| Car show season is in full swing right
now and there is either a "show" or "shows" every weekend around
here. I attended
two shows in the last two weeks and had a great time at both.
The first show on Saturday, May 20 was at Bob's
Big Boy in Calimesa and about 50 cars were there. I took pictures
while at the show but because the setting was the same, I'm not going to
be putting any pictures on here. Gary and I both took home a runner-up
trophy which was cool but the judging was being done by a guy that
doesn't get along with the Shifters Car Club so needless to say, we
didn't fare very well.
The last show I attended was on Saturday, May 27
and was held in Beaumont Ca; a neighboring town and only a couple of miles
away. The show was called The Cherry Fest Classic Car Show. The
"Cherry Fest" is the start of a week long event leading up to the annual
Cherry Festival but I didn't know if the car show would attract very many
cars because of the weather we had that day. This time of year
around So.Ca. has what is called "June Gloom" (even
though it's at the end of May) which means there are low clouds and heavy
fog in the morning hours and usually burns off by the afternoon. This
wasn't the case this time as the clouds were out almost all day and the temperature
was in the low 60's with the wind blowing. Two days before this the
temps were in the 90's and you could here the sound of AC units running
on most houses. As I'm writing this the day after the event, the sun is
out and it's a typical late spring day that will be in the mid 80's. You
just never know what kind of weather your going to have around this area
at this time of year.
The setting was in a nice park that had a few
trees (we didn't need them for shade that day) with over 80 cars in
attendance which was much more that I ever expected. There were some
very nice cars at this event and I parked next to Gary and Debbie and
Larry. If you entered your car, you received a T-shirt and a meal ticket
for lunch which was a choice of a hot dog or a burger. You also had a
choice of chips and drink with your lunch so you didn't go hungry. There
was also some live music being played and the band was pretty good. Once
our cars were entered and our raffle tickets were bought, it was time to
look at all the cars. There was a good
variety of cars there and I liked this one. Leather interior, rumble
seat and a small block Chevy with some old school fuel injection.
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