Wings & Whitewalls car show in GA:

If you like airplanes and cars, here's a show for you. The Aviation Wing of the Marietta Museum of History is holding a car show this Saturday (8/25) called Wings & Whitewalls starting at 10 AM. The museum is on Atlanta Road, just south of South Cobb Drive (GA-280) which is I-75 exit 261.

More info at https://www.facebook.com/events/436243313496820/

 

This was a nice show. The museum's aircraft are located around the parking lot, either on the ground or up on plinths; the only one open to the public was the Lockheed JetStar, which looked quite comfortable but was understandably warm inside. I kept looking at the window where Goldfinger gets sucked out of his JetStar at the end of the James Bond movie!

Next came the vendors, a varied lot, including a few interesting ones which I'll talk about later. There were two food vendors, one selling BBQ and hot dogs, the other Cajun cuisine, and even an on-site mobile barber shop!

In the lot itself were the show cars, a nicely diverse group. I was pleasantly surprised to see a few exotics: two Lambo Huracans in different shades of blue (one was a Performante), a McLaren 720S, two Vipers (which I assume were being judged as Exotics), and our now-familiar Citroen 2CV wagon, which was also being judged as an "Exotic" (which, in its own way, it is!).
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I have an affection for '50s American cars, perhaps because it's the decade I was born in. But they need to be stock, or nearly so; tragically too many of these have been lost to customization. (I have seen one '50-'51 Mercury that had not been converted to a "lead sled"). The owner of the '50 Buick said he's entering it in the Atlanta Concours next month. And the show even had an Edsel!
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Oops, I forgot two Exotics, since I'm sure that's the class they put these two in. When is the last time you saw an Amphicar?
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There were a few more European cars around, including a fairly rare Merkur. There were also some nice examples of a couple of marques from the past, Studebaker and American Motors. (Looking at the Matador reminded me of the one that improbably flew in another James Bond flick.) And a very nice "T-bucket" which reminded me of an old Monogram model kit called "The Big T".

(BTW, if you look in the background of the E-Type photo, you will note that the Amphicar's license plate reads "TITAN1C"!)
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I'll post some more photos tomorrow.

 

Screw the bulls! Your Citroen is more Exotic than their cars. I would have voted for your "escargot" myself.

 

The trophies were homemade and very interesting; some of the ones with gears actually had moving parts. As I said, they had a barber on-site inside a trailer, and for liquid refreshment, a bar built into a VW Transporter. The most interesting vendor was called TK Drift Motorsports, out of LaGrange, and they were selling what they called Drift Trikes, which are really Big Wheels for grown-ups!
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Before I leave this thread, I should include the military vehicles:
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And if you also want to see some of the museum's aircraft, I shot a few: https://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/threads/marietta-museum-of-history-aviation-wing.583451/