1960 Ford Falcon

I’m happy to announce I now have a daily driver #2 in my garage! It’s a 2-door 1960 Ford Falcon. This baby is all completely original from her white paint job to straight-6 engine!

A Ford Falcon is actually more along the lines of what I had in mind before I bought my 1955 Studebaker almost four years ago. There’s plenty of Falcons around, they run for ever, and are classic and simple. But fate had the Studebaker in mind for me. When I saw Stude, no other car would do!

I’m very thankful to have the Falcon to drive (and work on of course!) I’ll be doing renovations to the Falcon little-by-little and am still formulating a direction to take the car. For now, she’s saving me plenty of gas money as I commute to work!

Whatever shall I name her? You know what, I think Falcon could take on a male persona (Stude just couldn’t)…what do you think???

Grand National Roadster Show

I had tons of fun today checking out the cars and meeting some really cool people at the 60th Annual Grand National Roadster Show. For all of you who chatted with me – thanks so much…it was fantastic meeting you all!

Coming this week I’ll be writing up some of the thoughts I gathered on why we like cars and how we got that way. For now, here’s a few photos of some things that stood out to me.

53 Studebaker...the best car in the show (I know, I'm partial)

The car best suited for me to pose alongside in my gold lame' vintage bathingsuit

Most over-the-top

Best paint job...gloss flames on suede...NICE!

Shiniest! That alone gets points in my book...not to mention the other cool things about this car!

There was no burlesque, but the tassels on this bumper make up for it

Best headliner. Next up...the glitter vinyl's going in my Stude

Other girl-built car! Sexy!

Studebaker sighting #2...two thumbs up!

Howdy!

For all those guys who thought girls were just purdy. And all those women who thought cars were just dumb.

I’ll always be all lady – but I hope to increasingly become more of a grease monkey! My daily driver is a 1955 Studebaker Champion. I had some help getting her on the road initially – but I’m doing my darndest to learn all I can as we go from here on out.

So this blog will be the place to learn about cars through my eyes. There’s all sorts of things that car guys take for granted that they know. Like what in gosh darn is a gasket?! I’d been hearing that word for years before I figured out exactly what it is.

So enjoy this journey with me…it’s been fun so far! And if I do say, my car and I are usually the cutest ones in the garage!!!