Event Coverage Detroit Autorama 2020

Your right about that and that's why we are taking Amtrack from NW. Indiana this year. Planning to be in the basement most of the weekend.

 

For those coming from the north, be aware, Saturday and Sunday, southbound I-75 is scheduled to be closed from I-696 to 8 mile. More here: https://www.wxyz.com/getting-around...and-county-this-weekend-for-bridge-demolition

 

All set up in the basement next to singlefinger as always, stop by.

 

This deserves a BIGGER picture. What a cool idea. Love it!

 

Thank you

 

Thanks for the pics and stories ! Love the "model", Dogpatch ! That actually did make me laugh out loud when I saw it. Fantastic !

 

Don't sniff the glue and ruin it for the rest of us... Missed ya around but awesome display.

 

Several Millennial's asked me what the deal was about sniffing Glue... to which I replied .... just have a Tide Pod and move along ...

 

A few that I admired......

 

Is that the new Model T kit from Speedway?

 

Uncertain "T" 1:1 kit.

 

Don, good call, I like the color too!
Did you notice the builders' name on the show board?
Bob Bauder, one reason to like it without even looking at it but definitively is a looker!

 

........Bob Bauder was given credit for the build. A Bill Whetstone apparently now owns it there in Michigan. God I love that car.

 

Saw that too, but I imagine there are a lot of "Bauder Cars" in new hands.

 

............Yep, he's a legend.

 

Just a comment on the 'Most Significant Hot Rods of the 20th Century.'

I was there on Friday before the show opened to the general public with a group of high school students. That display wasn't getting a lot of attention. I figured that was because the kids are way to young to remember any of these cars.
But what I found disturbing was that even when the graybeards showed up, it was still pretty much ignored.
Since lothiandon1940 showed the McGee roadster, I'll only post the others.


If you can't name these, turn in your HAMB card.
I feel better now!

 

I get it. It is a generational thing...........Don.

 

I thought that was the best display there, upstairs or down. Very, very cool!

 

Agreed. I didn't see any one looking at this display, either Friday or Saturday, at any time of the day.

 

.........It would have been nice if it had been placed upstairs where the Uncertain "T" tribute car was located.

 

That may be true at this event. That’s unfortunate. I would have spent an hour just staring at them. Snowman

 

.....So true. I guess the younger generation didn't understand the significance of these cars and the older folks may have dismissed them as "Seen that, done that". For me the McGee Roadster was just such a special car that influenced so many '32 HiBoy Roadsters that followed. I love it. I could stare at it all day long.......Don.

 

.......Same here, Jim.

 

Bruce
I can never see enough shots of the McGee roadster, at one time I wanted to extend the trunklid on my roadster like the McGee car, decided it was too much work.
My only complaint is, because it is a fairly fresh restoration, the car is, how do I say it.........
"too nice, too perfect", I like to imagine the iconic cars as a little "rough around the edges".

 

Of all the pics I have taken and seen if autorama, this is the only pic I have seen that I am actually in...lol
That black 46 car is owned by Billy Meekins (we couldn't get his new 32 sedan done in time... see the fixing a big mess thread on here) that is the builder Clark sitting on the left and me in the background.
I spent a lot if time at the significant hot rods display... so nice to see those cars I grew up reading about all in one place.
One of my favorite cars upstairs was the Nash Rambler wagon that the guy turned into a mini nomad... so much fab and custom touches...here are the pics... mods delete pics as you deem necessary...
I talked to the guy that built it... he basically found a 4 door that was getting scrapped and cut the quarters, dash ,etc off of it and reworked them all to fit in that rambler body...

 

Was my first Detroit AR at 72 yrs old.
Felt like I was in the presence greatness
The "Most Significant" on the white carpet...Awesome!!
The Basement felt like home
The Great 8s.... awesome workmanship/engineering, but a bit over the top for me
My2c