Well, its that time of year again-or almost.  This weekend, the first offical car show in my area happened.  This is the big "show car" car show of the year that we have-the Eugene Autorama.  This show has the high dollar cars that don't go to the local Show-N-Shines (where I display my car).  So, I took my camara along and thought I would share some of the highlights with you guys.

First off, this is a 1969 Chevrolet Camaro Z-28/RS.  I thought this was the nicest car at the show (but as you guys know, I love '69 Camaro's).  This is basically my dream show car.  It is a '69 Camaro with the Z-28 performance package.  That means is has a 302 high-output V8 engine and a 4-speed transmission.  It also has the popular Rallly Sport package, which is why it has those "slit" hide-away lights (Z-28/RS cars are very desirable).  Also, this car has a deluxe interior and is painted in Hugger Orange, which is basically the most popular color today for '69 Camaro.  All in all, this was an awesome car!


This is a 1970 Ford Mustang Boss 302 (for all you Mustang guys).  Unfortunately, I'm not a Mustang expert so I can't tell you much about this car.  I know that it was all original.  It was equiped with a 302 V8 engine and a 4-speed manual transmission.


This is a beautiful 1959 Chevrolet Corvette.  This was the nicest Corvette at the show.  There isn't much I can say about it, but it was a beautiful car.


This is a hot rodded 1933 Ford Roadster.  Although this is not my kind of car, it was deffinately cool looking.  I really loved the paint job, the purple body and orange flames really looked good together.


Here is a hot rodded 1934 Ford 3-Window Coupe.  As far as hot rods go, this was probably my favorite at the show.  Although I'm not a huge fan of '30s hot rods, I have always loved the Ford 3-Window Coupe and this car was very nicely done.  I was very impressed.


Well, thanks for looking.  Unfortunately, some of the images are a little dark-its a new camara and doesn't really like the indoors that much it doesn't seem.  Anyway, these were my 5 favorite photos from the show (I had a couple more I wanted to post but I am pushing the allotted file size as it is-basically I didn't post a photo of an awesome '67 Shelby GT500).  Anyway, if you guys would like to see a few more photos, I would be glad to post them.  In any case, thanks for looking.  

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I'll bet that was a sweet car, especially with that DZ302 motor.  Those were really fast.  His '69 Camaro must have been a Z-28 because that was the only way to get that 302 motor.  But, I would imagine that when it was replaced with the 350 it was still fast.  Although it probably didn't rev up as high or acclerate as fast, it would have had a lot more torque.  My '69 has a 350 in it right now and it's pretty quick as it is.

Nice one Richie. I've never felt the same way about cars as I do about aircraft but I can understand the attraction. For someone who likes to see things retored as authentically as possible, it seems strange that I rather like those old hotrods. Maybe my age has something to do with it. They remind me of the films I used to see in my youth, my impression of what it was like for young people like me in America at the time. We never went in for it in the same way in my part of the world although from what I've seen at the local car show they're quite popular now.

Drool... slobber... that's about 1/4 of my Dream Fleet, right there (although I'd def. take the 3-window Ford over the ragtop- not crazy about purple cars).

Very Nice Richie
Here is a shot of my 1972 Nove SS!
Should have never sold it!      



Dave