Cruisin The Coast

Last Sunday went to Gulfport, had heard about a car meet going on and thought I would go an check it out for a bit.. Gulf port is about 30 mile or so from where I am so not that far to go, weather was really good as well, probably around 90 degrees.
In fact the weather here has been pretty good since I got here about two months ago, which seems to have flown past, not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing as I’ll be a year older before I know it and that’s not good.
As I say weather has been pretty good since I got her, it’s rained but nothing heavier than you would expect in England, we’ve had to baton down for two tropical storms come hurricanes that were supposed to move in but didn’t materialise, so that was a bit of an anti climax.
Would quite like to see a storm and a bit of heavy rain, am told that when it rains heavy here it’s I torrential and you can hardly see in front of your face.
Anyway I digress got to the car meet some time in the afternoon, it turned out to be sort of a hot rod/custom car meeting http://www.cruisinthecoast.com/ The idea I think is to meet up then go cruising along the coast with you mates, a few cars at a time, just as it says. Weather here is great for that and the road runs right along the coast for miles.
It was a big meet with lots of cars and people, tents hot dogs, burgers, beer, live band later things like that. The meet is on for a week they meet at what they call cruise central which is where I went, they cruise a different part of the coast everyday.
There was even a raffle for a car, a 1932 Ford which they called a Rat Rod worth about 20 grand I think.

Check this one out the last thing i expected to see was a Morris 1000, when i first saw it thought it was a VW Beatle then i realised it was painted with a Union Jack. Thought process went something like this, why has a VW Beatle got a British flag on it, then the light came on.

Below is the 1932 Rat Rod that was up for raffle, did not take this photo myself but this is the car.





Overall impression is that everyone is really into cars and spends a lot of time working on them, and a proud of the results. I asked one guy how long it took to restore his car, it was a Caddy, he said two years, think about that.