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One of our museum volunteers, Rob Kaufman, works as a videographer for a major company and he made a great video about the show.

Already working on planning the 2023 CotAC event, Craig. Jeff Chattin will likely not be able to attend with his fabulous 1911 Thomas Flyer next year, as he and some other old car crazies are committed to doing a transcontinental trip from Key West to the Arctic Circle! Seems his trip from Georgia to Vermont and back just wasn't long enough... LOL!

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We're already looking at the date for CotAC II. I like the May date, as the weather usually cooperates, but May has Memorial Day and Mothers Day, so that leaves just two possible Saturdays, the first and third weekend. There's an AACA National in Gettysburg the weekend of the 20th, but that seems to be the best choice right now. Would love to see one of your Coles!

Just wondering, after seeing the really diverse group of great cars brought to such an annoying-titled show, if you still wouldn't have attended?

The People's Choice votes for 'Best of Show' and 'Car I WIsh Was Mine' at the Celebration of the Authentic Car event have been tabulated. The winner in both categories is the same car, Millard Choate's gorgeous 1934 Packard 1104 Super Eight dual-cowl phaeton. In 'Best of Show,' Millard's beauty was the runaway favorite of the voters, with a total more than twice that of the second place car. In the 'Car I Wish Was Mine' category, his Packard garned one more vote than the second place car, Tom Morton's 1948 Mercury. Congratulations to Millard, whom I will be contacting about where to send a personalized plaque commemorating his CotAC honors.

Here's another car in the CotAC show at the railway museum that somehow escaped being shown in the photos supplied to me, Jay Friedman's 1949 Cadillac Club Coupe. Wouldn't want to exclude it, as the car got several votes in the Peoples Choice voting. I drove a similar car extensively in the past and it would be one I would love to have in my garage. First pic supplied by Jay at my request.

The show's ''parking lot manager' Rick Kamen posted some additional views of a few of the CotAC cars on a Facebook page that I want to share because of their different angles.. 1911 Thomas Flyer 1913 Pope-Hartford 1934 Packard 1104 Super Eight 1948 Mercury 1934 Terraplane

Alsancle, Every single owner who brought a car to the CotAC event was a very nice guy!

I was too too busy to take any pics, but my esteemed museum co-worker Ora Ball did take a few and I snagged them from his Facebook page to post here. Like I said earlier, one heck of a group of cars! 1911 Thomas Flyer. Owner Jeff Chattin drove this car from Georgia to Vermont and back recently! 1913 Pope-Harford. 1927 Packard 426. 1928 Essex Super Six (corrected) 1930 Ford Model A. 1931 Ford Model A slant-windshield sedan. 1932 Essex. 1934 Packard 1104 dual-cowl phaeton. 1934 Terraplane. Can't remember when I last saw one of these. 1935 Rolls-Royce Phantom 2 with body by Barker. BTW, any serious Corvair enthusiast should recognize the guy in the T-shirt and white cap. 1942 Ford GPW jeep. 1948 Mercury. 1941 Cadillac 1930 Model A coupe and 1941 Cadillac. FWIW, only four or five of these cars were trailered to the show. The rest drove in...

Lord-willing, and if the creek don't rise, we will do this event next year. Watch for the date annoucement in July. Which is exactly why the CotAC show was created.

A huge atta-boy to Rob Kaufman, who provided the gigantic B52 PA sound system used for the CotAC show and who also located the great '20-30s music we played during the event. Rob creates internal videos for a major cellphone company and he will be doing a video about today's CotAC show soon. I'll post a link here when it is available. He has several videos on his "Cool Things with Rob" YouTube channel I am sure you will enjoy. One is car-related and one is related to the Southeastern Railway Museum. Here's a couple of links. 1934 Brewster-Ford 1957 Birmingham zoo train I also need to give an atta-boy and an atta-girl to SRM volunteers and my fellow co-workers Ora Ball and Leslie Storey, without whom this show could not have happened. And to old friend Rick Kamen, a huge orphan car enthusiast and veteran promoter of numerous car shows, who provided much advice and who also fulfilled the role of show field parking maestro. He's almost more excited about the CoaAC concept that I am.

