As you may or may not know Ali is in Haiti right now working for Child Hope! She's teaching science and I think she'll be the first to admit she has no understanding of science besides the fact that gravity for some reason prevents just her from leaping more than 4 inches off the ground. It's spectacular to see gravity pick on her like that! All that to say... she isn't here to write the post/proof read what I write so we'll see what happens.

I, Blake, love cars. Not just like, "oh I'm a Chevy guy" or "my dream car is the *insert most recent Italian supercar*" No, I just love all cars from American muscle to Japanese tuners to lowriders to rustbucket hotrods to French art deco cars to German autobahn burners and everything in between. Ali has learned that if we're driving and I happen to completely space out that means that I've been starring at a car and I have no idea what she was talking about... I can't help it.

Anyways... here's some pictures taken from a couple of shows I went to recently. The first up is from the Dana Point Concours d'Elegance. I only took 3D pictures so go get your glasses on (the benefits of having us do a 3D photo shoot of you is that you get some glasses that make these easy to view)!!! If you don't have the glasses just sit about 2 1/2 feet away from the screen and cross your eyes.

Old Porsches are just beautiful!

The other show was the VW Classic in Irvine. It's a great show at a horrible venue. It should be at huge park or something. Back to cars... I love classic VWs they have such a funky style to them. There were so many different models and variants that never made it to the States so it's always fun to see those.

Honestly... I would be willing to sell our house in order to have the car below. I told Ali that we could just live in the bed since it has a canopy that covers it... she didn't seem so thrilled. But seriously... is this not rad!?

This car was SUPER cool! I'll save you the history lesson but it is called the Tatra T97 and it was being developed at the same time as the VW Beetle in the 30's. Hitler put a stop to it because he wanted the Beetle to be "the people's car". I guess the designer sued VW in the 60s for design patent infringement and actually won. 

An example of a car that never "officially" made it state-side. It was specifically designed as a delivery truck! I guess there is only about 10 currently in the US and three of them were at this show.

Now... Ali could get behind selling our house and living in this car/camper/whatever you want to call it. This could have easily been a hack job but it was really clean!

VWs do patina better than anything else! I love the attitude that these cars have.

And lastly... a picture of my car :) It's a 67 VW Squareback. It was hard to go from my previous car to this but honestly I can't imagine going back. It's so fun to cruise around in it and since it's basically a Beetle it's cheap to work on and has never had major issues. I'm not sure I'll ever go back to a modern car after owning this...