The 2009 Meadow Brook Concours d'Elegance.....Invitational Only, Committee Selected Cars

The Class: "Featured" Class...Class A... "Best of Detroit...Fins and Chrome...Convertibles of 1959"

All American built 1959 Convertibles were present with the exception of Imperial. A fine specimen was located but logistics didn't allow.

It was perfect day and a perfect location for the ultimate car show. This show is considered to be the "Pebble Beach" of the East. Nice sunny breezy day, temp near 80, low humidity, couldn't be better.

Here's a look at the line up of the competitors.

Meh, just a collection of the nicest late fifties 'verts on planet. Nothin' to see here, move along...(wink)

Good luck Greg, we're pullin' fer the Buford!

Great pics! Wonder what they're saying in hush tones behind your back... (dayam that's the best one I've seen yet!) is very likely

How many were yours? That Caddy looks familiar as does the Merc, but I know it isn't the BUM. What a great lineup. Some really rare stuff in there. I haven't seen a front fender emblem like the one on the Impala before. Is that a 348?

What has my mind humming like a tweeker after his first fix of the day... is the realization that a gaggle of American cars are being "featured" at a concours d'Elegance. This is real recognition - a few years back, you probably have been turned away for trying to attend one, if you drove up in any American car (with the possible exception of a Cadillac, Lincoln or Imperial). Has the restored American car finally "arrived" as an Art piece?

Many of those models featured weren't even on the radar as suitable subjects for restoration. Now look at them, finished and all grown up.

I am impressed. Remarkable - each brand had a style, a personality; you can tell them apart without seeing a nameplate, it's been a while since that was possible.

Tom, the 59 Chevy is a Fuel Injected 283, rather rare. 4 speed too!

The Buick was the only car I had there. The Persian Sand (pink) 59 Cadillac is similar to the car I did in the 90s except mine had a white interior. That was the car that was re-restored to Black with red interior in 2000. It won Best of Show at Cadillac Grand National that year and it was shown at Meadowbrook in 2007 where it won a "Lion Award".

The B.U.M is a white Park Lane.

When guys show up at a car show in ties, it must high-falutin'. Or a bust by the IRS. Tough crowd there for sure. I assume no rat rod section...

1967 Falcon 4 door 351C-4V
1970 Mustang 351C-2V
http://raceabilene.com/kelly/hotrod
Owner built, owner abused.

Looks like some stiff competition

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You can't condemn the bad if you don't commend the good

I wish you had taken pictures of the other plaques/info boards. The Buick's has some interesting information, I would like to read the others.

Joe
3-'63 Fairlanes
'72 Gran Torino Sport (Q code)
'79 F-150 4X4

I can't help but wonder what these incredible machines would do in a wind tunnel. With all those wings and fins they probably provide their own smoke as they are S M O K I N' !!!!

So nice of you to stop by, Michael.

We shoulda had one of those babies to go cruisin' down at the beach back in the day.....

Sandbag the floors and we'd be ready to go!

Those are some big fins.

Were those straw hats the official uniform for the maintenance crew? I see "gregs biggest fan" isn't wearin one.




I stopped by Miller Motors Museum yesterday and he is storing a '34 Hudson Limousine that was just at Meadowbrooke last weekend.

And later that day after the judges had done their thing the awards were announced. Since we were Class A we didn't have to wait long. The prestigious Meadow Brook Lion Award goes to.......the Cadillac!... And the Lincoln!...And the Dodge!....and....and....aw poop....













Best in Class goes to the 1959 Buick Electra 225...........(!!!) Yahoo!











The guy with the BIG video camera is fliming for the TV show "Chasing Classic cars" so maybe we'll be on TV sometime. A photographer from Cars and Parts Magazine shot about 1000 pictures in the winners circle so maybe something there too.

http://turbo.discovery.com/chasing-classic-cars/chasing-classic-cars.html

HOLY POOP!

1965 Galaxie 500
2007 Shelby GT500
2004 Marauder
1994 Aerostar

Congrats. I guess no complaints from the owner?

I told him he needs to quit trying to pick the fly shit out of the pepper. I think he finally gets it......

Bout time.

Congrats on a prestigious win!

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You can't condemn the bad if you don't commend the good

Wow!! Time to dust off the "I know Greg Cook" bumper sticker... Well deserved Greg. You da man.

...except in the version he'll tell folks - the difference between getting the trophy or not, was the color of string used to hold up the air freshener he put on the mirror in the car the day before the competition...

Great win for the Bankroll and the builder!

WOW! Stunning victory over Stunning vehicles!

"quit trying to pick the fly shit out of the pepper"
too funny. never heard that line before. best in class must make him not feel so bad about those checks. very nice Greg.

From the internet:

Could you please try to explain what "pick fly shit out of pepper" means?

Tks in advance for your help.

A very tedious job?


needles and haystacks? very difficult, or - to quote the late Peter Cooke "bloody impossible!" (as in "teaching ravens to fly under water")

Fly shit is particular and is black. Ground pepper is particular and is black. The size of the particles is not dissimilar. You couldn't at all easily distinguish and so it means an almost impossible task.

[if need be, you could wash the pepper and the fly shit would disappear - but then you've lost your fly manure.]