THE TRAIN KEPT A COMIN - MORE MARVELOUS METAL FROM THE BRUNS ROD + CUSTOM RETRO FEST . . . . BRUNSWICK HEADS IS A SMALL BURG OFF THE PACIFIC HIGHWAY JUST SOUTH OF THE BORDER, THE OLD HIGHWAY USED TO RUN RIGHT THROUGH ITS GUTS . . . . AS THE BYPASS WAS BEING BUILT THERE WAS TALK OF BRUNS DYING AND LOSING OUT . . . . LUCKILY, THAT SHIT NEVER REALLY HAPPENED, IT'S ACTUALLY PRESERVED ITS UNTAINTED APPEAL.

A HANDFUL OF UNRELATED VEE-HICKLES THAT CAUGHT THE EYE OF MYSELF AND CHOOK WHILE DOIN THE ROUNDS ON SUNDAY MORN . . . . THE EX-BILLY GIBBONS CADDY IS AN AMAZINGLY EYE STRAINING EXERCISE IN SUBTLETY WHICH IS SORTA LOST IN PHOTOS BUT CHECK OUT THE 'BLOW-UP' IMAGE OF THE FLAKE ROOF . . . . THE LIME GREEN WILLYS, WELL, WHY WOULDN'T YOU, THE DEFINITIVE MODERN DAY GASSER HOMAGE . . . . A LEGIT REPLICA OF THE SO-CAL LEGEND PUT TOGETHER A FEW YEARS BACK WITH THE HELP OF MR SHINE AND CHAPOURIS, SHINE WAS BACK AGAIN THIS YEAR . . . . A '57 OLDS CUSTOM WITH A SUBDUED MIX OF SATIN AND GLOSS TANGERINE HIGHLIGHTS OVER A PALE BRONZE BASE . . . . AND FINALLY A TRIO OF PRE-WAR RODS THAT WHILE NOT SETTING ANY PRECEDENTS WERE EVOCATIVE OF WHAT RODDING WAS ALL ABOUT BACK IN THE MISTS OF TIME . . . . IT MIGHTN'T BE THE BIGGEST AND SHINIEST SHOW IN THE COUNTRY BUT IT'S A BLOODY GREAT VIBE IN A GORGEOUS SEASIDE TOWN THAT HAS REMAINED UNFUCKED BY THE RAVAGES OF THE WORLD AT LARGE.