Slideshow: A Birth Day at the Antique Car Races

I was fortunate enough to have three things happen on my birthday this year:

An antique race car?

One, I got an awesome new camera. A Nikon D3100. I've been hemming and hawing about taking the plunge into the big camera, and my wife was lovely enough to just go out and get one.

Two, SOVREN (The Society of Vintage Racing Enthusiasts in the Northwest) held a weekend of racing at the Pacific Raceways about 45 minutes outside of Seattle.

Three, the weather was absolutely spectacular. Hands down the best day of the year here so far.

So we packed up the Big Mercedes and the kids and headed to the races. It was a terrific day of racing. The cars are antiques, which hurts to say because they are from around the time when I was born. And the racing is competitive but not fierce. The drivers have a range of daring, but most want to preserve their beautiful classics rather than drive the wheels off of them.

A great day, as you can see from the dozens of photos I snapped from all around the track.