So yesterday morning we drove to Columbia in the Mini, essentially a one hundred twenty mile round trip for breakfast. Some people might question this method of purchasing the most important meal of the day, but we could think of no finer way to spend 3 hours on a lovely fall Saturday.
On second thought, we could.
So after a lunch at Subway here in Aiken yesterday, we filled up the Miata, dropped the top and drove to Greenwood, about 60 miles away, to take a photo of a train locomotive. Not just any locomotive, but one worth 10 points in the Moss Motoring Challenge in the category “117 Years of Transportation.” Before we took this drive we still needed 4 of the 12 photos, the decades of 1900, 1910, 1950 & 1980.
On our way into Greenwood I got a fleeting glimpse of a car repair place that had a very interesting old truck parked outside. Because we were going to go back out of town the same way we were coming in I didn’t pull an immediate u-turn. The shop was further back than I thought though and I was just beginning to worry I had imagined it, when it popped up on the left.
The 111-year old train was the big prize, but this auto repair was a nice prize in it’s own right. That old truck was a 1954 or 1955 Chevy 3100 pick up. And in the back was our 1980’s point just sitting there, a nicely preserved Pontiac Fiero. Before we had headed north we cut through a local golf course neighborhood to get a photo for our last point in the “Around the World” category.
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- 117 Years of Transportation – 1954 Chevrolet 3100 Pickup: We made a trip to Greenwood, SC to photograph a 1906 train locomotive and also stumbled onto an interesting auto repair place. This one was out front sitting on 20″ chrome dubs with rubber band tires. It is either a ’54 or ’55 because of the one piece curved windshield. (11/18/17)
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- 117 Years of Transportation – 1986 Pontiac Fiero 2M6 GT : We made a trip to Greenwood, SC to photograph a 1906 train locomotive and also stumbled onto an auto repair place. This was one of a few cars that looks like it was still a daily driver. I’m guessing an ’86 because of 2M6 GT badges on the tail. (11/18/17)
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- Around the World 15 – Inverness: One of the streets in a local golfing communities named for famous golfing locations. (11/18/17)
