I just went through the Grand National Roadster Show, it's great! It's a lot like a Good Guys show crossed with SEMA

A few cars you don't want to miss;
the '36 Auburn of James Hetfield, the Moonliner and Mooneyes Dragster, the triple nickel 555, Boyd's French Connection, Mr Norm's Demon (old and new) plus the 3 other new Mr Norms retro vehicles, Poteets Miller hauler Special, Hollywood Hot Rods Platinum Bomb and I think 2 other HHR cars, the 1910 Selden ( winner of the 1998 Great American Race, the 1920 Packard Indy car (winner of the 1991 Great American Race) a Reventlow Scarab, the Bartoletti Grand Prix race car transporter, the Glass Slipper, 3 Bean Bandit race cars, El Cid.. the dragster AC Cobra, the Atomic Punk bubble top Roth tribute, and others that I can't recall right now.

Lots of pinstripers, about a dozen, lots of artists with paintings and sculptures to sell, about 3 dozen... so bring money. Prices on the vendor stuff like beer, popcorn and kettle corn, soft serve etc is overpriced like a county fair, like that's not unexpected at anything we go to anymore. I'll happily leave a venue instead of wasting money a minute away from real prices.

This is a shot fromt he Bldg 3 hall of magazine cover cars, in this collection are the Pete and Jake 4 roadsters, the Kookie T replica of Norm Grabowski 's, the Mullen Roadster, and about 2 dozen more
You will want to park in the Red (far right area) off McKinley Ave... it's cheaper than the $25 I paid for the Preferred Parking (I was fed up with trying to find the place and running late)

To get there from South of LA or East of Pomona, I used the 15 North to the 1o West, get off at the Fairplex exit, head north from the 10 for about a mile, it stops at a light on the intersection with McKinley, head East (right) for about 3 miles or so, past many numbered gates

Among the "Don't Miss" attractions at the Grand National Roadster show, Atomic Punk

For more on the Atomic Punk, a cool video of it's creation http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/10/wow-how-atomic-punk-was-built-trunk-of.html

Looks like El Mirage in 1948, the photos weren't labeled, but do we really care?

These weren't found together, just on the same webpage. I don't know if the website guy at 5window.tumbler.com knew they were from El Mirage, or what.

Above is one I hadn't posted before from Chris at http://speedseekers.blogspot.com/ notice it's a cold day coat

I think the above is Bonneville by looking at the mountain in the background, unless it's the view to the north of El Mirage

above photo from http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=5

unless you are looking at the two I've credited from http://speedseekers.blogspot.com/ and the HAMB http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=5 the rest are all from http://5window.tumblr.com/

See all the color 1947 and 1948 El Mirage photos at once by clicking on http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/El%20Mirage

back to 1948 and El Mirage! I'm excited as hell to find and post more color photos of 1948 El Mirage of the same car and place, based on the below

Above is the new one and is the same setting as the bottom one that I found at http://speedseekers.blogspot.com/ and is 1947 El Mirage

Above is the new one and is the same setting as the bottom one that I found at http://www.scta-bni.org/EM_1948_photos.htm

Same car, different outfits, so it's probably not at the same meet (time) the below was found
at http://www.scta-bni.org/EM_1948_photos.htm and I posted it

I posted both of the bottom photos 2 months ago, http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/02/on-lake-in-48-oh-wonder-and-amazement.html but just found the top photos at http://5window.tumblr.com/

A variety of cool cars and stuff at the Grand National Roadster Show

It's probably never going to happen again that 2 Kaiser Darrin cars are sitting side by side. Probably hasn't happened since the last Darrin left the dealership lot.

A Westergard customized 32 roadster was found and they tried to sell it on Ebay, reserve not met at $72k

Harry Westergard modified cowl and Auburn dash. Cowl mods are from a 1937 Cadillac LaSalle All work done in lead. License plate was recessed. Has a 1946 ford Flathead. Via: http://autoculture.org/?p=443

the USA At Last hot rod from "Mr Hobbs Takes a Vacation"

Anyone know what the story is about this roadster?

1925 type 22 Bugatti pulled out of a lake

Above via: http://www.automotto.org/entry/lake-maggiore-bugatti-brescia-up-for-the-auction/

http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/pubweb/publicSite.r?sContinent=EUR&screen=lotdetailsNoFlash&iSaleItemNo=4469309&iSaleNo=18191&iSaleSectionNo=2#

Via: http://www.dinosaursandrobots.com/2010/01/underwater-bugatti-exhumed.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+DinosaursAndRobots+(Dinosaurs+and+Robots)

From http://hotvvheels.tumblr.com/

In the case of non-payment of the duties, the car had to be destroyed and the simplest way to do so was to tip it into the nearby lake. The lakebed depth was 53 metres.

It remained there, undiscovered, until 18th August 1967 when diver Ugo Pillon located the mythical Bugatti, which was lying on its left side, partly buried in the mud. Pillon had been searching for it for some time and after its rediscovery the car became a popular target members of the local sub aqua club. On 12th July 2009, after a 73-year sojourn in Lake Maggiore, the Bugatti was finally rescued from the lake