Went to Sugarhouse park today for a little meet of the members of utahnissans.com. Saturday at noon on a nice September day is not a the time to see if there is a free pavillion to have a BBQ. So the lovely mrs. gearhead and I pulled together a couple of tables, a BBQ and her moms really nice shade tarp and created a nice makeshift pavillion. The members brought chairs, themselves, and even their dogs and made themselves comfortable. With my love at the bbq, and me going to get things that turned up available AFTER I left, things went off quite well. Yasha, the member who started this whole affair, brought the hamburgers and hotdogs and Deano brought some chicken. A few other members brought drinks, chips, and a nice potato salad. All in all it went off well, dispite the annoying wind. So there we are at a Nissan website meet, and this Datsun (by Nissan) 1600 shows up. Nice little ride. The irony is that just guy decided to go to the park and walk his dog and he just happens accross this meet, so we invite him and his old time "Nissan" to join us. Still trying to figure out how he fit his Malamute Husky dog into that little car, and from Wyoming yet. At about three things started breaking up, a few of the members we talking about taking a cruise. It's a good thing we cleaned up then, they had forecasted rain showers for the day and shortly after we left the rain came. So that's one nice way to spend a Saturday afternoon.

This last Sunday we decided to check out the IMAFS brought us by NUMOA. For those not familiar with the acronyms (including myself until now) that is the Intermountain Mustang & All Ford Stampede by Northern Utah Mustang Owners Association. We found this car show through a link that clearly states it is up at Main Street in Park City. Great, this is an opportunity to get out of the hotter valley and enjoy the cooler mountain on one of the most beautiful mining town turned ski resorts I have ever seen. Main street still gives that old west feeling (minus the dirt roads).
Since this is an All Ford Stampede, we figure we should go up in Fords, of course so we go over to my brother's house. He drove his old battlecruiser ('72 wagon) and my wife, the boys, and I take old blue ('69 - 4 door hardtop sedan). And off we go.
So up at Main Street there's this really nice Arts Festival (in the immortal words of my older brother, "Yep, that'll kill half an hour" but don't really see much for old fords there.(????) I ask the hostess at a local restaurant about it, she states that the show was at The Canyons on Friday, then Main Street Saturday, but knows nothing about it on Sunday.
Hmmm... mapping tells me maybe I should check Dear Valley Ski Resort.
Well, no luck there so we figure it's a bust and we'll head home, but since it was at the Canyons the first day, maybe it's back there... Yep, there it was.

There was a nice variety of cars there, found the one that the boys liked the best, a beautiful red convertible, similar to the Cougar they know all too well (more on that at a later post). And then found another one with a very nice paint job, I like the subtlety of it. Although the pink one in the background, that was a little much. And yes, the valve covers and air cleaner were also pink, I was too busy throwing up to see if anything else under the hood was pink.
After looking at the cars our older boy convinced us we wanted to take a ride up the tram while we are there just as we get hit with rain, accompanied by a 10 mph headwind. Yeah, moving at 10 mph that made it one cold and wet ride up. But on the way down it was nice, almost like standing still. Next time our oldest comes up with a suggestion as that, we may be a little leery of it.
Oh, and I almost forgot to mention the nice old Bronco, this thing is almost too nice to take off road, a trail trophy on this would hurt.



It would be fun in Moab though.
Going down Parley's Canyon on the newly paved I-80 in the rain proved quite interesting also. Not sure why, but the rain created this foam on the road, I think it was a mixture of road oil, oil from the cars, and the first rain in a while getting stirred up by 60 MPH tires. All this in a large car I was not quite familiar with was a bit nerve racking, but we made it without incident. Anyhow, that is how we spent labor day Sunday.