Spot the difference…

Just before Christmas, the Cranksters held their Christmas Picnic at Whiteman Park – the deciding factor being the onsite Car Museum, but the guys said it was because there was a swimming pool. It was about 40degrees and poor Santa suffered in his polyester suit.

Anyway, the Museum holds a match to our 1957 Dusk Rose Thunderbird, and despite urban legend that the 2 cars have never been sighted together (much the same as LaToya and Michael Jackson), they are different cars! The Whiteman Park Tbird was owned by Paul Terry, a WA entrepeneur who passed away some years ago. Our Tbird was imported from the States by our friend Tony sometime last decade.

Actually, the cars have been in the same room before, as our mechanic will attest. We once booked the Tbird in for repairs and the Terry Tbird was already in the garage! That was slightly weird.

Overnight rain and cloudy weather did not deter our regular breakfast gang from meeting today, Sunday December 5th, at The Kiosk Floreat Beach carpark for our Christmas meet and eat.

The rain stayed away, and mechanical hitches kept a few friends from joining in, but the rest of us had more than enough caffeine and carbs to fuel us through the morning. Apparently one person (who shall remain anonymous) will be telling his wife he had fruit salad with lo-fat yoghurt and a green tea (right!).

Rob (who may or may not be the abovementioned) had an issue with his spoke-balancing (I may not have that right, being a girl), so he hitched a ride with Boris in the Firebird while Rachel raced in with her fab 66 Alfa Duetto (they parked a respectful distance away from the Tbirds). We also met Canadians Yvonne and Harvey who showed us photos of their Tbird back home.

Doc’s 66 Tbird convertible arrived late but in style after a flat tyre incident.

See more pics in the Gallery here.