Before I crash for the second time today, I'm going to try to list the cars and terrific owners who supported the inaugural CotAC event. I know I am missing a few folks (I was kinda busy during the day...). Please post and add your car and name to the list if you are not on this roster. 1927 Packard 426 sedan - James Reeve (if you are a Corvair enthusiast, you know who he is!) 1932 Essex sedan - Brandon White 1934 Packard 1104 dual-cowl phaeton - Millard Choate 1948 Mercury - Tom Morton 1911 Thomas Flyer - Jeff Chattin 1934 Terraplane sedan - Tom Citro 1941 Cadillac - Robert Johns 1928 Essex Super Six sedan - Nanci & Garry David 1930 Ford Model A coupe - Steve Mayer. This is a one-family car purchased new! Diehard Auburn fans so painted in the school's colors. 1935 Roll-Royce Phantom II bodied by Barker - John Bailey Two Ford Model As and a 1941 Cadillac - John Landstrom, a local who drove home and swapped cars twice during the show! John is a nationally-known European motorcycle expert and owner of the famous Blue Moon Cycles in Norcross, GA. 1942 Ford GPW WWII jeep - Robert Brough 1929 Model A Ford - Rob Lawrence 1913 Pope-Harford - Chris Padgett. If Chris doesn't bring his holy-grail 1908 Stanley Model K Roadster (now undergoing engine repair) next year, I'm going to unfriend him... LOL! 1929 Ford Model A taxi - Lisa & Hal Dye. A much rarer special Model A than most realize. Hal's dad, Harold, now 97, was one of my mentors in the old car hobby when I was in HS in Nashville. 1930 Ford Model A - Jim Mitchell 1949 Cadillac (manufactured in 1948!) - Jay Friedman Not sure it would be possible to assemble a more impressive group of cars of this size. Anyone who attended the show in a car that didn't meet the admittedly-narrow CotAC criteria was directed a close-by parking lot as the secondary 'non-CotAC' car show, to receive some car-folks love of their own. I have some crazy ideas for the 2023 show that we are now committed to holding next year. Stay tuned!

What a show! One of the best groups of maybe two dozen cars one could ever hope for. Much thanks and love to the wonderful old car folks who supported my crazy idea. I was so beat I came home at about 5 PM and promptly fell asleep on the couch for about three hours... Will post more about CotAC in a bit. We've aleady decided there will be another one in 2023 and we'll announce the date no later than this July!

Hate to hear that, Paul. And hate that you have to go through a second knee replacement. That really stinks. Was looking forward to meeting you. Get well soon!

Real sad you won't be able to come to the show, Alan.

1937hd45, I assume your barb is directed at me, since this show is completely my idea and is also being self-funded by me. So I'd be interested in why you would term me a 'clueless one,' if you're willing to say. Perhaps you should know I ran this concept by probably forty or fifty of the key players in the antique, classic, and collector car hobby (if you want names, I will share them privately with you) for better than two years before pulling the trigger on it. There was virtually no one who was negative about it. I've been in the antique car hobby since I was 12 years old, and am now approaching 68.

Correct. The only real questions were: would owners of such cars support an event with that narrow criteria, and would they be willing to battle the traffic issues we suffer from in the Atlanta area in order to participate? It looks like the answers to both question are yes. We'll know for sure in three days...

The Celebration of the Authentic Car show will make no distinction between restored and unrestored cars. As the flyer states, "The idea is that cars in the CotAC show appear visually as they did when new and also maintain their original style drivetrain." Condition is not an issue, although I hope no one brings a badly-rusted, non-running, dirty car they just dragged away from a junkyard! We'd probably still let the car in, keeping in mind that 1925 Bugatti Brescia retrieved from the depths of a European lake after 75 years that now resides at the Mullin Museum. An interesting aspect of the CotAC concept is that the original idea was to attract vehicles from the greater Atlanta area, perhaps within a 50-mile radius. Based on the many communications I have received, the concept has much longer legs than that. Had a car coming from Savannah until the missus tested positive for COVID a couple of days ago, should have a car driving down from Franklin, NC, and an AACA member from Charlotte indicates he and several others would definitely attend if not for a competing AACA Grand National in VA this weekend. Honestly, I didn't expect this. At this point, we fully expect that CotAC will be an annual event and will promptly publicize the date of the 2023 show.

We really need to figure out how to have more than 52 weekends per year! LOL! The May 21 date was the only Saturday in May the museum didn't have another event already scheduled.

The link kgreen gave above contains content generated by someone else and I am not even able to add a post below it. From the CotAC flyer, here are the criteria: "All authentic cars, through 1948, restored or not, are invited to enter the CotAC show. The idea is that cars in the CotAC show appear visually as they did when new and also maintain their original style drivetrain. For example, small block Chevy engines or mag wheels on a pre-war car are not authentic features. A ‘34 Ford with a ‘41 engine or a Model A Ford with later Ford V8 wheels will be fine. No one should feel slighted that their car doesn’t meet the show’s narrow criteria. The point is that the CotAC automobiles should represent and illustrate the accurate history of their day and time." The factory finishes issue is not a big deal, as authentic cars in the period could (and were) often painted in non-factory colors.

Was it Lincoln who said, "The surest path to failure is to try to please all the people all the time"? The basic concept of the CotAC show is to attempt to fill a void in the greater Atlanta car show 'scene.' To hold a show where unmodified cars, restored or not, are, well... celebrated and displayed to the public, other owners of similar cars, and people who appreciate the history of the vehicles. It's basically a test case to determine whether a show of this nature will receive sufficient 'buy-in' from the owners of authentic cars to indicate the validity of the concept and to also indicate whether it is worthwhile trying to continue the event in the Atlanta area in the future. We'll know in a few days, but if the people who have contacted me to tell me what cars they're bringing show up, it's going to be a very interesting day in terms of quality of the vehicles.

Heard today that we should have a Thomas Flyer coming, as well as a Pope-Hartford. It's very gratifying to anticipate this kind of support for the CotAC concept.

I think some of you guys ought to consider relocating to the sunny south… LOL!

What is termed an ‘open car show,’ which is just about all we have around here these days.