4 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

I love weedeating 

Yeah. The first hour isn't too bad.

12 hours ago, FloridaFishinFool said:

I gotta reline my weedeater to. I can relate. And then have to use it. Ugh.

 

These are some of the Richard Petty collection of career cars... Concours D'Elegance Amelia Island.

 

 

 

 

 

Oh my gosh, that's just outstanding.  And I can see the rear quarter of his 1969 Torino Talladega on the left.  I would have lost my mind and probably gone to jail for sitting in it without permission.  While making extremely loud engine noises.  

1 hour ago, BigAngus752 said:

Oh my gosh, that's just outstanding.  And I can see the rear quarter of his 1969 Torino Talladega on the left.  I would have lost my mind and probably gone to jail for sitting in it without permission.  While making extremely loud engine noises.  

I hear ya.

 

I worked this show for 9 years straight. I have a thousand photos of all the cars that arrived there year after year. I bet I took 100 to 200 photos per show. Maybe more. The photo I posted shows only half of the circle of Richard Petty cars, but they were on display right next to the show sponsor booth or tent which was I think Mercedes that year.

 

When I first started working this show Chrysler/Dodge was sponsor but finishing out those 9 years it was Mercedes. And do you know there was only one Mercedes car that drew everyone's attention. It was really weird to watch it. Mercedes had millions of dollars worth of their cars there going back to late 1800's and their newest cars and race cars and every car in between, and yet there was only one Mercedes that had people flocking to it in the droves. They would not look at any other Mercedes except that one... crowds of people around just 1 car.

 

 

But the one car I always wanted to see was Corvette StingRay #1. The first one ever built. They took a 1950's scrapped chasis to build it. An incredible one of a kind car they shipped into this show in its own semitruck. I asked the guy who took care of it how much that car was worth and he said its anyone's guess. Chevrolet had it insured for like $25 million at the time. And it sits inside the Detroit Chevy museum warehouse most of the time.

 

I was allowed over the years to photograph it in great detail inside and out at these shows.

 

The show Concours D' Elegance was advertised as the billion dollar car show because they had on average $1 billion worth of rare cars on display there. It was a lot of fun to work that show. Got to meet Richard Petty, Bobby Allison, some European drivers I don't even know their names and on our booth we had Carroll Shelby for his last time there on our sponsor booth/tent. Lots of famous people showed up to this show. Very high end show.

 

I could start a thread and simply display the car images if you would like to see them. A lot of one of a kind cars too. I liked the George Jetson UFO looking car looked same as in their cartoons. And it actually drove too complete with clear glass bubble. Another one of a kind car.

 

StinRay #1 is the only car I really cared about seeing at the show. It was only brought a couple of times in those 9 years. The man who babied this car at the show said it got its name from when it was being run on a track in its trial runs right after it was built, that as she rounded the track people said when it glistened in the sunshine coming around the track it resembled a stingray in looks. And so the name stuck to it. This is the car all stingray corvettes came from. This is number 1 stingray as far as I know.

 

The man who cared for it told me they cannot put a price on this car because there is nothing to compare it to. No way to truly value this car. Today it could be $50 million. A hundred million. Can't put a price tag on a piece of history like this one! And he let me sit in it. I photographed this car every which a way. Even underneath it.

 

I kind of forgot all about those Richard Petty cars! But I bet I have photos of all of them

 

 

 

https://www.caranddriver.com/photos/g22718144/corvette-stingray-concepts-stunning-history-gallery/

 

It has been most of a human lifetime since this car made its mark on automotive history. The stunning 1959 Chevrolet Stingray racer/concept seen in this photo gallery was designed by Peter Brock, Larry Shinoda, and Bill Mitchell, who was GM’s director of styling at the time. It was initially a styling exercise; secondarily, it was an exploration of Corvette performance and handling capabilities. Riding on a 92-inch wheelbase and the tube-frame chassis from one of Zora Arkus-Duntov’s 1957 Corvette SS race cars, it weighed just 2200 pounds (about half a ton less than a production Corvette of its era), and its 283-cubic-inch fuel-injected small-block V-8 delivered 315 horsepower (SAE gross) at 6200 rpm.

 

 

 

1 hour ago, FloridaFishinFool said:

Peter Brock

Father of the Shelby Daytona.  Those are great stories, man.  What a blessing!

This fuzzy guy kept me entertained since the fish in morning weren't biting and I had to deal with 30+mph winds. 

 

 

Luckily as the day went on, the bite really picked up. I ended up catching 11 largemouth, 1 smallmouth and an endless amount of green sunfish. 

A photo k of a couple fly fishing the Elk River in Tennessee. I don't know why it is blurry. I resized it to a smaller size and higher quality. Oh well. You get the idea. 

The Duck River at Old Stone Fort State Park in Manchester, Tennessee. 

Ahhhhhh, retirement!

Grundy Lakes State Park, Tracy City, Tennessee. 

My photo for today is the old infamous Hell House dock. What happened on this dock changed the world! And now it has been torn down. History destroyed right here!

 

 

https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=235213

 

On that dock songs like FreeBird, Simple Man, Tuesday's Gone and many others were written here.

Another shot from my last kayak trip. I go to several lakes but oddly the one closest to where I live in Indy has the most wildlife. I sometimes take for granted how lucky I am to be 10min away from nature. 

 

Whoa Don, I almost stabbed my phone with my frog gig!!!

 

Wood Stork at Gatorland outside of Orlando. 

New Jersey lizard, Blue Tail Skink

 

Not quite Friday lights, but Thursday night lights. He started the season as the Freshman QB and after two games, he got moved up to the JV QB. This past Thursday was his first game with the JV team. I asked if he was nervous and he said not one bit! He had two rushing TDs, 1-3 passing. Not bad for having only three practices with a new team. Proud dad here!

 

 

@12poundbass big congrats to 6lb. Proud dad.👍

Columbia Craw ordering pizza in 1955

8 minutes ago, Columbia Craw said:

Columbia Craw ordering pizza in 1955

That would be me about 1963. 😁

The moment you realized you just ran over a fresh pile of dog crap in 85 degree heat mowing the lawn.  I dang near hurled.

 

 

Get'n my “on deck” lure box ready to hit the water.

 

Caught this guy today…