The 2024 Brea Holiday Car Show

Brea Holiday Car Show 2024

The annual Brea Holiday Car Show fills the streets of downtown Brea California with a whole variety of cars from late model muscle to early tin. This year the show was held on Sunday December 8th with nearly 400 cars…

Cruisin La Verne Holiday Car Show 2024

Flying Deuces Cruisin La Verne Holiday Car Show 2024

The usually quiet city of La Verne is overrun again by hot rod holligans and custom car mischief makers as Flying Deuces prepares another car show of classics and contemporaries alike. The streets of downtown La Verne, just a connecting…

The Last Mooneyes Party at Irwindale

Last Mooneyes Party at Irwindale

A legacy ends. Since 2006 Mooneyes has been hosting their X-mas Show and Drags at Irwindale Speedway (including three years as a New Years Show when the date changed to January) What makes this show really awesome is the whole…

Custom Celebration

Custom Celebration at Lions Automobilia Foundation Museum

An event hosted by the Lions Automobilia Foundation & Museum and presented by Mercifuls So Cal and Cambra Speed Shop. “What Is A Custom?” The term Custom Cars conjure up so many descriptions. Is a Lowrider a Custom? Is a…

Ford Mustang 60 Years

Mustang 60 Years Donald Farr a Blacktop Book Review

A Blacktop Book Review I had a Mustang. I imagine many of you have had one too. Or two. Actually, I had a couple of Mustangs in my lifetime. My wife had a Mustang. A green on green “Charlies Angels’”…

1962 Impala SS Convertible

1962 Chevy Impala SS Convertible

A Blacktop Motor Minute At the recent SEMA Show we ran into our friend Paul Bosserman at local Old Anvil Speedshop who has their most recent build showcased in the central lobby! This is the first car Old Anvil built…

Custom Autosound’s NEW USA-850 Radio

Custom Autosound's NEW USA 850 Radio

A 2024 SEMA Show Sneak Peek The USA-850 DigaDial™ virtual screen radio allows the user a choice of 4 distinct and one-of-a-kind displays. Choose the classic 60’s analog setting and watch as the red needle glides across the dial to…

The Last Cruise

The last cruise at the 2024 Cruisin For A Cure

At the 25th Cruisin’ For A Cure It’s been a long run. Debbie Baker and her crew of volunteers have hosted this important event. An event that can easily say they have saved nearly 1000 men’s lives. It all started…

The 2024 SEMA Show Review

The 2024 SEMA Show

Today I present my two days at the 2024 SEMA Show. I went to the SEMA Show to support SEMA Cares a charitable arm of the SEMA Organization which I am a committee member. SEMA Cares is a fundraiser for…

When A Firebird Inspires A Daughter

2002 Pontiac Firebird WS6

A Father’s Passion Is Shared Bob Giles is an F-Body* fanatic. Enthusiast. Owner. He has owned 7 F-Bodies in his lifetime. His father was a big influence on his love of cars. Like many of us, who had someone in…

Father-Son Nova

Father and son 1966 Chevy II Nova

A Blacktop Motor Minute Gary and Cody Kinion’s 1966 Chevy II Nova Gary shares the story of how his father bought this “goldish” colored 283 Nova for him in 1974. For years it sat on the side yard as he…

PORSCHE OUTLAWS

Porsche Outlaws

Stuttgart Hot Rods by Michael Alan Ross A Blacktop Book Review While enjoying this book, I got to pondering a few things. At the Laguna College of Art and Design, like at pretty much EVERY Art School, you are taught…