A reminder of yesteryears.

Today my daughter Anabelle and I went to the Ardmore, Tennessee car show. It was the largest car show I have ever attended. Over 1,000 cars were registered. I often thought that I was born way after my time because I love the very old simple things in life. Although I was not born until the early 60's I have always admired much older things such as the big band music like Glenn Miller Orchestra, The Andrew Sisters, lots of old antiques gadgets, and most definitely old cars. We saw just about every car you can imagine today. Some were airbrushed with wild colors and designs. Some had hydraulics so they can be pumped up off the ground or dropped to lay flat on the ground as if the tires just disappear. Muscle cars are what I heard them called. There was quite a display of everything imagine.

Seems like a lot of folks now days are not satisfied with the way things were in yesteryears

and they feel a need to change what they can. They add their own fancy touches so to speak. I'm pretty sure there were no airbrushed fluorescent, pumped up cars back in the old days but to each their own. I walked through the car show and thought about how people invest thousands of dollars to restore these vehicles but some of them just don't look like they did in the beginning. Then I can across this man. He and his little son were wiping the rain off his 1956 Ford F-150. What a beauty! No fancy airbrushing, no pump up hydraulics, no wild colors with half the engine sticking up out of the hood, just restored back to what I imagine it was like back in 1956. A touching moment between father and son. I imagine he put a lot of time, money and love into that truck and this morning he and his son got up, his boy dressed up just like his dad and headed to the car show to spend the day together and show off their beautiful truck. Some folks may see just a man, a kids and a truck but what I see is a lot of love. I imagine someday his son will be all grown up and wiping down that same old truck with his little boy or girl just like he did with his dad in what then will be known as yesteryears.