'08 Rod & Custom Show Pics.

[Brock Samson]

I took 190 pics Fri. when it opened, I tried to get them before it got crowded,.. Hard to take decent pics when the cars are opened up though that allows a peak at the detailing inside... and some of these rides are simply large to fit in the pic - you have to back up 30 feet of so to get a profile shot. I've gone pretty much every year since 1968 when I was 11. It used to be the Grand National but that was moved south around 2000, still it's the highlight of winter for me.  So enjoy the show.  I'll be resizing and posting pics as time allows...
...& Some music for your enjoyment... 
http://youtube.com/watch?v=vI-z64G3tvU
               ME 262 by Blue oyster cult (I wanted to link to Dominace and Submission,but can't find it...) 

Dominace and submission lyrics...

Oh yeah

I spent ten years, half my life
Just getting ready, then it was time
Warpage in my figures, radios appear
Midnight was the barrier, back in 1963

Each night the covers were unfolded
Each night its susies turn to ride
While charles, the one they call her brother
Covers on his eyes
Murmurs in the background
It will be time

Oh yeah

Susan and her brother, charles the grinning boy
Put me in the backseat, and they took me for a ride
Yeah, the radio was on - cant you dig the locomotion
Kingdoms of the radio, 45 rpm
Too much revolution, then

Each night the covers were unfolded
Each night its susies turn to ride
While charles, the one they call her brother
Covers on his eyes
Murmurs in the background
It will be time

Its past midnight said charles the grinning boy
And looking at me greedily, said its 1964

In times square now people do the polka
Dominance....submission...radios appear
This new years eve was the final barrier
Dominance....submission...radios appear
We took you up and we put you in the back seat
Dominance....submission...radios appear
From year to year we looked out for the venture
Dominance....submission...radios appear
Dominance....submission

[Brock Samson]

no bitchin about the fords .ok?.. 

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[Brock Samson]

  don't ya just love  Racemaster slicks?..

[Brock Samson]

alot of these cars have been appearing at the show for nearly 50 years, and have been hot rods and kustoms for longer then that,.. they get repainted and redone alot, sometimes every year... over the years i've grown to recognise them,.. and these days i'm even recognising the owners... i spent probably half the time talking to owner/builders,.. well, actually i just try to shut up and listen... 
                                                 

[XS29J8]

alot of these cars have been appearing at the show for nearly 50 years, and have been hot rods and kustoms for longer then that,.. they get repainted and redone alot, sometimes every year... over the years i've grown to recognise them,.. and these days i'm even recognising the owners... i spent probably half the time talking to owner/builders,.. well, actually i just try to shut up and listen... 
                                                 having "renaming" troubles please stand by...   

Great pics, but I'd rather see your pics from 68-69-70-71

XS

[Brock Samson]

i didn't take pictures when i was 11, i think the first car show pics i took were in 1974 or so at the import car show, and those B&W pics are buried somewhere in the garage,..

[Hemidog]

very shiny! 

[Brock Samson]

There's a huge rift at the show between the big money guys (one of these cars cost approx 1.6 Mill.) and the rat rod or suede/rat rod guys, who are off in the wings out of the lime light... They have a series of buildings one of which had a faux drive-in movie set up, where they were playing old hot rod movies and a younger crowd was hanging out... that was new for the show, as were the restored old R/Vs and busses... so there's some hot new blood in the hobby which is good to see. 

these pics are most of the big money rides... My camara's battery failed at pic 190... 

[Brock Samson]

 I chatted abit with Darryel Starbird about what he could've done with todays modern electronics back in the '60s... He got this funny far off look in his eye,..  ah, the master's mind at work... 

[Brock Samson]

here's a plymouth... 

[Brock Samson]

I mentioned to a long time local builder, that I saw a proliferation of animal skin interiors this year, and he complained to me that because he used Alligator skins inside his 20 year ford project last year, several cars turned up this year with animal skin ints...  then we had a laugh about the tweed interiors in the '80s.. 

[SFRT]

ugh. geriatric jellybean fantasy cars. dude lets see some muscle cars and rat rods! hate that teal and lavender zz top looking shit. show some raw power!

[Brock Samson]

     There is a growing trend to suede finishes Frank,..  even the latest concept lambos sport suede and there's a factory caddy SUV on the show circuit in suede... so i predict next yr there will be suede jelly beans... 
(everyone's a critic..  ) I'm goin to the flea market frank I'll try 'n pick ya out an old suede coat o.k?..
Btw: it's supposed to be in the '60s today so i'm gonna cruise the runner..

[SFRT]

that green car needs a matching suede and chrome walker....

[Brock Samson]

Here Frank... lay off the coffee... 

http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,33511.0.html

[SFRT]

I like that black gtx.

[Magnumcharger]

Brock...I love all of those pictures!! Keep 'em coming...
Or better yet, post ALL of them on Flickr.com....and I'll grab ALL of them! He he he....

[Lowprofile]

Great Pics Brock! Thanks Bro.....love seeing the old Hot Rods/Show Cars..

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[Brock Samson]

original owner, who sold this, his first car,.. went out and found it bought it back, and redid the way he wanted to do in high school in the late 50s.. only had 50 miles on it, since he completed it a short time ago... probably my fav. car at the show...