The petersen automotive museum

Sunday Drive to the Petersen

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 show. From laid-out Impala’s to radically styled Schwinn’s the display is a spectacle of metalflake, […]

CarCapsule Inflatable Paint Station

PaintProStation Professional-Grade Mobile 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 provides ample space and high-efficiency air movement to ensure a professional grade outcome. The PaintProStation […]

Brea Holiday Car Show 2024

The 2024 Brea Holiday Car Show

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 on display to support the CHiP’s For Kids Toy Drive from the California Highway Patrol.Produced […]

Flying Deuces Cruisin La Verne Holiday Car Show 2024

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 rod throw away from the famed Pomona Dragstrip are filled with brilliant chrome, shiny paint […]

Custom Celebration at Lions Automobilia Foundation Museum

Custom Celebration

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 Hot Rod a Custom? Is a Race Car a Custom? After joining the Mercifuls So […]

Mustang 60 Years Donald Farr a Blacktop Book Review

Ford Mustang 60 Years

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’” Mustang. And now I roll a ’56 Fairlane that sports a 390cid with GT heads […]

1962 Chevy Impala SS Convertible

1962 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 completely at their shop in Orange, California. From Fab, to paint, to upholstery the car […]