Who says Vegas marriages don't last?

Ours has outlived the Stardust. That's its dust you're looking at.

Today, my wife and I celebrate our 10th wedding anniversary. Woo-hoo! And while that's certainly a great thing, it's sad to think about how much of the cool old Las Vegas has been demolished in those 10 years.

The Stardust, where we spent a day or two. (We also stayed at The Flamingo, which is still with us.)

The Desert Inn.

The New Frontier.

The Aladdin.

And God knows how many others. The Sands was a vacant lot when we arrived.

I always thought it'd be cool to go back for our 10th. But maybe it's better to remember it the way it was back in '98 — when only SOME of the cool stuff was gone.

By the way, we got married at 6pm on Monday, the 23rd at The Graceland Wedding Chapel. Jennifer was escorted down the aisle by a chunky Elvis singing "Love Me Tender." We then rereated to a wonderful restaurant beside Caesar's Palace, where our friend Beth drank too much wine. We did the whole garter/bouquet thing near the entrance to Caesar's — with Japanese tourists videotaping it all.

It was a great day.

The Mona Lisa's Got Nothing On This.

The Santa Fe Super Chief. One of the most beautiful things mankind ever created, right up there with The Beach Boys' PET SOUNDS, The VW Beetle and Rat Fink.

The latest on my hot rod.

Checked my driveway this morning, and there's still not a hot rod parked in it. Damn.

But over the weekend, I got the latest issue of RODDER'S JOURNAL (not so much a magazine as a really beautiful coffee table book that comes out four times a year), and it has a great, in-depth article on Bob Tindle's Orange Crate.

It's a fabulous example of a '32 Ford sedan, a bitchin' drag car and a real icon of my youth. I built the Revell model (and gunked it up with so much Testors glue the body didn't lift up right) and stared at its photo in hot rod mags. From what I've gathered talking to other hot rod nuts, I was not alone.

According to RJ, the Orange Crate's still out there, in nice unrestored condition. In fact, it's been seen at a number of car shows, and was selected as one of “The 75 Most Significant ’32 Ford Hot Rods."

It's weird to think that some of these cars can be found in garages and barns all across America, just sitting. What else is out there? And more important, can I have it?