Saturday dawns with a spectacular early Fall day, sunny, temps in the 50’s, great day for a road trip! We left home at 9:00AM for our trip East down the Massachusetts Turnpike, it was a great ride.… Boy, they sure don’t build cars like they used to, it was like riding on our living room couch, the “Gray Lady” attracted much attention on our 102 mile trip out.
I’m still a little freaked out by the attention we get at 65 MPH, everything from people pulling alongside and giving us the “thumbs up”, to people rolling down their windows and trying to carry on a conversation, and this trip where a suburban pulled up on our left side, snapped some photos, moved back behind us to take some more, then finally came up our right side to take even more. My god.… folks you do understand we are hurtling down the highway at high speed, you really should be looking at where you are going!!
Never really though about “defensive driving” until we started road tripping with this baby.….
We arrived at Cadillac Village, a huge Cadillac retailer, and today’s event sponsor at around 10:40. Our club get together was a social event primarily, just a season end get together, there was no judging or competition, just a fun time to get together and talk Caddy’s.
Cadillac Village supplied all the food and drink along with a live band who played all day for our enjoyment, they even gifted every driver who attended with a Cadillac Village logo camp chair, what a great bunch! In attendance were some absolutely spectacular examples of vintage Cadillac and laSalles, what a treat to see all of these fine automobiles in one place.
I’ve included just a couple photos here, but will get a full album up soon on the photo page.
We left for our return trip about 3:00PM and were safely back home around 4:30. This 200+ mile round trip is probably the longest trip the “Gray Lady” has traveled in the last 40 years, she did it with grace, style, and absolutely no issues. A very nice day!
Tomorrow poses a dilema for us in that the Manchester Show (a 2000 car event), the Simsbury Show (an antique car & plane show) and the Chicopee Rotory Shows are all scheduled on the same date due to rain issues throughout the Summer. We really want to attend them all, but after the hectic pace of the last 2 weeks we are going to opt to just stay local. so the Chicopee Rotory Club Show is it.
See you there.….…























