2008 concours d’elegance forest grove
This past weekend saw the excellent Concours d’Elegance at Pacific University in Forest Grove. While the Concours leans heavily towards pre-WWII autos, there was a small selection of muscle cars and more recent foreign exotics. But mostly there was chrome and tail fins. And ancient Rotarians who don’t particularly care for guys with long hair. An older gent remarked about the price disparity between cream puff classics of the 50s and the ever-increasing cost of 70s Muscle cars: “You can get the 50s cars cheap nowadays because their owners are all old and dying.” Here are some pics. Note the outstanding fonts on some the badges:
The rest of my photos can be found here. I’m a fan of 60s and 70s muscle. But I’m priced out of that market. My eye is now set on one car:
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