Adrian Baldwin
  • Home
  • About Me
  • Observations
  • Reviews
  • Blog
  • The Blog Library
  • My 70s Things
  • Contact Me
  • Links

Magnificent Mustang

6/13/2017

1 Comment

 
​Something funny happened at lunchtime today and I thought I’d share it with you. I was taking my constitutional walk into Newport Pagnell and back when I stopped dead in my tracks, hands on hips, to watch this beautiful car drive past me in the direction of the town centre.

Now bearing in mind that Tickford Street (B526) is home to the Aston Martin works and there is a new and vintage car showroom on site, you might guess that it was an Aston that caught my attention…

…but it wasn’t, it was a modified sixties, 67 I think (single rectangular rear lights), Mustang GT Fastback in a shade of dark green (not unlike the Hornsea Heirloom mug on my desk in the office) with a thick black coach line down its flanks.

I saw it coming, stopped at the Ivy Close junction and watched it drive slowly by. Then I turned so my gaze could follow it into the distance. It was spotless and magnificent, at least to my eyes anyway.

Now regular readers will know that vintage cars are one of my “things”. If you are a regular, or even if you are not, you might be wondering what is amusing about me looking at a smart motor? And that would be a fair question.

Well, I was stood at the roadside with this big smile on my face watching a car when only a few yards ahead of me (and walking towards me) was this young (at least compared to me – late twenties I would guess), attractive, slim woman with blond hair wearing a fitted bright blue dress and black Rayban Wayfarers. The car and the woman together would have had serious calendar potential. 

What was funny was that I hadn’t even noticed her. What was even funnier was that she had noticed that instead of ogling at her (which I am sure she would expect from more fellas than not) I was gazing longingly at a car. When the Mustang had gone by and I was facing the right direction again, she caught my eye and gave me an amused but friendly smile. We said “hello” and carried on our ways, me already thinking “I must be getting old” and her thinking, well God only knows what – “sad old duffer” probably.

I carried on walking and got to thinking that perhaps we could meet up again in the future. Maybe there is even potential for this coming weekend.

Because I am going to the American Automobile Club International (AACI) Summer Open Nationals at Kelmarsh Hall on Sunday. I’ll be taking my camera, if I see the Mustang there, I’ll take a photo of it and will share it with you next week.

Blog Home
Blog Library
Home
Follow @AdrianBaldwin71
1 Comment
Andrew
6/13/2017 01:01:29 pm

Nice one,... Too old? Never!!

Reply



Leave a Reply.

    Adrian Baldwin

    Blogging for more than a decade



    Archives

    February 2025
    January 2025
    October 2024
    September 2024
    August 2024
    February 2024
    September 2023
    August 2023
    June 2023
    December 2022
    July 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    May 2021
    October 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    March 2020
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    September 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    December 2012
    November 2012
    October 2012
    September 2012
    August 2012
    July 2012
    June 2012
    May 2012
    April 2012
    March 2012
    February 2012
    January 2012
    December 2011
    November 2011

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.