As promised, some great details seen at the Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekend a couple of weeks ago. It's an understatement to say that every vehicle there has seen some form of creative customization, which I love. On top of that, the surviving standard, factory-issued things are so cool! This is why I dig vintage car culture so much. Check out all these great details.
Yet more car show awesomeness from this year's Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly weekend! Tomorrow I'll show you some cool close ups of car details.
Pat and I had a rip roarin' good time at Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly weekend! This was our third time, and I think it was even more fun than the previous two. We did everything we could to take in as much music as we could while we were there, including the headliner at the car show, the amazing Dale Watson. He was awesome! It was a tightly packed crowd but some people still found a way to dance.
Pat and I attended Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekend a couple of weeks ago, and I got enough style snaps at the car show for three posts. Lots of cool vintage everything going on!
Hello readers, I'm back from my adventures in SoCal and I'm finally able to share a few of the things we saw and did in Vegas earlier in the month, including my birthday present to Pat: five laps around a racetrack in a Ferrari. There's a track just outside the city where you can drive any number of incredible supercars: Porsche, Maserati, Lamborghini, McLaren, Aston Martin, Lotus, Ferrari. My brother advised me that the 819 horsepower Ferrari 296 GTB was going to be the fastest on the straightaways, so that's what I chose. Pat had a blast! He talked about it for days afterward. Above you see a shot of some of the Ferraris on offer. Directly below is the 296 GTB (beautiful!), and the bottom shot is Pat in action behind the wheel. It looks a little blurry because my Leica couldn't track him -- he was going over 140 miles per hour!
We spent most of last week at Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekend, which is (you guessed it) in Las Vegas, Nevada. This was our third time attending and we had a blast! It's always fun and I hope we can do it again soon. I managed to blog every day while we were gone, but only because I set up and scheduled all the posts in advance. We got back home early Monday morning, just before sunrise, and ever since then I've been churning and burning in preparation for the fact that I'm about to jump on another plane tomorrow at 6:15 AM, this time to California. You may remember that we were in California just a few weeks ago, in February, to visit friends. This time I'm going solo to visit the same friends while Pat holds down the fort here at home.
As a sanity saving measure I've decided to put the blog on the back burner for the rest of this week and probably until late next week, so here's a placeholder photo from Viva. Does this guy look familiar? That's because he's dressed like the classic Big Boy! Although apparently Big Boy restaurants are still around in some places, you may or may not remember this mid-century American cultural icon, so here's a little more info about him.
I'll have more VLV photos for you when I get back. See you next week!
