!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful captures!!
I love these vintage cars. Wonderful shots of the event.
ReplyDeleteFun shots of those inspiring hood ornaments!
ReplyDeleteoh wow, the hood ornaments are really something! great series!
ReplyDeleteThese were cars ! Not like the round once today, but the "eat" a lot of petrol and are difficult to park ! But it's nice to see them in an exposition.
ReplyDeleteGreat post!! Boom & Gary of the Vermilon River, Canada.
ReplyDeleteNice post - I wonder what it would have been like to live in an age where the car was seen as one of the wonders of the world - gather than as gas guzzling, carbon spewing monsters!
ReplyDeleteI think the way that designers put ornaments on them shows they thought about them differently.
Cheers - Stewart M - Australia
These photos are great. I love the angles you select.
ReplyDeleteI guess Mr. Ford started quite a revolution, didn't he?
gorgeous details of old gems!
ReplyDeleteYou know, I don't get too excited about cars but you photographed all of these so beautifully! Nice pictures! Love the details and the artistry!
ReplyDeleteI'm feeling kind of vintage after looking at your photos, Sandy. I remember some of those cars first-hand!
ReplyDeleteThose hood ornaments really ARE works of art. (And of course in my comment on the above post, I meant SOME of those old autos are older than I am. I'm 'vintage' enough to remember some of these!
ReplyDeleteThanks for being here.