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/
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.
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.