{"id":723246,"date":"2018-11-21T01:59:40","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T09:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangshift.com\/?p=723246"},"modified":"2018-11-19T19:10:28","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T03:10:28","slug":"cars-coffee-at-the-bluegrass-stockyards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangshift.com\/bangshiftapex\/cars-coffee-at-the-bluegrass-stockyards\/","title":{"rendered":"Event Photo Coverage: Cars & Coffee at the Bluegrass Stockyards – No Boring Junk!"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) –\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Never been before.\u00a0 Seen lots of photos.\u00a0 Heard and read lots of stories.\u00a0 This chilly morning I went with my son in his \u201965 Belair headed to what was to be our first of three events for the day.\u00a0 We\u2019d only planned on two, but heard about another at the 2nd<\/sup> stop and decided that needed to be included.<\/p>\n

Cars & Coffee in Lexington had been one event until a few months ago when the organizers decided to go their separate ways and now host their own events.\u00a0 The first we stopped into was held at the Aviation Museum of Kentucky out on Airport Road next to Bluegrass Airport.\u00a0 My son and I are familiar with this place as he attended a young aviator\u2019s camp out here for a few summers and managed to notch some time in his log book.<\/p>\n

How was it\u2026?\u00a0 More cars than would fit in the space provided and cars were coming and going the whole time.\u00a0 There was a Lamborghini, a few Porsches, handful of Miatas, and plenty of other stuff.\u00a0 I went mainly for anything pre-1980 with some exceptions.\u00a0 It\u2019s not that I don\u2019t like Mercedes, a Subaru WRX or two, or even a late-model big-3 muscle car, but they are not my favorite.<\/p>\n

There was plenty of stuff for me to take photos of and check out.\u00a0 All the twenty-somethings and younger were huddled around the Lambo which kept me from getting a snap of it.\u00a0 I will say\u2026that thing sounds SO sweet.\u00a0 The baby blue Toyota Corona was super nice and all it was missing was a Datsun B210 parked next to it.\u00a0 The red Cougar had a 3-speed in the floor which I haven\u2019t seen in many, many years.\u00a0 The Chevy SS has the Holden (RIP) pedigree and was sporting a blower.\u00a0 The white 1st<\/sup>-gen Firebird parked in another lot and was all by its lonesome when I spotted it.\u00a0 I hadn\u2019t seen this particular one before and it looks clean and classy.\u00a0 The green Torino was recently purchased by my son\u2019s best friend\u2019s stepdad.\u00a0 I am a Torino fan and this thing has great bones for becoming super cruiser.<\/p>\n

Clean, early Supras are seldom seen around these parts and to top that off I hadn\u2019t seen a white one since they were new.\u00a0 I had a tough time trying to get a shot of this Pontiac Gran Prix Aerocoupe, but eventually my patience was rewarded with a tiny opening to get it.\u00a0 This white Hellcat Charger is the first white Hellcat I\u2019ve seen.\u00a0 If it were mine I might have to put on some black wrap on a few panels then add a spot light just to catch some folks off guard.<\/p>\n

Overall I liked the event though I had a feeling that the other one would be larger and more diverse when we arrived here.\u00a0 The next article will let you know if I was right.<\/p>\n

No police were summoned while we were there though burnouts did occur as folks were leaving the venue.\u00a0 I cannot report any Mustang crashes and that\u2019s likely because there weren\u2019t human targets lining the road.\u00a0 There was one idiot that brought their firebird up on boost for a vulcanizing session.\u00a0 With activity like that the organizers might not be allowed back.\u00a0 I\u2019m pretty sure if the airport security had caught on the whole event might have been disbursed.\u00a0 Photos of said behavior\u2026?\u00a0 Nope.\u00a0 I\u2019m not going to glorify their activity.\u00a0 That was not the time or place for it.\u00a0 And gearheads continue to get a bad rap\u2026<\/p>\n

Come back and check out our coverage of the Cars & Coffee at the Bluegrass Stockyards.<\/p>\n

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