Showing posts with label Grand National Roadster Show 2010. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Grand National Roadster Show 2010. Show all posts

Thursday, June 2, 2011

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

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

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

For the gear head who has everything






Great American Race winners (91 and 97) a 1910 Selden and a 1920 Packard Indy Special were in the race car area of the Grand National Roadster show


These are both part of the Frank Currie collection, Currie is famous for gears and differentials http://www.currieenterprises.com/


















I haven't seen a cool scallop like this in a long time, I'm really impressed!




these rims, the red paint and matching red striping, contrasting the white walls and scallop


Mooneyes dragster (replica of the original that stays on display at the Garlits museum)


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.