WRUW Today?

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This weekend called for the Speedmaster. It went to town yesterday and went to church this morning.

Traveled up to Fort Worth, Texas for a Cars, Coffee, and Chronographs event at The Watch Preserve. https://thewatchpreserve.com/?srsltid=AfmBOoqI4OEopM7aOwtaOCSudhRCF7thqLSF0PaGXSHQTKYGY5PIULHC Nic Libby did a great job promoting and organizing the event. It was well attended. There were three small parking lots full of cars and curb side across the street also was festooned with a white '54 'Vette and a McLaren.

I didn't take as many photos of the cars as I usually would have due to dividing time between the cars and the watches. The '34 Packard was my pick of best of show so I devoted most attention to it and talking to the kind owner. Somehow I neglected photographing the opened engine compartment. The V12 looked like a (only slightly smaller) Merlin aircraft/ PT Boat engine.

There were three Dodge Stealths there. 'Vettes abounded. In addition to the '54 there were '60s 'Vettes on hand, including a factory side pipe big block car as well as late model 'Vettes. Lots of street rods on hand with various degrees of customization and hot engines, rumpity-rump cam shafts, and loud exhausts. I can appreciate the well executed rod/custom, but prefer originality. Besides, one can only take so much of later vintage Bowties, Blue Ovals, and Mopars with drag mods, tubbed rear wheel wells and such.

As the car show began to wind down some of the guys began leaving and horsed their rides up and down the street, doing burn-outs and getting loud. Really not too wise at a venue like this. A good way to have a car show shut down once the neighborhood complains and the law arrives. I couldn't even hear the Packard V12 exhaust when the owner fired it up due to all the side pipes and squalling tires. I did encourage the owner to do a burn-out as he wheeled the big Packard out onto the side street. He just laughed.

I arrived early and was privileged to enjoy most of an hour's conversation with Matthew Miller (Sunflowerman) in between his answering others' questions and comments about his watercolors. https://thewatchpreserve.com/collec...9Iwe7JvxRnxFvPewjpy7HFeljfbbOf3Fwf_zeL1JA5l2x I've long enjoyed watercolor art and watch watercolor art is appealing. Matthew is personable and down to earth.

The event was a big hit for both watch guys and car guys in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex region and a splendid time was had by all.