Just A Car Guy

Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Under cover... just waiting for a car show

This just makes me curious... rat rod? or Roth creation?

I sometimes can tell what the car under the cover is, but these have me stumped... I can tell it's a Chevy by the back rim... even probably a Camaro

'79 Trans Am?

GN?

'58 Fury?

Ford Victoria?

Also see: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2007/07/no-idea-why-this-photographer-likes.html#links

One owner '59 Studebaker Lark, with a great story

This gets some parade time, and you might see it in the 4th of July Coronado parade... and here's the story...

This was bought for her when she was 15 by this woman's mom, and her mom covered the gas, and insurance.

Why? Her mom was to nervous to drive, and made the deal with her daughter that in return for a new car, the daughter would chauffer her mom anywhere, anytime. In the words of the owner (wish I remembered her name) her mom also didn't want to drive "because it would interfere with her hobby" ..... .... a bourbon and water each night. That just makes me laugh, buying your kid a car, so they can drive to school etc etc, and in return your kid drives you at the drop of a hat anywhere anytime. Now that is cool!

Oh yeah... her son drove it to prom, and used it to get up to LA to see his girlfriend... right up until it died in the middle lane while he was driving at 65mph. That's when her sone stopped borrowing the car... it doesn't have hazard lights.

Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Qualcomm Stadium events... no bike show and drag race event like last spring...

http://www.sandiego.gov/qualcomm/pdf/calendar.pdf

here was last years
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2007/04/drag-racing-and-car-show-at-qualcomm.html#links

This years was **Cancelled**Cancelled**Cancelled** Thunder in Mission Valley
Qualcomm Stadium San Diego CANCELLED, CA April 2008
Via : http://www.cycleprousa.com/shows.cfm

Want to get your car into movies, tv shows, or commercials? Me too!

http://homepage.mac.com/aconstantchange/PhotoAlbum1.html

is a website I read about in the April 2008 Musclecar Enthusiast magazine.
Marcelo Sotenburg owns Constant Change Pictue vehicles, his past clients have been (among others) Pepsi, Taco Bell, Nationwide Insurance, and AARP

And you can see what cars are in his gallery to work with, and #23 isn't a 72.... not even close
about 1/2 of the gallery are Camaros and Mustangs. So if you've got an AMX, GSX, Superbird, Talledega, Cyclone, Firebird Trans Am, Barracuda... etc etc you're probably going to get his attention... I'll be looking into this more later.

Car shows in San Diego to be added to my calendar

I still have more car shows to add to my calendar,

The Vintage T-bird Convention
The Porche Club Concours
Gillespie Field, El CajonMilitary Vehicles, Warbirds, and Collector cars
OverDrive Hot Rod News Annual Tech Fair & Chili Cook-off
Santee rat rod car show (wasn't held last year)
The Clairemont Neighborhood Park car show
Allied Gardens Cinco De Mayo car show
Army Navy Academy car show

Prototype AC Cobra

http://www.socalsaac.org/Picasa%20Web%20Exports/Petersen/index.html

WOW, private collection of race cars gallery

http://www.socalsaac.org/Picasa%20Web%20Exports/Malloy%20tour/index.html

More updates to the Car show calendar

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/02/2008-san-diego-car-show-season.html#links for the full calendar: these are the updates...

April 26 Claremont Cruisers,
5pm First Night
4821 Clairemont Drive http://www.cncsd.org/

May 24 American Heritage Car Show,
Grape Day Park, Escondido, 9am
321 N Broadway
info 760-743-8207

And I checked with Dave and Busters Special Events, they aren't having the "Curves are for Cars" Scoliosis awareness raising car show back this year. ... I was looking forward to it, as it was the only Mission Valley car show last year, and an original Reo was there http://www.sdscoliosis.com/pb/wp_41aad059.html?0.0030737249206271855

Cool cars that are just hanging around in a San Diego neighborhood. I bet yours has some too. pt 2

Compare this to the brown work truck Ranchero I posted yesterday... yikes amount of work needed here to get this one into that brown ones condition.

Slowly being grown over, this yellow panel delivery is sitting kinda high, might be 4x4?

The patina on this Buick is so striking, I'm going to use it for my banner.

Color coded front bumper and rims makes for a good look here, shows someone went the extra mile on the looks of this, and the hood scoop on the 351 looks great

Rare to see an old Dodge truck, those headlight bezels though... I don't like them.

how this has escaped from being made into a lowrider, here in San Diego it's whole life... amazing. Still has original hubcaps!

I had never noticed a truck with 396 badges before!

The best looking tail design I've ever noticed on a Cadillac, just my opinion, and not a popular one I suppose, but this is one I've never noticed before. Sure beats the spare tire shaped trunk lids style.

Still in service at my closest municiple airport, a 60's Ford dualie fuel truck

How about the front mounted exhuast? Kinda cool to see functional design elements. The outside tire is smaller than the inside tire... I'd like to hear the explanation, must be due to the weight of the payload of fuel. The outside tires were worse than bald though, the steel belts were showing real badly on the hanger side.

Visible from Aero Drive, this is on the S.W. corner of Montgomery field hangers

Monday, March 03, 2008

the flyer for the annual January LaJolla car show

http://www.lajollabythesea.com/files/328.pdf

Updated car show calendar

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/02/2008-san-diego-car-show-season.html#links for the full calendar, here are the new additions:

March 11,
Only Yesterday http://www.oldautos.com/ is going to be the car club meeting location for the Pontiac club
"The SDPOCI’s Monthly Meeting:
Only Yesteryear Classic Autos
10343 Roselle St. San Diego
Tuesday 3/11/08 6:00 pm
Select here for Map to Only Yesteryear "

April 27
10:30 to 2:00
DMac's 2nd annual BBQ customer appreciation day http://members.cox.net/dmacauto/
1554 East Grand Ave. Suite: A, Escondido
(Corner of Grand Ave & Rose, behind the East Valley Home Depot)

D. MAC'S AUTOMOTIVE REPAIR
For ALL your Automotive & Classic Car Restoration Needs

http://www.sdpoci.com/calendar.htm

Want to know what your car will look like with different rims?

Thanks to the San Diego chapter of the Pontiac Oakland club
If you are buying new rims for your ride and are wondering what they will look like, go here.
NewstalgiaWheels.com
Go to the Wheel Visualization tab on the right.
From here you can choose your car, and then swap wheels of different manufacturers, styles, sizes and different tire size

via http://www.sdpoci.com/newsletter.htm