5th annual Surf City Garage car show

the above station wagon I've posted before, but the 50's collection that it carries still stuns me

above, a new license plate painted like a 60's in colors, but it doesn't have the same format as a 60's California plate, 3 letters and then 3 numbers

pretty cool little car ornament!

more 8 tracks than I've seen in one place in all the car shows I've been to for years

above, best car call board I've seen in a while, and the bottom round piece is the right size to fill the area of the rim behind it

above, the Holden station wagon that was at SEMA last year http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2013/04/not-camaro-its-holden.html

above, far out custom.... that might have been a Chevy truck, but, really... who the hell knows

above, the Cougar I posted from the Edelbrock show in May http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2013/05/big-70s-cars-big-scoops-ltd-with-429.html

in the back of a Skyliner

also was at the Edlebrock show in May http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2013/05/cool-1930s-or-40s-gmc-pickup-with-front.html

old cool can with a cork wrapper

Motion Performance back in the day

I'm guessing on this last one

all found on http://stiffspeed.tumblr.com

above found on http://mostuffsthlm.tumblr.com/

Optima Battery Faceoff Challenge completed at Road America, winner Bret Voelkel with Factory Five '33 Ford, and 4 invitations announced for Optima Street Car Invitational in November the day after SEMA

above photo of the 2400 pound, 630 Hp '33 Ford made by Factory Five, owned by the Ride Tech owner, from my coverage of this springs race in Irvine, full gallery at http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-variety-of-cars-at-2013-run-to-cost.html

2400 pounds, 630 Hp

1933 Factory Five Ford (Above),
 1964 Chevy Corvette,

2013 Nissan GTR,

1963 Pontiac Le Mans

 and 1981 Pontiac Trans Am

won entries to the 2013 OPTIMA Ultimate Street Car Invitational. Above 4 images from Pro.touring.com newsletter

Full gallery at http://bangshift.com/gallery/optima-faceoff-at-road-america-2013.html?pid=150440 who covers cool races like this

Think about watching the kick ass cars live, it's possible, and you can bet the best race will be the Optima Street Car Invitational in November just outside Las Vegas on the Saturday after SEMA

The Last American Hero, starring a young Jeff Bridges in a 1973 movie about running moonshine, driving a fastback Mustang GT, and getting into NASCAR... great opening scene, and dirt road car chase

part one above, go to youtube for the part 2, but be sure to check out the paint on the race cars at minute 55

Besides Jeff Bridges, the other actors you might enjoy seeing are Ned Beatty and Gary Busey before he was full looney tunes... you'll recognize at least 4 other actors, Ed Lauter, William Smith,

This movie is the bio of Junior Johnson, and he is the Tech Advisor and consultant of course


The movie depicts Junior's father as being arrested for producing moonshine. In reality, it was Junior himself that was arrested and sentenced. In 1956, federal tax agents found Johnson working at his father's moonshine still in Wilkes County; they arrested him. Many local residents believed the raid was done in revenge for the agent's inability to catch Johnson delivering moonshine on local highways; this is depicted in the movie when we see the local law enforcement busting up his father's still. Junior Johnson was convicted of moon-shining and was sent to prison in Chillicothe, Ohio. He served 11 months of a two-year sentence.

anyone recognize the rim? the movie is 1972-73 production, and this is probably a local racer, but I can't remember ever seeing a rim like this