So I got the tour flyer from the San Diego Region advertising a tour to Barrett-Jackson!  Wow, I hadn’t heard about a San Diego Barrett-Jackson sale!  I just have to go!  Oh, wait, it’s Barrett JUNCTION Cafe  !!  D’oh!

Actually, this Cafe was a fun place with good food,  a great roadside restaurant.

The whole tour was a very relaxed drive through back country San Diego county, on nice, clear, 2 lane highways – the old highway 80,  and some of the current 94.  Driving the older cars on an uncrowded period correct road is a lot of fun, it was a great day out.  Here’s a beautiful ’40 Cadillac Coupe in Antoinette blue –  it looks black in the photo, but it’s really not.

Here’s the fearless tour leader’s Packard V-12 Limousine

Here’s a lovely Chrysler Town & Country.  Behind it are the Corvettes from a Corvette club that used the Barrett-JUNCTION as a lunch stop!

Here’s a nice ’39 Packard Super 8 sedan!

A beautiful Pierce-Arrow V-12 Victoria coupe.

A beautiful 1937 Packard V-12 coupe-roadster.

And a Coral Blue and Vanderbilt Grey ’47 Packard.

This is why going on the road is so interesting –   this building was the old Feldspar milling building, and now it’s full of old trucks and machinery of the Motor Transport Museum.  they have a nice website, including lots of photos of the inside of the building and more close-ups of the contents here : http://www.motortransportmuseum.org/

Rows and Rows of old trucks.

And old buses

WWII era in the foreground, looks like a Deuce and a half,  and WW1 in the background, a Mack C Cab.

A ’57  Reo .  I know this because I read the sign!

This fine specimen is for sale!  it’s on their website for only $1,400!

Here’s the dope on the Feldspar mill, where the motor transport museum is now located.

Old machinery in a peaceful environment.

How about a steamroller!

They have giant engines, too.  I would have loved to go through it, but after finding their website, it was almost as good as going inside.