Saturday,
Fred & Debie and the Princess & I cruised 62 miles to Montross, VA and
the annual Fall Festival and car show.
This is the first time we have attended this event and it worked out to
be a fun day. I don’t browse the “crafts”
much so the car show was it for me. The
show was well attended for the venue….with quite a few cars from Colonial Beach
Cruisers and the four from Stafford in attendance. Yeah four, Denny showed up around 9AM and Ron
overslept (he is newly retired so that’s ok) and didn’t arrive till around
10AM! It’s refreshing to know Ron has
been reading the “Retired Guys Handbook”….on page 43 we are to respond to
questions like….”And just what do you do now?”
response> Not much of anything
and I usually don’t start that till Noon!
I think he will assimilate just fine….now Lou on the other hand is still
struggling with that concept….hang in there Lou!
By the time
everyone was in place there were 43 vehicles….which is a good showing for a
small show. I really liked the maroon ’60
Pontiac Tri-Power, 4 Spd. That car was a
real mean street machine back in the day.
Few people would expect a big heavy Tin Indian run like they did! I also liked the black ’57 Chevy post with
the 283, 2 4bbl….another fine representative from days gone by. I think the center of the show was the blue ’70
VW with the trick paint and the many custom modifications. The sound system would vibrate the ground and
the engine sounded like it had been cleverly massaged too.
But….the
show ended at noon and at 2PM the parade began.
Now I have never been to a small town parade like this….it was something
you might read about in an old ‘Life’ magazine.
I actually thought about that while we watched the parade from our
chairs on the top of the berm in the show lot.
There were marching bands representing communities around Montross as
well as Fire & Rescue squads across the area. In fact we could hear the Fire trucks coming
about a ¼ mile away and they were loud then.
But when they passed in front of us they were cranking out about a
million decibels of ear bleeding sound!
My ears rang the rest of the day.
I have a lot of experience with that, years ago when I was a competitive
pistol shooter few people used ear protection.
After the first few shots my ears would go mostly deaf and would ring
the rest of the day….it’s how we did it!
That and loud engine noise is probably why I have to say “huh” a lot now….ya
think? They had floats and walking
groups for various community organizations.
When the American Legion passed by with the colors most people didn’t
stand up and show respect for our flag….that was sad. The old people did but the young ones kept
talking….
Since Debie
was one of the crafty vendors we were going to wait till her day was done to
leave….but around 3:30 the rain clouds started rolling in so the event coordinators
were allowing the vendors to call it a day early.
The cruise
back was uneventful and dry after we were about 20 miles from Montross…. Another day driving around the countryside of
Virginia giving people something to wave at….I love this hobby.
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