Last of the Cars

I know that this has lately been looking more like a blog about cars than about sailing. It's not all of my fault: Port Townsend seems to have been full of interesting old cars (and motorcycles and books and boats and people and ...) that just had to be photographed. Today's final blog entries on vintage cars extends to that of the White further down.

Yesterday as part of a tour of historic buildings around the town we visited Port Townsend's first fireproof building, an all-concrete structure that has been used by the motor trade in one form or another since it was built. The building currently houses an auto museum with all sorts of interesting car-related bits and pieces - including vintage cars for sale.

You can zoom the photos to see what most of the photos are about. The zooming is also useful for seeing the interesting items in the backgrounds.

The first two photos are of a 1926 Ford, allegedly owned by a town doctor.

The next photo shows a red Studebaker truck with a 1952 Triumph Thurnderbird in front of it. (Neither are for sale and are probably restoration projects.)

The black car is a 1929 Packard. I'd love to run around town in it with a Tommy Gun sticking out of a back window. (From Wikipidia: The Thompson was also known informally as: the "Tommy Gun," the "Trench Broom," the "Trench Sweeper," the "Chicago Piano," the "Chicago Typewriter," and the "Chopper.")

The hot rod is a 1937 Chevrolet coupe.

The blue car is 1963 Morgan.

The silver one at the bottom is a 1948 Chevrolet pickup truck. It was truly sold. We saw it being driven down the main street of Pt Townsend an hour later.