Here they are....oh, the last one is CB doing an octogenarian version of his famous "Duck Walk."
Behind "Betty Page", behind Paul Tracy's Chevy, there appears to be a 58 4 door De Soto (?) You didn't by chance get a closeup of that, did you?
What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas - Unless Ray brought his camera . . .
Chuck Berry wrote 'em all - just ask him.
But for 83 years old, he doesn't look a day older than Keith Richards.
LOL! I'd have to say that Richards (at 66) looks even older than I do! When I want to mess with people I tell 'em I'm 10 years older than I am and I've never been questioned about it.
Heart disease is not very kind to ya. (That's not a whine, more of a chuckle.)
Anyway, I didn't get any more shots of the Desoto. I looked at the shots on bangshift.com and didn't see it there, either. Here's the deal: I got an attitude toward 4-door cars. I spose it goes back to the early years when driving a 4-door almost always elicited comments like, "so yer mom let ya driver her car, huh?" The fact that my Burb has 4 doors (well, 6 if ya count the ambulance doors in the back) still kinda grates on my nerves. Blemme, if I could find one of the 67-72 3-door Burbs, I'd give it some real serious thought.
So that kinda affects my choice of subjects when I shoot a car show. I think it's pretty much a subconscious thing, but I don't think I'm alone in it. On the bangshift pages, most of the sedans (I'm including post-type sedans and pillarless hardtops) seem to be 2-door cars.
As I wrote, the day before, I'd shot the collection at the Imperial Palace. That was a different deal. Rolls-Royces (which made up a significant portion of the collection) were almost all 4-doors. Limos or Sedanca body styles have 4 or more doors. So I shot 'em as historical vehicles, not as "kool rides." So I spose it's in the eyes of the beholder. There was one 4-door car of which I shot several photos: a 1953 Buick. I did that cuz it was my first car (you can see how this ties in with that attitude) except I had a Super and that one was a Roadmaster. But they were both black 4-doors. I hated that car and I hated the Dynaflow transmission even more. It wasn't the "most hated" of the vehicles I owned (that went to a 78 Ford Fairmont that I bought for my first wife...and it hated me back.)
So the majority of my shots are 2-doors, unless there's something real interesting about 'em. Like the 60 Caddy that had undergone a "roofectomy." That was interesting. (There was a 59 that had the same treatment.) There were a few others, but not many.
I know that 2-door cars of 30s-60s vintage are gettin rarer by the minute and I understand why they end up as rods or cruisers or chain saw phaetons or get transformed into 2-doors....like one that I'm attaching. But still....