It’s really frustrating to be sick when you have so many things that you want to do! Last week I had to take a break from doing any work on the Blumo.
Had a head cold and cough that knocked me on my ass. Besides, filler dust wouldn’t help in the least to overcome it!
That being said, I took the opportunity to make some changes in the garage.
When your garage is under 20 feet long, and your car is over 19 feet long, it makes it difficult to get from one side of the garage to the other. I had huge bruises on my legs from constantly hitting the bumperettes!
So I had to make a drastic change. I moved everything to the back of the garage and parked her across the width of the garage!
But I did take some time to celebrate a birthday and had an awesome outing with my family this past weekend to the Volo Auto Museum and Showroom.
While the cars for sale were way on the high end for what they were, it was nice to at least look at vintage metal from the warmth of indoor showrooms 🙂
I enjoyed seeing the TV and Movie recreations. A couple were original to the shows they were on, others were copies.
Bumble Bee from the first Transformer movie was there. Got some really cool ideas for patina.
And the car I really came to see! The Bluesmobile!
So this recreation is billed as a ’74 Monaco that was an actual CHP car. I couldn’t get to the VIN to see if that was true or not, but things were off about the car that left me confused. So who knows.
The front-end had a ’75 upper and lower grille, but the interior had the ’74 spec black steering column, colored wheel, with black horn pad. It could be a ’74 that was wrecked while on-duty and put together with whatever parts the motor pool had on hand? It’s a mystery.
One thing that bothered me in this area was that they had George Barris sign every movie and TV car in the joint whether he had anything to do with it or not.
I don’t think it makes sense or adds any value to the cars. While I admire his early work as a car customizer and the cars he created for TV certainly left their mark on any boys brain back in the day, he did a lot of hokey things too to stay relevant.
Back to the Bluesmobile, overall it was a decent looking car. Could have been better, but definitely could have been worse too! One thing I came away with was more patina and dirt ideas that I didn’t consider initially!
