Fords Unlimited car show

Since I particularly like Ford cars (especially the late 1960's musclecars) I thought that I would pop along to the 22nd Annual 'Fords unlimited' Car Show. This is held at the 131-acre J S McDonnell Park in St Louis County & is open to all factory Ford-powered vehicles, vehicles that were originally Ford powered, currently Ford powered vehicles, & vehicles with Ford or Ford replica bodies. There is no vehicle age limit so as well as classic cars there were also brand new vehicles such as Mustangs (including a few Shelby GT500s). The park is located close to I-270 in St Ann (St Louis County) & is fairly picturesque with fairly hilly terrain & lots of trees. The park has a circular access road which was completely full with parked show vehicles.

After finding a parking space away from the main show area I walked around the park a few times checking out the vehicles. Vehicles were grouped by class which made it really easy to compare different vehicles of the same model. The weather was sunny & very, very, hot. The organising club provided a 'cooling booth' at the main shelter but it looked like the heat was too much for some people & the emergency services were called. When I left there were still cars arriving (I had looked at over 200 cars) & earlier on during the morning the host club announced that the previous attendance record for the show had been broken. There was a great variety of vehicles present (even though they were all Ford related) with some really obscure, rare vehicles (e.g. a 1965 Ford Mustang T5 fastback export model - one of 30 worldwide), modified & custom cars, replicas, & concours restored musclecars.