Hot Rods and Kustom Cars
For Part 3 of the 2016 Detroit Autorama coverage we finish up the basement of Cobo Center and head upstairs. While there are still some great hot rods and kustoms, there are some street rods and muscle cars too. Enjoy the variety and the Cavalcade of Custstoms and the Concept Cars displays.
For Part 2 of the 2016 Detroit Autorama photo coverage we continue the trek through the basement of Cobo Center. While cars and spectators converge on Detroit from around the globe to see who the next Ridler Award winner will be amongst the beautiful mechanical pieces of art upstairs, quite a few come to see what’s in the basement. What’s your favorite shot from this post? Comment below!
After my 2015 trip to the Detroit Autorama I knew that I had to come back again. It’s not cost effective, but the cars here and more importantly the people are well worth it! From the amazing pieces of automotive art competing for the Ridler Award, to the more my style traditional rods and customs found in the Cavalcade of Customs and in the basement this show has a bit of everything that I want to see. The people in attendance from around the world are the best part. So many people that I’ve met over the years showing cars, selling their art or just hanging out, it’s all about a good time with great people. We start the coverage in the basement this year, I hope you enjoy it, there’s over 600 2016 Detroit Autorama photos in total that I’ll be posting all week long.
While in Detroit for the Detroit Autorama this weekend we decided to that since we’d seen the show on Friday and the crowds on Saturday are incredible… let’s skip it and head to the Henry Ford Museum over in Dearborn, MI. The museum is outstanding, amazing, so so so so so cool. If you go to Detroit, you should plan to spend most of a day exploring the Henry Ford Museum. To hold you over until I start the Detroit Autorama coverage tomorrow, here are some photos from the Henry Ford.
Part 5 of the 2016 Starbird Car Show in Tulsa concludes with more from the Rockin’ Billy Bash in the “basement” of the Tulsa Expo Center. There were a bunch of great rides, great music, the pinstriper/artist area, a makeshift version of the Razor’s Edge Barber shop and more. I hope you’ve enjoyed the coverage, what’s your favorite image from this show?
Welcome to part 4 of the 2016 Kansas City World of Wheels coverage.
As you can see from the photos, the 2016 Kansas City World Of Wheels wasn’t exactly my favorite kind of show. Sure there were plenty of nice cars and bikes, but there were a lot of cars that were at more of the local cruise in level than I’d expect at an indoor show. Maybe I’m just being prejudiced, maybe I always expected more out of this show. Aside from the Cavalcade of Kustoms area that I showed you in part 2 the show was kind of lack luster with just a few bright shining spots.
My favorite part of the KC World of Wheels each year is by far the Jack Walker Cavalcade of Kustoms, in fact, car wise it’s 99% of the reason that I go. Some friends had their cars in the display this year which made it even better for me. I was able to stop and talk with a couple of them which made the whole trip worthwhile.
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Part 7 of the 2016 Grand National Roadster Show Coverage finishes up our tour of the Pomona Fairgrounds on Saturday. If you’ve never been to the Grand National Roadster Show, put it on your list. I can’t believe it took me that long to get out to it and I’m not sure how I’ll go about getting back each year but I definitely want to! Thanks again to Speedway for sponsoring this coverage, you folks make this coverage possible!
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Part 6 of the 2016 Grand National Roadster Show Coverage continues with Saturday at the show. The already huge GNRS got that much bigger with all of the “Drive In” cars added to the show. It was truly a feat to get through in a single day!
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Part 5 of the 2016 Grand National Roadster Show Coverage starts with us arriving Saturday morning. Again we entered through the NHRA museum, we were early and had to wait for the show to actually open. When it did we found a few hundred cars parked between the buildings.
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For part 4 of the Grand National Roadster Show coverage I’m continuing with Friday’s adventure. There are a TON of amazing cars left to see in this coverage, so many that we didn’t get to them all in 6 hours at the show on Friday. Later in the coverage we’ll get into the Suede Palace. That room was worth the entire trip, actually each of the buildings in the show was worth the trip by themselves. What’s your favorite car in this post?
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Shown above is my good friend Jeff Myer’s newest build. The 1957 Ford has been highly customized and I will be doing a full feature shoot and video feature on the 57 and a couple of other cars built by Jeff and his crew at Premier Body & Paint in Arkansas City, KS. More photos of the 57 below as well as a ton more photos from the 2016 Grand National Roadster Show.
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Part 2 of the 2016 Grand National Roadster Show (GNRS) coverage continues with the 1st building of the show that I went into. The first photo above is of Aquarius, by Rick Dore for James Hetfield, an incredibly cool ride and design. From that building we moved on to the next and the next all afternoon long. It’s an amazing show full of just about anything you could want to see with an engine in it.
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Finally! Finally, I got to attend the Grand National Roadster Show! The 67th Annual GNRS went down at the Pomona Fairplex in Pomona, CA January 29-31, 2016. We started the day by entering the show through the NHRA museum on the Fairgrounds, and what a way to start the event! So much amazing history in one building, and all of it just whets your appetite for what’s about to come for the rest of the weekend.
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For the 4th and final installment of the 2016 Starbird-Devlin Car Show For Charity coverage we finish up the show. I remember when I was a kid, the entire show was in just the last two rooms of the original Century II building. So much kool in that building both this weekend and over the years!
For part 3 of the 2016 Starbird-Devlin Show Coverage we continue through the center of the show. Starting below you see Troy Pate’s split window Vette, a gorgeous Mercury and then we start in on the Magnificent 7 cars. Enjoy!
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For the 2016 Starbird-Devlin Car Show For Charity I brought my 51 Ford for the first time. Picking it up from Jeff Myers at Premier Body & Paint in Arkansas City, KS and driving straight to the show for load in on Thursday. Seeing as the most I’d ever driven the ol’ girl was about 40 miles in a day at about 55mph, I was about to put the newly hooked up overdrive to the test. The old flathead was spinning fine and I made the trip from Ark City to Century II in Wichita in good time. I have some stuff to work out on wiring and the like and then the car is going to be pretty much done for a few months. There are some photos of it in this set of photo coverage.
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The 2016 Starbird-Devlin show went down the weekend of Jan. 15-17th in Wichita, KS at Century II. The 59th annual event marked the first year that I brought my 51 Ford, a work in progress, to the event. The show’s proceeds go to support a handful of local charities, more on that in the coming days. Enjoy the photos!
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For the final post of the 2016 Retro Rewind Dubuque coverage I went back through the show now that it was open and there were people around 😉 Some photos of the bands, more shots of the cars and bikes, people photos, awards photos and a couple of the pinup contest! Enjoy!
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