9/29/14 Rabbit Ranch

We headed south again today and stopped by the Rabbit Ranch.  This is an old service station that has memorabilia and old stuff with some dust on it.  We looked at the pictures, souvenirs, and the rabbits kept in cages.  The owner is the local notary so he was busy notarizing while we were there. He also has VW Rabbits set up in the ground like the Cadillac Ranch in Texas.

Our next stop was to visit  Debra's grandparents.   Deborah is the young woman we met at our hotel on day two.  Her grandpa Don has a big garage with a shop behind it and a very impressive man-cave in the basement filled with a lot of unusual stuff; a penny stamp machine, several old coke and Pepsi vending machines in working order, a functional bar, and a shuffle board table. He gave us a tour of his shop and showed us the vehicles he  presently owns; a '50 Studebaker wagon-2 door, a 350 Chevy with fuel injection , a '34 roadster with the same engine ,and  a '62 Corvette convertible that is all original with mechanical fuel injection.   It was so nice to talk with someone who knows so much about vintage cars and clearly appreciates them.

From there our next stop was Country Classic Cars.  It is 5 large warehouses full of cars of all types, including Fraizers, Packards, and the usual Ford, Chevy, Chrysler  models.  Some of them are priced very well but all are project cars. Nothing struck my fancy so back to Springfield and a Cozy Dog for lunch.

The Cozy Drive In is famous for corn dogs.  The original owner of  preferred a batter that would stick to a hot dog on a stick and cook quickly when deep fat fried.  Before this technique was perfected, corn dogs were baked for 15-20 minutes instead of 2 and a half minutes in the frier. They were pretty tasty! 

After lunch we visited Jefferson City, the capitol of Missouri, and toured the capitol building.  There is lots of marble everywhere in the building.  They are working to  remove paint to expose the old wallpaper under it, I don't think either one was attractive but they weren't finished either. The interior of the dome was beautiful!

Capitol dome

We finished up the day at D'arcis Pint, a recommendation from Debra's grandparents , I had a horseshoe with lots of cheese sauce.  I hope my cholesterol pills are still working. Maybe I should have requested a prescription for the industrial strength tabs before I left Portland.  Tomorrow we get the T-Bird back and then we will be making a quick trip to Albuquerque.