Pin Up Dolls & Classic Cars: A COVID Love Story

Do you appreciate stuff more now that the worst of COVID is over? Pretty things like the buffed painted body of a car, the chrome polished into mirrors reflecting light? Or maybe friends and lovers that you’re afraid might get sick again? The trauma of the pandemic still sinks in.

Pacific Northwest summers provide a beautiful snapshot of the “Good Ol’ Days” where folks moved about freely showing off their cars and dresses. Pin Up clubs fit into auto shows like hands into elegant lace dress gloves smoothing over a quarter panel, modeling for photos. Dolls invent Pin Up characters, glamming up to win a tiara, crushing the competition. Gearheads asked dates to go to the movies, not thinking love could disappear so fast.

Self-destruction and supposed preservation were in full swing when it was so easy to have fun, going to the club, ball game or parties at friend’s houses. But when the lockdown began, and family started dying the prospect of losing everything changed us.