{"id":256,"date":"2018-12-16T18:41:52","date_gmt":"2018-12-16T18:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mustangirs.com\/blog\/?p=256"},"modified":"2018-12-16T18:41:56","modified_gmt":"2018-12-16T18:41:56","slug":"dove-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mustangirs.com\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/12\/16\/dove-creek\/","title":{"rendered":"Dove Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Since there isn\u2019t a lot happening in the car world during chilly December, especially\u00a0in freezing Utah, I thought I\u2019d spin a little yarn about our recent trip to DOVE CREEK,\u00a0CO. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, D.C. happens to be the PINTO BEAN CAPITAL OF THE WORLD (betcha
didn\u2019t know that, didja?) and it\u2019s just across the UT\/ CO border, about an hour south & east of Moab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019re helping a friend move into her new place, so it was a \u201cworking vacation.\u201d The\u00a0heart of D.C. is the DOVE CREEK SUPERETTE, where, as the song goes, “WE KEEP\u00a0OUR CHRISTMAS LIGHTS UP ON OUR FRONT PORCH ALL YEAR LOG.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Great, friendly people here. It\u2019s a deli, supermarket, cultural center, and who knows\u00a0what else. It\u2019s right next to the feed store, and not too far from the Post Office. This\u00a0was our third visit to town, and we already feel like we belong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately the nearest lumberyard is in Cortez, about 40 miles east, and we\u00a0made 3 trips there in a day and a half. Oh well, great scenery. If you love high altitude,\u00a0and wide open spaces, at 6,844 feet up you\u2019ll love this area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This part of the country is dominated by the Colorado River. It has cut thru the red\u00a0and white sand stone to create some truly stunning vistas. If you saw the Pixar\u00a0movie CARS–One, Two, or Three–starring car guy Paul Newman as Doc Hudson,\u00a0you\u2019ll recognize the mountains between Moab and D.C. as Radiator Springs\u00a0(radiators spring leaks, get it?). Supposedly John Lasseter\u2019s wife insisted he take\u00a0some time off with the family after doing the movie TOY STORY, so they rented a\u00a0motor home and toured the desert southwest. While John was supposedly relaxing\u00a0he cooked up the plot for CARS. The red rock scenery, the semi abandoned little\u00a0towns, and of course lottsa old cars, who could resist that ! John\u2019s dad managed a\u00a0Chevrolet parts department, back in the day, and John delivered parts to car shops\u00a0all around SoCal, so if the disease is heritable, he got it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the PIXAR artists began the CARS project, John wisely contacted Dave \u201cBig\u201d\u00a0Deal<\/a>. Dave is a car guy, BAJA record holder, author & artist, and had been bringing\u00a0cars to life thru cartoons for years. He spent 2 days with the PIXAR artists (it was\u00a0standing room only) showing them how to give two dimensional drawings of cars life\u00a0and personality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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They apparently learned a lot. Dave passed away in 2008 but his\u00a0influence lives on in his art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Moab red rock country<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Moab transformed into Radiator Springs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Any visit to this area must include a visit to RAY\u2019S TAVERN in Green River UT. Home\u00a0of killer burgers and way cold beer, it is the sacred ancestral home of the\u00a0SHITFERBRANZ RIVER EXPEDITIONS. If you\u2019ve never been down the Colorado in a\u00a0small boat, you just don\u2019t know what \u201cnear death\u201d really looks like. Our kinda guys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, stay tuned for our next adventure , which (we hope) will be the BARRETT\u00a0JACKSON auto auctions in Scottsdale, the second week of Jan. The prototype \u201868\u00a0Shelby known as the GREEN HORNET will be there, with Conelec fuel injection and\u00a0its original Independent Rear Suspension. The HORNET\u2019s sister LITTLE RED, a\u00a0\u201968 Shelby sporting a supercharged 427 stuffed under its hood will be the side\u00a0dish. Great cars ! We\u2019ll be there with our Ford\/Shelby friends. Lotsa fun, some\u00a0very tall tales, and some possibly even true!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Merry Christmas,
Duane<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since there isn\u2019t a lot happening in the car world during chilly December, especially\u00a0in freezing Utah, I thought I\u2019d spin a little yarn about our recent trip to DOVE CREEK,\u00a0CO. Now, D.C. happens to be the PINTO BEAN CAPITAL OF THE WORLD (betchadidn\u2019t know that, didja?) and it\u2019s just across the UT\/ CO border, about … Continue reading “Dove Creek”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8gW0j-48","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mustangirs.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mustangirs.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mustangirs.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mustangirs.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mustangirs.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mustangirs.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264,"href":"http:\/\/mustangirs.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mustangirs.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mustangirs.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mustangirs.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}