We had a very vintage Father’s Day. Every year on Father’s Day, Greenfield Village has a Motor Muster, and is jam packed full of classic cars, vintage style refreshments, and historic re-enactments. We have been going for a few years now, and this year by far was the absolute busiest we have seen it. There were also three times the cars on display as well!
I took fifty billion photos but I will refrain from sharing all of them – I really took a million. We all had favorites though, and favorite areas! Billy loves all things VW and they had so many this year. Our favorite was a 1977 Camper Van that has been in the same family since 1981. Wyatt wanted to get in it so bad – he is apparently a new fan of them as well. They would be pretty cool to tool around in! One of my friends in high school had an orange one and I didn’t appreciate how neat it was until much later. The green one pictured is the one that has been owned by the same family since 1981 – it is even the perfect color!
This year Hagerty Driver’s Club had old Broncos on display, and they were a huge draw, especially since the new Broncos are out. This is the Motor City all, so we are all about cars here. I dream about owning a vintage Bronco, they are so awesome and massive.
I settled for a polaroid of my guys posing in front of it.
Wyatt and I both also liked this crazy looking van. It was so super glittery and colorful how could you not like it? Wyatt also wanted to get in there and play too. Apparently we need some sort of van.
We all loved the historic re-enactments – they were all CCC and Forest Service related, so of course we did. Billy and I love that whole era so it was really neat to walk around the CCC encampment, and meet the women of the “She-she-she”. I loved that they were teaching women real skills so that they could get jobs, things like refinishing furniture and sewing. Eleanor Roosevelt did not like women being left out of the opportunities that were presented by the CCC so she started her camps for women to learn these skills. There were also “Forest Rangers” from the 40s. During the war, these men were usually out managing timber for the war efforts.
However Wyatt’s favorite moment of our time there? Meeting the pack horse librarian who gave him a library card. Prepare for us to go exploring a new rabbit hole together!
Ok and finally, the Vernors truck!! Vernors is the ginger ale choice in Detroit. It is the cure all you know. It can heal any ailment! And look at that mischievous looking imp on the logo.
Ok last photos just for fun…
We left after lunch and headed home for a quick little nap. After nap, Billy wanted to go to our favorite picnic spot, where we like to just go and relax and enjoy the shade and breeze that we always get there.
It was a very full, outdoors kind of day and was completely wonderful!
Still Life, With Cracker Crumbs.. 
Another amazing day! Sounds like ones my husband and I enjoyed. We had a van we used to take to all the car shows in our area. It had a custom paint job and he had it modefied where it could “talk” to people as they walked by. I had no use for it after he died so I ended up selling it.
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That is so fun, that he could “talk” to people who walked by! I loved all the vintage, classic redone vans!!!
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What a glorious car show!!! I will have to try to remember this so I can get Mike to go up! He would love it. His first (real) car was a 1965 GTO. Sadly, he’d sold it by the time we started dating. I keep telling him he should try to find one.
There is a woman here in our town who has a VW van and has had it perfectly restored…it is fabulous! I would love to own one of those, too! It’s funny because I wasn’t really into cars until I met Mike. Now, I think I’m more into them than he is! I just love the lines of the bodies and the details. Have you ever gone to the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum in Auburn, IN? It has some amazing cars there. And, the festival is always fun…crazy crowded though.
Thanks for sharing this!
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They usually do one like this for Father’s Day, and then another version mid-summerish. That one has evening hours and more music and Billy and I like to get a grandma to watch Wyatt and go just ourselves.
I have never been to that museum but it sounds really neat!
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That looks like an amazing day! All those vans and cars were awesome. Now I want some of that ginger ale!
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Vernors is the best! Far superior to Canada Dry in my opinion. LOL.
It was a really neat car show! We could not get over the number of cars there this year!
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Does it have actual ginger in it? Unlike Canada Dry. lol
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Sadly, it doesn’t anymore. It is still freaking awesome though. Lol. https://www.10best.com/interests/food-culture/why-detroiters-are-obsessed-with-the-cure-all-ginger-drink-vernors/
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Broncos!!!! I want the new Bronco Sport SO bad and my BFF Melodi had one of those old Broncos in the 80s!!! We lived in Arizona and I remember she picked me up in hers…a red one…top down…and we drove all over Scottsdale and Paradise Valley to get to the mall the long way. So much fun! Her brother worked on old cars and she and her Mom always had a cool car from Broncos to Porsches to Triumph TR-7s to Fiats…meanwhile I had my dad’s Ford LTD…a huge boat of a car.
Anyway!!! The Bronco Melodi used to have is worth some major money these days. Wow.
I want that VW camper!!!!! I could go camping in that for sure. LOL
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