Saratoga Springs Lawn Show

Mary Lee and I took a day trip up to the Saratoga Auto­mo­bile Museum to check out the Cadil­lac Lasalle Club spon­sored lawn show and to tour the museum.  The weather reports were kind of shaky but we decided to go any­way and were rewarded with a very nice day.  There were many fine Cadil­lac spec­i­mens on dis­play, we saw a very nice ’58 Fleet­wood Sixty Spe­cial, some impres­sive ’59’s includ­ing a beau­ti­ful Eldo­rado and even got to check out a ’58 ambulance.

The lawn show was due to break up around 2:00PM because it was a really busy day up there, The Dave Math­ews Band had a con­cert sched­uled at the Saratoga Cen­ter For The Per­form­ing Arts that evening which abuts the museum and the crowds arrive early.  We did man­age our way around the dis­play with­out feel­ing hur­ried, had some bar­be­cue for lunch and packed it in for home late in the after­noon.  We spent about 2 hours in the museum which was fea­tur­ing a dis­play of Amer­i­can Wood­ies from the Char­lie and Marie Mon­tano Col­lec­tion, all 13 of the Wood­ies on dis­play are owned by the same cou­ple!!  What an impres­sive col­lec­tion of Amer­i­can Car His­tory, I’d love to own one of those beau­ties, espe­cially the con­vert­ibles.  Take a look at my Photo page to see more pic­tures of these fine auto­mo­biles.  If you are any­where near the Adiron­dack Region, it is well worth the trip to see all of these cars in one place, they will be on dis­play through Octo­ber 17th.  The most impres­sive one was the 1942 Oldsmo­bile Spe­cial Series 66 Sta­tion Wagon that is cur­rently under­go­ing restora­tion and will be fin­ished after the dis­play is over, that car is one of only two known to exist.

On a side note, I am keep­ing busy buff­ing and pol­ish­ing trim parts, work­ing on light fix­tures and gen­er­ally get­ting every­thing ready to start putting her back together once she comes back from the body shop, hope­fully within the next 2 weeks.

Back at ya soon.…..

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