Antique & Classic Cars Blog

Another excellent use for your classic or regular car this weekend is to point it at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds, drive there and have fun!

My family was in town, so according to the law of brothers, we competed in everything all week, from mini golf (Science Museum and Course in Richfied on Portland Avenue) to pool (Brit’s, downtown Minneapolis) to kid-Green-Beret-qualification contests at a playground jungle jim (“you have to slide down this pole, touch the sand with your hands only, then climb back up; if your feet touch the ground, you have to go again…”).

My brother Kirk slaughtered me at mini golf and destroyed me at pool, but we fared equally doing jungle jim stuff and I pulled ahead, most importantly, shooting the star at the state fair. Since our kid days firing BB guns at plastic army men set up on saw horses, we have competed as marksmen.

(Let me pause here to add a picture of these cool Dodges we saw to keep the whole car thing going…)

Here’s the result of that contest. Ahh, signing your name on the target card…is there anything greater that can be done without a sports car and a hundred miles of winding country road?

We also did the climbing wall (only grown-ups to do so, as far as we could tell, but grown up is such a realative term).

We took my MG, which allowed us to wedge into a curbside spot in that residential neighborhood opposite the fairgrounds and not pay for parking. The savings went into brotherly competition at the fairgrounds— “which cup are you trying to throw the whiffle ball at? –which cup are you aiming at?! –OK, you didn’t say which cup, so I win that competition.”

So take your classic–and your brother–and head over to the fair this weekend. And if you go to the crossbow shoot at the midway, be sure to look at the signed bullseyes… and if you ever meet my younger brother, be sure to say, “hey, didn’t your brother outshoot you at the Minnesota State Fair?” He’ll appreciate it—and I’ll appreciate it more. Thanks!

(Although we split into separate creatures millions (hundreds?) of years ago, the similarities between man and pig are still obvious.)

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