"Tristan" (casselts)
08/31/2018 at 21:17 • Filed to: None
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"Tristan" (casselts)
08/31/2018 at 21:17 • Filed to: None | 5
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I’m in Tacoma with my dad for the Studebaker Driver’s Club International Meet. Tomorrow is the big car show, but today we walked around the swap meet (it was kinda pitiful. Dad found some parts for a ‘57 Packard Clipper he’s restoring, I found nothing for my President) then checked out the LeMay Museum.
Overall a cool place with lots of info and history. There’s a huge BMW racing exhibit and lots of NASCAR stuff. My favorite car there is pictured above: Avanti No. 1. The very first production Avanti, featuring its original R2 supercharged engine and 4 speed manual!
My second favorite car...
Yep. An ‘83 Grand Marquis Colony Park wagon. My God it was beautiful. I’d do an SEFI 5.0 HO swap and drive it every day. I’m glad it’s in a museum, though, and that some of these are staying to be appreciated and preserved.
Also, there was this...
Y? Aren't there enough of these just feet away clogging up I5?
wafflesnfalafel
> Tristan
08/31/2018 at 21:37 |
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love LeMay
Berang
> Tristan
08/31/2018 at 22:12 |
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I’d have thought they’d go with the 1st gen prius.
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Tristan
> Berang
08/31/2018 at 22:49 |
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There was a first gen Insight. It deserves to be there. The first gen Prius probably looks too much like an Echo for people to know what it is.
someassemblyrequired
> Tristan
08/31/2018 at 23:44 |
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Go check out the back collection - it’s nearby
. He had something like 3000 cars when he passed away, and the vast majority are stored at a former military school close to his house (it’s a 15-20 minute drive, down towards Spanaway
) Here’s a link:
https://www.lemaymarymount.org/
Every August they open up his house and outbuildings, and that is well worth a trip. There’s some real gems there - a complete Chrysler letter car collection, tons of Packards and an insane toy collection.