Saturday, November 01, 2008
Boys day out...
Shhh. Don't tell Julie. While she was out at an all day scrapbooking extravaganza, I took Miles to the Automotive Heritage Museum in Ypsi (about a 15 minute drive from our house). They have all sorts of vintage cars there, the pièce de résistance being the original Hudson Hornet, who appears as "Doc Hudson" in Miles favorite movie, _Cars_. I knew that he was there, what I didn't know was they even put Doc's eyes on him. Check it out:
The curator said the Pixar folks talked to the owner of this car a lot while making the movie. They have a lot of other vehicles there, like a mint condition GTO, a couple Corvairs, 40's era Jags, a Bentley, a Rolls... Wow! By looking at the place, you'd never expect there are so many rare cars in really great shape in there. Plus, it's only 3 bucks admission, kids are free. Nice way to spend an hour or so, if you're in the area. Miles was interested in the rest of the collection, but we had to go visit Doc at regular intervals during our visit. Afterward we went across the street and shared a magnificent sandwich at Cafe Luwak.
Hope Julie's having fun too!
The curator said the Pixar folks talked to the owner of this car a lot while making the movie. They have a lot of other vehicles there, like a mint condition GTO, a couple Corvairs, 40's era Jags, a Bentley, a Rolls... Wow! By looking at the place, you'd never expect there are so many rare cars in really great shape in there. Plus, it's only 3 bucks admission, kids are free. Nice way to spend an hour or so, if you're in the area. Miles was interested in the rest of the collection, but we had to go visit Doc at regular intervals during our visit. Afterward we went across the street and shared a magnificent sandwich at Cafe Luwak.Hope Julie's having fun too!
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