ruby's always has a good selection of cars to dazzle car enthusiasts. too bad it only runs in the spring/summer/fall.
i'm not sure if i like them better in full sunlight or with sunset or nighttime reflections. nighttime shots are more difficult to get, with the long exposures and people always walking around, more often, even through the shots. i can wait for them to move out of the way or stare them down. somewhere in between, i usually can catch what i want.
always wonder what these hot rods once looked like. at what point does someone think, "i'm going to remove this, insert that, repaint it...," when they have a perfectly good car. some of these come out great in the end, some have earned the ratrod title.
this 1928 ford model t (maybe the owner is just monogramming his initial on the radiator) was pretty well done. has the required big engine thing (wall-E), and i love the added extra big fat tires on the back.
i should have done a panorama here - wish i hadn't clipped off the front of the chevy. live and learn.
ok, this nomad was freakin' pristine. even better that i made the owner nervous—though i was several feet from his car, he was afraid of my gear touching his baby. as if i want to bump any car—guess who'd get to pay for any damage? errr. well, there was a power cord running behind his car, but i stayed off of it. almost didn't want to bother taking a picture of it after that.
strange how he worried about me scratching his baby, when i later saw his toddler kid crawling around inside and beside it. doesn't he know that children are more hazardous to a vehicle than little old me and my tripod? i speak from experience...whatever.