Concours d'Elegance, once again

When I learned we would be child free on Sunday, September 18th, I thought I'd seize the opportunity to head down to the Trump Golf Course for an afternoon of car sight seeing at the annual Palos Verdes Concours d'Elegance. My husband was agreeable, so I said let's get going. We arrived a little after 1, so parking wasn't too bad. I think the early birds had already left. We just had a short distance from our car to the entrance. Once we were in, with programs in hand, we weren't sure where to start first. There were so many sections. So, we just took off in a counter clockwise direction and looked at them all. Those that caught our interest were photographed just for fun. Here are some of my favorites:

A Buick Skylark from the year I was born. It looked beautiful.

A spacey looking thing. I would have liked to take a spin in it.

The Woodies. I expected to see one with a surfboard, but didn't. Still, they were cool.

This is from the Darrin section, designed by a guy named Darrin for the Kaiser company. Of all the Darrins, I liked this one the best. The extra flourish added by the owners gave it a nice touch.

I took pictures of this next car for my husband. He is enamored with Cadillacs.

This was a surprise. In light of the recent accident in Reno, I was nervous looking at these two planes do a little show for us.

After admiring all the cars we could, we were hungry, so instead of getting food outside, for which there was a very limited menu, we opted to go into the restaurant for a better selection and more comfortable environs. I was happy to be seated with a good view of the large screen TV showing a Manchester United game.

All in all, we had a fun afternoon. I was just a little disappointed that Jay Leno didn't make it, as he had in years past. Or was he there and I missed him? Oh, well.