Auto Show
Well, Friday night, after my day of meetings at the History Museum and a company-expensed happy hour networking event, i met up with the wonderful kiwi59 at JJs. We were going with redhochipe and his non-LJ hubby Jim as well as codeboi & buzzedoff to the St. Louis Auto Show which was this weekend at the Edward Jones Dome (home of the once good St. Louis Rams).
It seems like this has become an annual event for all of us...and that's a good thing. They all live out in that foreign country of St. Charles (about 40 miles out of town) and the deliciously kinky and twisted Mike and Glen aren't really bar-folks so it's always nice to get the chance to spend some time with them. And Jim and Randy are always fun as you have seen and read on these pages.
As always, there was plenty of beer and plenty of eye-candy...the cars were pretty good to look at too. Of course, St. Louis being pretty low on the auto show pecking order, we didn't really get anything much in the way of show cars. What they considered SHOW CARS were vehicles that are going on sale by this summer like the Ford Edge (a Fusion crossover) and the Pontiac Solstice. To prove that they were special, they were put on pedistals behind velvet ropes. Even the "car girls" were lame giving the straight boys little to distract them from the boring ass american cars on display. Well, even the foreign cars weren't very exciting either. Oh, sure, they were nice enough, but nothing really exciting. We discovered, however, that Randy has a real thing for monster-size trucks. i personally don't think it's so much the trucks, but the bubbas he can attract with them ** wink wink **. And, as outlandish as they are, the H2 Hummers are still neat in a Tonka truck kinda way; just a giant play toy.
Matt and Mike spent a good part of the evening taking pictures of straight boys (while pretending to take pictures of the cars that the boys were looking at). Well, we all have to have a hobby. We wandered around getting a good buzz and ended up, just in time, at my beloved Minis, the last group in the hall. Just as fun as ever...but i still don't want to take on car payments and higher tax and insurance rates. Besides, i'm gone most of the week and when i'm home on the weekends we usually go together when we do and take the Mercedes.
Outside of the Mini, my fave car was this custom, one-off 'Vette some rich guy had made for himself. They took a new vette and had custom bodywork created that was styled after the original '53. Pretty sweet!
