One beautiful Saturday in August, another couple, Harry and I went to see a group of antique cars gathered at our local high school. The high school just happened to be a "pit stop" for a group driving antique cars (1910 or older) 75 miles from New London to New Brighton. It was so fun to see all those old cars --- and they actually ran!
The group was reenacting another journey held in England 100 years earlier. Back then, cars owners drove from London to Brighton to celebrate the repeal of a law stating cars owners needed to always have someone walking ahead of them waving a flag so the cars didn't scare the horses on the road. Can you imagine how slowly they must have traveled?
I enjoyed spotting anachronisms:
• motor oil poured into the engine of a 1908 Maxwell from a plastic quart bottle
• a plastic funnel used to help get modern-day motor oil into the engine of an old Cadillac
• a Diet Coke can used to prevent oil from spraying around the engine of a 1906 Ford
The real anachronisms, of course, were the cars themselves!
a•nach•ro•nism - something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time, esp. a thing or person that belongs to an earlier time
Can you tell I like to see the fun in life?
Sue
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