So i went to a Texas 500+ photos of Retro ride goodness

[caprijake]

I went on holiday to Dallas Texas, I rented a new mustang V8 5.0 GT and drove around 1,200 miles around out into the Country



But your all here for the retro stuff! I went to a swap meet out in the country. Lots and lots of very cool rides.


Heres 300+ photos of the swap meet - www.flickr.com/photos/caprijake/albums/72157679209556220




Also went to AutoRama car show at a local venue. CRAZY clean retro cars. 200+ photos - www.flickr.com/photos/caprijake/albums/72157677077897813




Edit, I'm not sure why but Flickr always rearranges my photos when i upload from my phone, so multiple pictures of a car are in random orders, which sucks a bit.

[georgeb]

Encore!

[pistonpopper]

Ooh that boat tail Riviera...

[vulgalour]

Oh wow, you're in Restodan country there! I recognise the transporter from his most recent video at the Decatur swap meet which I guess is where you must have been. Here's his Youtube channel, home of Dinosaur Towing and a whole heap of neat stuff: www.youtube.com/user/restodan

[Paul Y]

Feb 27, 2017 23:08:24 GMT pistonpopper said:

Ooh that boat tail Riviera...

Funny enough I was thinking exactly the same thing.....

P.

[fad]

I could NOT be arsed maintaining a car to those standards! LOL

[HoTWire]

From the swap meet I'm most drawn to this (because Volvo and European I guess)



Looks solid and a good price too.

[93fxdl]

Feb 28, 2017 0:37:23 GMT vulgalour said:

Oh wow, you're in Restodan country there! I recognise the transporter from his most recent video at the Decatur swap meet which I guess is where you must have been. Here's his Youtube channel, home of Dinosaur Towing and a whole heap of neat stuff: www.youtube.com/user/restodan

You really should not have posted that, I have just lost a couple of hours watching, beats the carp out of all the reality car shows, just a guy in his shed messing about with cars, no contrived deadlines or petty childish scripted arguments
Ttfn Glenn

[HoTWire]

For the show I think I'll take this one

[caprijake]

Feb 28, 2017 0:37:23 GMT vulgalour said:

Oh wow, you're in Restodan country there! I recognise the transporter from his most recent video at the Decatur swap meet which I guess is where you must have been. Here's his Youtube channel, home of Dinosaur Towing and a whole heap of neat stuff: www.youtube.com/user/restodan

I actually watched his previous videos on the Swap meet before going. It was part of my research in the UK before heading out. Been a few years since he did a Decatur video.

I took photos of all the cars he looked at, those were all at the start of the meet from the car park end. The videos he does/ my photos don't really give you a scale of how big this place is. I could have spend some real $$$ there.


The ramp truck was awesome, would love to build/have one of those myself.

[caprijake]

Feb 28, 2017 9:15:15 GMT fad said:

I could NOT be arsed maintaining a car to those standards! LOL

Tell me about it, some of them were so clean and detailed. Chrome on all the trim/underside and every inch was hand finished with etchings and drawings. The car park next to the exhibition halls were filled with trucks and enclosed trailers for them, they will never drive down the road!

[Deleted]

Those first 3 photos were enough to get me going!
I cant wait to see the rest.

[caprijake]

Feb 28, 2017 16:28:34 GMT @quickrack1 said:

Those first 3 photos were enough to get me going!
I cant wait to see the rest.

Album links are in the top post. Didn't want to overload the forum and potentially crash it with so much awesome !

[HoTWire]

Feb 28, 2017 17:56:39 GMT caprijake said:

Feb 28, 2017 16:28:34 GMT @quickrack1 said:

Those first 3 photos were enough to get me going!
I cant wait to see the rest.

Album links are in the top post. Didn't want to overload the forum and potentially crash it with so much awesome !

We can always take a bit more awesome, if you wanna pick out some more of your favourites

[caprijake]

Feb 28, 2017 18:27:13 GMT HoTWire said:

Feb 28, 2017 17:56:39 GMT caprijake said:

Album links are in the top post. Didn't want to overload the forum and potentially crash it with so much awesome !

We can always take a bit more awesome, if you wanna pick out some more of your favourites

Here we go Sir, ive had a sleep and recovered now so had a good look through again. Some of my Pics

Thought this was cool, Porsche spoiler. Wasn't able to see what engine it had didn't mention it just 'RUNS GOOD' $4,800




Big old Tunnel ram, for the Capri V8 project I'm planning down the line.



I loved this Ecoline, never seen a pickup one before. My friends though i was crazy as a practially ran over to it.




Had a chat with the guy in the background selling this. He had another 4 so didn't need this one anymore ....
Told me he would chop it in half so i could get it into a container, he had friends who did a season in Europe in one, chopped it and welded it backup in Europe and then did 200mph the next day .....



Would love a set of these in the garden.



Genuinely almost bought this for $1,400 would have parked it up in a friends land until i could find a place for it at home.



These seemed cheap to me, maybe too cheap as they were sold 3 hours into the 3 day Swap meet



Not for sale .... Well Maybe ....




A Cart you can drag .... Get it?



What the hell was a Frog eye sprite doing here? Well part of it.



BIG RIG!



Practise your Mouth to Mouth anyone?

[captainmatt]

Yes yes yes and yes.
This looks like the best carboot sale ever, x100!

[discostew38]

Great pics makes me want to go over with a suitcase full of cash and bring some motors back