RAW METAL

Raw Metal at GNRS with Pinky

A Conversation About The Rising Cost of Paint at The 75th Grand National Roadster Show Blinded By The Raw Metal Beauties on Display Pinky and I were running through the 75th running of the Grand National Roadster Show. Each of…

A Collection of American Classics

With a History of the Tail Fin Design On this Sunday Drive with the Mercifuls we land at a private collection of American Classics. If hooded headlights and finned tail lights are your thing, then this gallery is for you!…

Newport Beach Classic Car Show

Newport Beach Classic Car Show

Newport Beach in October is usually pretty quiet. The cold dreary weather doesn’t make for great beach going. Especially when you are right on the sand at the Balboa Pier just a block away from the famed Balboa Fun Zone.…

Sunday Drive to the Petersen

The petersen automotive museum

Today we take a drive over to the Petersen Automobile Museum. Here are several of the exhibits ending with a really creative installation. We start off with “Best in Low” an exhibit of legendary lowrider icons of the street and…

PaintProStation Professional-Grade Mobile Inflatable Paint Station

CarCapsule Inflatable Paint Station

CarCapsule USA, a manufacturer of inflatable premium vehicle storage products for the past twenty-plus years, has entered a new phase in vehicle preservation products with the introduction of the inflatable PaintProStation, a 26’x14’x10′ professional-grade mobile inflatable paint station. The PaintProStation…

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Recently the C/10 Club and Friends offered their annual Holiday Toy Drive at the Pomona Swap Meet benefitting the Long Beach Fire Department’s Spark of Love campaign. We were there to capture all the trucks and their generous donations!

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…