Pictures from the  2006 Western Nickel Tour in Auburn, CA, April 23-29. Click on a thumbnail to enlarge, use your "back" button to return to thumbnails.   Pictures by W. Sullivan. Contact webmaster if you want higher resolution versions of any of these images.  Please notify webmaster of any errors in captions, they are easily corrected.

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Rare '34 DeSoto airflow won Ladie's Choice award

This Model A drove from NM (1200 miles) on US 50, no problems.

Ben Garland offers a balky Model A a gentle shove.

1932 Packard drove in from NM

       Max Miller of Las Vegas enjoys a tour day.

Baumgarten Model A wagon drove in from Tehachapi, CA

Don and Diane Adams enjoying their first VMCCA tour with their yellow Model A

 

Garland's '32 Buick 86 is a VMCCA tour veteran

1919 Locomobile was huge and powerful

Franklin aired it out on the Gold Rush country hills.

Ed Towe (age 92) drove this '34 RHD Ford from Buenos Aires in the 60's

1926 Pierce Arrow 80 Roadster

1934 Hudson Coupe from Las Vegas, NV

1915 Studebaker Touring car

  

Archer's Model T wagon lost its brakes

1934 Dodge, driven here from Salt Lake City.

Tour cars gather at Sutter's Mill

1928 Chevrolet Coupe

'26 Chevrolet touring

1930 Whippet roadster was beautiful -- but won the hard luck award, water in the oil

Bette Ames relaxes in Berryhill's '31 Dodge sedan

'28 LaSalle ran as well as it looked

1911 Cadillac won Men's Choice.  It handled Auburn's hills easily

Tour cars in Grass Valley

1931 Buick 50 on its first VMCCA Tour

This amazing bridge was part of the tour

1918 Cadillac Touring

'33 Graham is rare and very well restored.

Flowers were everywhere!