A couple of weeks ago I wrote about a “thing” that is done here in the mountain west, parking a restored old car out in front of your business to get attention, maybe even to get people to stop and gawk at it. Mostly I’d seen it in western WY, but my latest example is in eastern ID, which is our next door neighbor.
In this case it is a restored Edsel posed attached to an Airstream trailer, being used to advertise an RV park in the Swan Valley area of eastern Idaho. The other DrC has photos at her blog here. As you might gather, the DrsC enjoy these examples of automotive nostalgia.
For decades we would share our photos of old cars with our friend Earl, a former university colleague, who’d retired to Florida. He loved to tinker with and customize interesting old cars, his ‘stable’ included a pre-war Graham, updated with V-8 engine and AC, an MG coupe with a small block V-8, a Studebaker Avanti and an Oldsmobile Toronado. Earl died recently, seeing the Edsel we both thought “Earl would have enjoyed these photos.”
We’re beginning to experience something my dear 90+ year old mother would complain about. She’d outlived most of her friends, which she experienced as a decidedly mixed blessing.
