Saturday Sarah, James and I headed Downtown for a cultural afternoon in the city's bustling art district.En route to the Miami History Museum, we stumbled upon the fifth annual Miami Classic Car Show, between the Gusman Theatre for the Performing Arts (Where we'll take you when you visit Miami!) and the Dade County Courthouse.
There was beautiful, colorful and voluptuous curves galore on West Flagler Street, with more than a 100 classic and antique cars on display. Images of a roadtrip in a '62 Austin Healy on a lone freeway, roof folded back, gloved hands steering and the radio blaring crossed my mind .
The Show featured automobile designs that predated 1979 and the members of the Miami Vintage Automobile Club were not shy to strut their shiny stuff on the sidewalk.
Sarah fell in love with a small Mini Cooper, dating back from the sixties. After careful consideration we decided not to purchase it, simply for its sheer lack of trunk-space!
Chev's, Ford's, Mustang's, every Corgi miniature car I played with as a child, was present.
The British flag was flying too with some vintage Rolls' Royces, Astin Martin's, Mini's and a 1952 Jaguar XK120 - the same model that won the 24h Le Mans Endurance Race in France from 1951-1954.
I just about gawked at these classy, elegant old cars. Whatever we did the rest of the day was surpassed by these beautiful images of yesteryear.
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