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| 1930 Cadillac Fleetwood |
I do love Friday's and today was going to be a great start to the weekend. Immediately after Coffee Clatter at work I was picking up my friend Bruce and we were driving to Portland to attend the Portland Auto Show. Portland is about 160 miles from Redmond and it takes almost exactly 3 hours. It was another nice day, with a few clouds looming over the mountains, so I figured it would be a nice drive.
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| 1941 Packard 180 |
We arrived in Portland around 1pm and Bruce was hungry. We decided to park at the convention center and walk to Red Robbin, when one of the attendants at the center said the Dragon Cafe was good and it's right on site. We both ordered chicken strips and they were HUGE. It was basically an entire chicken on top of a huge mound of fries. We should have ordered one and split it, but we didn't, so we took our time ate it all, except for t he fries.
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| Farrari California |
The first cars leading into the show were all classic auto's and I was happy to just stop and look at them. A 1930 Cadillac Fleetwood and 1941 Packard 180 immediately caught my eye. You couldn't help but notice their massive size. The height and length was impressive. You can't help but wonder what it would have been like to have been able to buy one of these cars new. Or to have seen one of these driving down road and wondering who was inside.
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| 2011 Camero Convertible |
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| Challenger RT |
Inside the Convention Center the floor was covered with the latest technology in the automotive world. There was everything from Ferrari to Fiat, from large to micro. It was hard to figure out where to start. Bruce is a Mustang Boss fan, and he found the Ford display right off. It was a retro auto overload, with Camero, Challenger and Mustang all dishing up something new with a 60's flashback feel. And then there were the acronyms, with Cadillac's CTS, CTS V, SRX, Acura's TSX, ZDX, Audi's A6, A8, R8, BMW's X3, M5, Honda's CR-Z, Infiniti's QX, M35h, Jaguar's XJ, XF, Lexus' IS 250, ES 350, Volvo's S60, XC60, C30, and on and on. By 5pm we were starting to get on auto overload and by 6pm we were done.
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| The $170,000 Audi R8 |
We were back on the road by 6pm. We were going to meet Bruce's wife in Salem and they were heading to the coast for the weekend. It takes about an hour to get to Salem and we met in the parking lot of McDonald's on Lancaster. After saying good bye, I was then on my way home. I got home around 10pm and went and checked on the chickens, they had laid 6 eggs.
I was exhausted and was ready for bed.
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