More cars, more, more!

I'm still downloading and uploading some of the best of the pictures I took at Monmouth's Cruise Night last Friday evening. This particular car wasn't officially entered in the show, but parked right around the corner from some hot rods and such. It made me laugh to think that a car with a custom two-tone paint job should have a giganto-rama image of Che on its rear windshield, nicely juxtaposing the concepts of a moderate -- yet capitalistic -- individual customization in the car and radical communistic uniformity from the portrait. Either somebody else has a great sense of humor, or he never got the message as to what Che Guevara was trying to do...

And what Che was trying to do was to eliminate fun, when you get right down to it. If his ilk were to succeed around here, there would be no more respect for the artistry which gave us this
or this

We might get more of Ford's stuff,
but probably not the fancy stuff that came with it


And I doubt I'd ever lay my hands on one
of these

More would be the pity.

Of course, we're not seeing very many things like these any more, either. The market seems to have gotten too bland, of late. Sigh. If only they'd make Hummers with spiffy hood ornaments (other than the utilitarian projectile ones for the military, that is), I might spend my lottery winnings on one of them. If I could remember to pay my gullibility tax on time.