Good day to everyone, I hope you're all well. I've had a busy August thus far and will still have many busy days to come before classes start again on the 28th. It was nice to take a break from it all up at the Log Cabin Cruize Night again! Not sure how many more will be running this year, but I'm hoping there'll at least be one after my photography class starts. Sure, there's four cars at home to photograph, but it would be more fun to take pictures of everyone else's cars! Anyways, I'll get right to the best part; cars.
Of course, what good daughter wouldn't show off her father's station wagon first? It's a 1986 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser he got off Craigslist. It's owner had passed away and someone had bought it an estate sale, or something like that. So the car spent most of it's days in Queens NYC, and has the battle scars to show it. My dad plans to hot rod it, but for now it still turns heads. People, even from my generation which never had them growing up, love wagons.
I adore this wagon honestly. I actually have James driving a similar car in Fox's novel. Why? I have this weird mental association with mobsters/bad guys driving them. In my mind, they're a luxury car that can also double as a family car and not look suspicious. That being said, I have plans for James' wagon, so it won't stay in the hands of a bad man much longer.
I was under the impression that Fox had put the 70s Lincoln Continental from the second picture in the last Log Cabin post, but he didn't. That's ok, here's the pictures from May anyways. I didn't really take new pictures of it since I thought it'd already been shown.
The car must have hydraulics, since we saw it driving quite low, and it wasn't raised while parked next to my father's wagon. It also bounced quite a bit as it drove.
The door handle on this '90 Toyota MR2 is very funny. It's just a normal, non-car door handle. You just don't see it, or a rear engine Toyota everyday. Was a cool find.
I hope you like Trans Ams, cuz I got lots of em. I want one like the blue one, maybe in better shape, but still. Love the blue paint and the blue bird. The year of the Trans Am Fox eventually owns keeps changing, but it's currently on the late 70s models in my head. But it is blue with the blue bird.
If you read the last Log Cabin post, you'll have seen Fox reference this Impreza as the "Invalid Impreza." That's still the nickname I give it, for it's windshield decal. But it's changed some since May, the spikes most notably and the fact that the plate is now mounted to the front and not on the dash. Both plates are very bent though; neither were before. Gotta wonder what's happened between now and then, but I can never find the owner to speak about it.
Here's another crazy Subaru for you. Here's the link for Instagram handle as well. Someday I'll be able to take nice photos of my car like that. I have some plans for the Civic before it's ready for it's photography era, but those should be coming soon.
Speaking of my Civic, here's a few Civics and an Accord, because I love Hondas that much. I was chatting with a friend today, who's looking into buying a car, and told her that Japanese cars are quite solid. She laughed and said: "You're just trying to get me to buy a Civic like you." and that wasn't my intention, but I realize how fond I've become of them. I just plan to take good care of mine.
Here's a very rare car, a 1983 Mustang GT Turbo. Google says only 556 were made, and the owner claimed that this was the 520th car to be produced. Pretty cool.
I don't have information written down for this Jaguar. I was too focused on the artsy photo, which I like a lot.
Quite a rare truck; an International Scout from 1972. I'd personally never seen one, and while I'm not really a fan of this style of truck, it is really cool to see a rare vehicle. I love being introduced to more of the car world.
Here's another rare one; a 1972 De Tomaso Pantera. I had never heard of this brand. It has a V8 Ford engine in it, according to my father. I'd never seen a mid engine vehicle, and I'm still confused how you'd be able to easily work on the engine if something went wrong. Still a neat find.
A Honda S2000 from 2001. I'd never seen one of these either, although I'd much rather have a Del Sol, I'd own one of these too. Maybe not as crazy as this one, but I'd own one.
Here's a McLaren. I never found them super exciting, but since I'd never seen one in person, I thought I'd include it. The spoiler must have hydraulics or something, because we saw it move as the car drove away later in the night. So that was also super cool.
My father told me this was basically the Impala station wagon, so we're going with that. It's a 1969 Chevy. I really love wagons with the wood look, they bring back nostalgia for a time I never lived in, and I'd love to go back to a time where it was station wagons instead of SUVs. But that's just me.
I didn't get a chance to see what year it was, but here's a hot rodded Tesla. I have my own opinions on Tesla's designs, but putting my biases aside, it was really neat to see an EV hot rod. It just shows you can put love into any car and get something cool.
Last, but not least, if you read the last Log Cabin post, you'd have seen this Olds before. It's the 1990s convertible with liberty plates on the front. Turns out it belongs to a dealer at the antique mall I work at, one I'm very friendly with. We were talking about cars and when it started to sound familiar, I asked if he'd kept his liberty plates. He said yes and brought up a picture. To which I replied, that I'd seen the car. I finally got a chance to meet up with him and get a better look at the car, my parents spoke with him as well. He's such a cheerful guy, it always makes me happy to see him. It was just really cool to find out I knew the owner of the Olds.
Right, that's everything! Hope you all enjoyed, and I'll see you next week!
-Rosetta 💖