If you're ever offered a ride in a race car, take it. If you ever have the chance to get this close to the race track, do it. (pardon the low quality, it's my cell phone movie)

Coronado Brewing Company has a cool 1924 Model T for advertising

racers tricks to make a factory Talladega even more aerodynamic

the NAS North Island Speedfest invited the San Diego chapter of the American Truck Historic Society, these 4 cool rigs were great to look over!

 the White is a 1941 that Gilmore owned originally. Posted here http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2012/09/1941-white-semi-tractor-trailer-that.html

the red white and black is a 1955 Kenworth

 this orange and black is a 1971 Kenworth

and this brown Kenworth is a 1969... I posted a couple photos last weekend of it, Jeff bought this at age 19, and worked with it for the next 20 years, getting 3 million miles under and behind him... he then converted it with the only stipulations from his wife that it have a toilet and a shower. They're both happy!

http://www.aths.org/ for the website of the American Truck Historical Society
and they get together for convoys occasionally like this Route 66 news item in the San Berdo Sun Newspaper article: http://www.sbsun.com/ci_21552862

Opel GT with customized license plates to accommodate the cars odd size and shape

Ever seen anyone ventilate a license plate before?

Even the back plate is trimmed and rolled over to get it to fit in the car makers formed area

Hornet X Sportabout station wagon... I don't think I ever heard of one before

Looks like a precursor to the AMC Eagle 4 wheel drive station wagon

I like seeing a tool box in an old car, it preserves my concept that the old car owner is a car guy with repair skills he'll use on a roadside. Those are great people. Capable, handy, ready to problem solve.

a VW that got a sinister look perfected

the Porsche badges I haven't seen before, photographed at this years Speedfest Porsche paddock

a recreation of a 1920s dirt track race car, the Bug A Tee (Sounds like Bugatti)

Lyn St James, icon... race car driver and I came across one of the race cars she's owned at Speedfest this year

Just consider how few people can race professionally, now think how few of them win, then how few have won the 24 Hours at Daytona, and the 12 Hours of Sebring. Lyn did that. She also earned a piano teaching certificate.

That is cool! http://www.lynstjames.com/about/

New way of admiring the running horses Mustang seats

Nice Mustang, and great collection of stickers and decals... but I noticed the unique treatment of the license plate, first I've seen made to look like a 1960's

Putting the Holman Moody decal across the hood this way sure grabbed my attention, but then I glanced at the plate, and noticed the aging and color treatment that they've given it, as it is not a 1960' plate, it's just the right colors. The new plates are easy to spot, because they have 7 characters. All the yellow letter on black background plates for cars were 6 characters, the first 3 were letters, the 2nd 3 were numbers. Of course the commercial vehicles (includes El Camino and Ranchero) were different and easy to distinguish from the cars plates

 also the front and back have a different texture in this aging and coloring example

pretty cool to go to this trouble to make the plates seem to be the right ones for the decade. If this car really had the black and yellow plates for a car from 1965-66 they would probably be something like ppp111 through sss-999