I'd never heard of a Caballero, until I saw this at the Coronado annual car show, Orange and Isabella

Best of Show winner at the annual GoodGuys show.
Because the Century was considered the senior "small Buick", the model received GM's only hardtop station wagon, the Century Caballero, from 1957 through 1958. The Caballero's expensive tooling, plus its limited sales appeal, caused GM to abandon the hardtop station wagon body style going into its planned 1959 divisional-wide new design program.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buick_Century
The most remarkable part of this wagon is the wrap around rear window that raised up. Sorry i didn't take a picture of it now.

James has a cool Nash Statesman Super, and he's switched to an 87 Corvette powertrain, and bagged it. It is bitchin!

My favorite parts of rarre cars... the speedometer and the radio, and these are two of the best looking!

and the Kaiser in the magazine below? That is what James is going to make next!

Two guys couldn't get what they wanted. One built this car with parts off a wreck caused by a 16yr old who had a temper and destroyed his dad's GT/CS

An example of "what if" Ford had sold convertible 1968 GT/CS to the public, was put together by starting with a 1968 convertable stang, and using the unique parts from a real GT/CS.

Those rare parts were holding together what remained of a California Special that a kid thought his dad should have presented him with on his 16th birthday. When he didn't get his way, and blew his top, he put sugar in the gas tank, and broke the windshield.

See also: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2006/11/can-you-tell-what-makes-this-gt-cs-one.html

Oldsmobile Holiday 98 at Coronado

Thanks S R Management for correcting me... of course it's an Olds... I was tired when I posted this!

Matador X... at Coronado, how'd that slip past the car snobs?

http://www.javelinamx.com/JavHome/articles/matx-rt.htm for a Motor Trend evaluation of the Matador when it was released

These photos reflect the Southern California feeling, convertibles and sports cars, and custom trucks.

Stuff that caught my eye at Coronado's annual car show

42 Hp... that's cute

Nice prop to have in your car!

I've been looking for this car with the hubcap airfilter housing... way cool modification!

The Chevrolet dealership that sponsored the show had rockstar parking for their Camaros.

I doubt we'll see another tach like this...

Airguide made gauges for boats and yachts, You can buy NOS ones here: http://www.classicboatwork.com/classicparts/gauges/airguide/airguide.html

The above speedometer is in a Buick LeSabre, and what you are actually looking at is a mirror that has an adjustment to the angle for people of different height. A technical innovation to keep all the instruments in the lower area of the dash in order to repair them easily. Damn nice design feature, and unique too!