Dad was at one of his breakfast meetings at work and this guy called Laurie said “Would your boys like a ride in a Mustang convertible?”   Dad said “yes”.   Yesterday Laurie pulled up our drive in his Mustang and drove us to the train station where there were more Mustangs.   We got to choose which one we wanted a ride in to Upper Hutt to where the American Car Day was being held.

First we went in a Mustang convertible that had its roof down but unfortunately Sean and I were sitting in the back and the wind was freezing!   It was really fun being able to ride in a beautiful old gold American Mustang (owned by Dale).   It was a lovely day, just the air was a bit chilly because we were behind the hills part of the way and it was early in the morning.   We stopped at Plimmerton and Mum stopped behind us as she was following in Dad’s V8 and Sean got some warmer clothes and I swopped with Dad into the front seat.   All the Mustangs we were with stopped at the Hayward’s and we stopped there too to have a look at some of the other cars.   Dad and Sean changed into a green cool looking Shelby Mustang (owned by Mike) for the rest of the trip.   I stayed in the same Mustang, in the front.

When we arrived at the American Car Day at Trentham race course there were TONS of cool old American cars.   There was this one with awesome reflecting blue flames in the sun on the paintwork.   There were these three dragsters on display and they were really cool and had big engines.   When they turned their engines on your our eardrums felt like they were going to explode the sound was so loud!   Mum let us have some American doughnuts from a little stand – tasty!   There was lawnmower racing which we didn’t get to see, but we saw a guy testing one out.   Mum said “Americans race anything that has wheels” when she saw the lawnmower racing sign and Dad just told me about the bathtub racing in Nanaimo Canada, that he saw when he was in the Navy a long time ago.   I saw this awesome red Mustang; it was long almost like a Cadillac and we saw a car with all these freaky paintings on it but they were really high detail and they were cool.

When Sean and I were on the bouncy castle, for some reason it started to collapse.   Sean freaked out and tripped over.   I managed to get out before it fully went down.   All of a sudden it went up again as some people around the back had fixed the problem.   Then me and Sean got off and went on the Ferris wheel, which was fun.   There were helicopter rides, but we didn’t have one.

 After a while we all started to get a bit tired, so we looked around for Laurie and when we found him we said “thanks” and then we went to our car and we got buckled up and everything and went home.   It was really great fun at the American Car Day.

PS - The Chevy Bel Air in the photo above was Mum's favourite car!