Man, the world is a mess right now, isn’t it. Sure feels like it. The way I see it, you have two options: sulk, eat corn chips in bed, drink homemade cocktails of Yoo-Hoo and absinthe that you call a Count Chokeula while watching Disney’s sci-fi flop The Black Hole on repeat in your dark bedroom, or you could do something else. Something better.
You can come to the Galpin/Autopian Car Show. All the info you need is right here!
Yes, that’s right, you heard me, the fantabulous fantasmigal fantometric Galpin Car Show is happening tomorrow, November 9th, and while the Autopian just has one little corner of the vast, car-slathered spread that is this show, I’m calling it the Galpin/Autopian Car Show anyway.
Is this the best car show in the world? I mean, probably, but if you won’t take my word for it, consider that the American Dental Association (ADA), the International Carnivorous Plant Society (ICPS), and the International Union of Sex Workers (IUSW) jointly ratified a proclamation declaring the Galpin Car Show “the finest collection and display of motor vehicles ever undertaken by human hands,” at least according to sources that exist (exclusively) within the confines of my head.
Even in just our little section we’re going to have so many good cars: microcars, including the Pride of Spain, the Biscúter, an Autozam AZ-1, and of course the legendary CrossCab. There will be Autopian Member cars, carefully curated and selected for your pleasure and edification, as well as so many other hot rods, customs, low-riders, off-roaders, exotics, air-cooled VWs, JDM icons, and more, more, more.
We’ll be there, too! Me, Torch, will be there, delighted to meet you, along with David and Matt, all eager to say hello and see your faces and provide, weather permitting, soothing hugs.
Seriously, this is a genuinely wonderful car show, with all sorts of amazing cars that you just never get to see, and will very likely make your life better for having seen them.
It’s cars, wonderful cars, all crammed into a big yet walkable area, all for you to enjoy. Come out! It’ll be great!
about the soothing hugs? Did you slather yourselves in aloe vera before engaging in said embraces?
Ugh, I had registered and then the master cylinder on the Jag decided to give out at just the wrong time and render the car unfit to drive from San Diego to LA. I hope everyone had a great day!!!
I hate when that happens. Particularly at the end of a long straightaway. JK. I’m sorry for your mechanical life complications.
I’m still traumatized by having watched The Black Hole at WAY too young an age, but I’m on the wrong coast for making it to the car show. Whatever shall I do??
Absinthe and Yoohoo for you, I’m afraid.
It better still have the wormwood in it then!
“sulk, eat corn chips in bed, drink homemade cocktails of Yoo-Hoo and absinthe that you call a Count Chokeula while watching Disney’s sci-fi flop The Black Hole on repeat in your dark bedroom”
Sounds fun, anyone up for a watch party?
Man, wish I was there. Have fun for all of non-shows here.
Sorry, at over 2200 miles away, I could not make it there in time in my El Camino.
I liked it better when David invited people to gather in Wal-Mart parking lots off of Woodward Avenue. 🙂
Sadly, I live on the other coast, so I think I WILL watch the Black Hole. Saw it in the theater as a kid, and damn, I still recall how it shifted from straight up space opera to Kubrickian bad trip w/o a clutch.
Me too! Man as a kid in the theater (I think I was about 8 yo at the time) the plot lost me. The visuals held me pretty well. Maybe?
I’ve tried rewatching a few times and I always fall asleep. That probably says all that needs saying.
Literally the only thing I remember about it is the dented-up Temu R2D2.
Let me see, all the proper cars are either broken or not here. the notyet dead Leaf can only go 40 miles (I love this thing, it was almost free[£200], the nearest town is 14 miles away, all downhill, by the time it is in town it claims to have 60 miles range, back home it claims to have 20. Plug it in to the wind turbine thing that uses an old washing machine motor as a generator and next day it is good to go) The only other thing that works is the tatty Fowler, 15 mph, coal, water, permits, customs and shipping passports and all the easy bits permitting I will be there in or around November the tenth 2037. I look foward to meeting you all
Too far north to attend, but I’ll have you know I eat my corn popped and drink coffee and diet root beer while watching old YouTube videos on repeat…in my dark bedroom, that part is correct.
I’ll replace my broken “smart” bulbs eventually.
That pretty much sounds a lot like my average day. 🙂
Ugh, when will Galpin learn the REAL automotive hotspot of this universe, extended universe, and most of the higher quality fanfiction is Merritt’s Grill in Chapel Hill?
Sadly, there‘s an ocean plus an entire continent separating me from Los Angeles (and, well, all of France), so I‘ll have to pass. Wishing you all a good time there!
Just a fair warning if you are going to watch The Black Hole make sure it is the Disney version the one showing at The Ellis Island Hotel is a totally different genre.
lol.
fan.