Back when I was a kid, we visited my maternal grandparents (Granddaddy and Bolette) in Detroit a few times a year. We would often drive down in January to see the Detroit Auto Show. Snow be damned. My dad was an expert driver (and pilot) and gave us a safe ride. (It was an 11 hour drive before the Mackinac Bridge was built and five hours after, give or take weather/traffic conditions.)

In the early years, our whole family would go to Cobo Hall for the show. When I got to be a tween/teen, The Comm and I would walk over to the downtown Hudson’s department store (where she once worked) and shop until we dropped. We’d have lunch on the mezzanine, then meet up with my dad and brother back at Cobo. They were Car Guys and my brother ended up being an automotive engineer. Mom and I were more into clothing and fabric.

But we still enjoyed the auto show. When I was young, it was all beautiful shined up cars and gorgeous female models showing them off. I didn’t care whether they knew anything about the cars or not. I was just totally entranced by their beauty and fancy dresses.

The auto show was always in January until, hmmmm, I fergit when. It may or may not have been before covid when some “super-brain” decided it should be moved to the summer or maybe September. Those things (and maybe others) were tried and (hello) the auto show is now happening in January again. I could’ve told them that January was the best time for the auto show but nobody would’ve cared what I thought.

The GG and I didn’t go to the auto show this year but we have occasionally attended it over the years. It’s a lot easier to drive to Detroit from The Planet Ann Arbor than from Sault Ste. Siberia. The pics are from 2011, when we were checking out Subie Outbacks. So we parked atop Cobo Hall on a frigid January day.

I dunno what kind of car this is but there is actually a female model showing it off. That matches my childhood memories. The vee-hickle is probably in a junkyard now.

My own “model” here. I think I tried to interest him in this loverly blue Jeep Wrangler to replace the long-dead Indefatigable but he wasn’t really interested in another Wrangler by that time. I tried.

For whatever reason, the po-leese had a fancy display at this auto show.

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