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And I saved the BEST for last!!!!

AnthraciteAspec

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Nice, those NSXs are sweet!

It's Clutch

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niiice

Steven Bell

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+1

CLtotheTL32

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Nice mini-meet man! All of the cars are looking great.

Those NSX's are pure sex.

jeowen

nice TL's for sure man............but mouth dropped at the NSX shot

salu8819

NSX= Sex

bzyrice

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nice.. wish i couldve made it out.. i need to get a ride in a boosted tl.. lol

rodneyc77

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Nice Intimate meet... Thanks for sharing...

minkl81

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nsx

gatrhumpy

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From my wife's blog:

Last Saturday, the fam and I went to "Cars and Coffee" (jacksonville.carsandcoffee.info) at River City Marketplace. Every month, on the second Saturday of the month, car enthusiasts from the Jacksonville area meet to look at and talk about their cars. I'm not sure I would classify my husband as a "car enthusiast". I don't know if that's an extreme enough term. You might call him a "car enthusiast" if you could call someone a "heroin enthusiast." The man eats, sleeps and breathes cars. He's a walking car encyclopedia.

But I digress.

So we headed to River City Marketplace Saturday morning, and the weather was nice. It was a little hot out, but there wasn't a cloud in the sky. I'd never been to River City Marketplace, but I really liked it. I'll have to go back on a shopping day with some girlfriends. Lots of great stores -- it reminded me of St. Johns Town Center.

We parked Jim's Honda Accord (otherwise known as "the other woman"), and got out to have a look around. Okay, before I tell you about the car meet, I might as well admit up front that my knowledge of cars is "limited". And when I say "limited" I mean "non-existent". At the meet, when Jim pointed to a car and said "Do you know what kind of car that is?" I would answer "yes, that's a blue car." Also, I would frequently embarrass him with comments like "oooh! Is that Lightning McQueen's Girlfriend car?" Then Jim would have to roll his eyes and mumble, "It's called a Porsche, honey." To which I would reply, "Ohmigod, look at that other car over there....it looks like Doc Hudson!"

Still, walking around looking at the nice cars was really fun. Jim was truly in his element, looking at the cars and telling me facts about them. Katie's questions about the various cars however mostly consisted of "when's lunch?"

The coolest car there that day had to be a tiny little sports car called a 427 Mustang Shelby Cobra. It's owner was sitting in a captain's chair just answering questions, and soaking up the rays and the "wow, awesome car" comments. "Is it a replica?" Jim asked the guy, "Oh yeah," the guy laughed. The original would be well over six figures to buy, Jim explained. We also a Honda NSX, a rare car made in the 90s that cost well over 90 thousand back then. We saw a black Lamborghini that a bunch of guys were taking pictures of, and Lotus Exige (ex-eej) which looked like a race car. Instead of seat belts, it had five point harnesses. Although it looked like it was made only for a race track, Jim explained that it was "street legal" which means you can drive it on the roads.

Katie and I were very outnumbered gender-wise. Most of the people there were single men, or fathers and their kids. Christian seemed to have a good time, although he really wanted to get out of his stroller and touch the cars. He wanted to climb into the driver's seat and press all the buttons, which wasn't really going on much around us. It warmed my heart though, to picture Christian and Jim doing lots of father/son activities like this as Christian gets older.

All in all, it was a fun afternoon. After looking at cars, we went shopping for Halloween stuff in the shopping center, and then went on to have lunch at Chilis. We'll definitely be back to do this again. In the meantime, I'll brush up on my car knowledge. So if you'll excuse me, I'm going to put the Pixar's "Cars" DVD on again....

CLtotheTL32

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^Nice blog! That's awesome how your wife goes to those type of things with you. I drag my girlfriend around as well haha

Awesome pictures. I'm not too fond of the parts on the purple Charger (more the wheels than anything), but the color is HOT!

gatrhumpy

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Thanks. She enjoys it. She usually does nights out type of thing, where she will review an event or restauraunt, but she said she had the most fun writing that car meet post because she was uninhibited. It showed, as it was pretty funny.

LoveMyTL-S

Great blog by your wife Jim. Great to see you guys out there. Also nice to meet Katie. I could tell she was your wife's sister right off. Thanks for posting the pics........

gatrhumpy

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Thanks Mike. I'm sorry to say that I won't be there during the next meet. By the time of the one in December, I will have painted my carbon fiber hood, and possibly my engine bay parts.

trojanman10984

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great pics! the cobra and that lotus are HAWWWTTTT!!!!

is the lady behind the purple charger giving someone the bird??