It’s Friday! Another fast week for me and the same is likely for the weekend as well. I’m off to Effingham, Illinois, on Saturday for the annual Corvette Funfest at MidAmerica Motorworks. This is the largest Corvette gathering on the planet and it just happens to be a short 3 hour drive away. I look forward to this show all summer long, so I hope the weather cooperates.

And then on Sunday there’s an air show & car show at a local airport. I checked it out last year and it was pretty cool. I like that you can go right up to the planes and check them out. And the car show was fantastic last year with all kinds of cars & trucks that I hadn’t seen before. Again, if the weather cooperates I’ll definitely be out there.

And speaking of car shows, last weekend I was out at the Route 66 Dragstrip in Joliet, Illinois, for their annual Super Chevy Show. It’s an entire weekend of Chevrolet goodness with a huge car show, drag races, and swap meet. I had a blast out there last Saturday and got a shit-ton of photos! So check out the gallery below and enjoy all the automotive goodness of the Chevrolet kind, and the usual Friday double babes & double jokes!

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It’s Thursday. Yesterday was National Cheeseburger Day so a buddy and I went to Mooyah for dinner last night. It was a beautiful night so we were able to enjoy our cheeseburgers outside. And directly across the street there was a car show going on, so that was pretty cool. 

Today we’re going fishing… for a yellow Corvette! In this episode of Adventures with Purpose, they go into the Willamette River in Oregon to recover a 1980’s Corvette underwater. It was no easy job, so check out how they finally got it out of there!

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It’s Wednesday. Here’s something you don’t see every day. Today I have some automotive goodness of the earliest kind! While visiting Dexter, Michigan, one of my readers stumbled upon a group of men and their cars from days gone by. He caught up with them at a local restaurant to get a better look. Maybe it’s just me, but whenever I see vehicles like these from the dawn of automotive history, it puts a smile on my face. I can’t help wonder what their designers and engineers would think about today’s modern vehicles and how proud they would feel knowing their creations are still on the road.  And not only are they still running, but they look and function perfectly. What an incredible find. A huge thanks to Brad for allowing me to share his story and photos!

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Keep! Long time no write! While visiting Dexter, MI, i saw a really old car go by. Then another, and another. I followed them to a restaurant where they were taking a midday break and got to see these classic beauties from the early days of automotive goodness up close. They were on a two day tour from Greenfield Village to Okemos, then return, about 100 miles each way. Due to their age (the cars, not the drivers), there were three mechanic support vehicles following.

The closeup shows the suspension on the Brush. The chain must be kept clean, and there are two oil cups that need to be filled. The spring is obvious, but what damps the spring motion is a friction disc (under left oil cup) that rotates when the axle moves up and down. And that needs to be adjusted occasionally!

It would be a treat to putt along in one of these on the old blue roads for a day!

-Brad from Kent OH

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