Category: Featured Event

Featured event coverage

Chrome! Exhibit in Long Beach

Historical Society of Long Beach Presents: CHROME! Cruisin’ Clubs and Drag Strips The Historical Society of Long Beach came by our Sunday Morning get-together one week. Director Julie Bartolotto and Steffie Hands stopped by to tell us (Mercifuls Car Club)…

Christy Lee at the OPG Pontiac Show

Some Cool Poncho’s and Christy TOO! OPG started off their summer show series in May 2018 with the Buick Show. This past month was the All Pontiac Show. We rolled up to see the happenings. To a wonderful surprise they…

Optima Search For The Ultimate Street Car

Advance Auto Parts Announced as Presenting Sponsor for the 2018 OPTIMA® Search for the Ultimate Street Car Season Advance Auto Parts backs the OSUSC Series for the third year OPTIMA® Batteries, a global leader in high-performance automotive and marine batteries…

Behind the Scenes at Born Free

We get an opportunity to speak to Grant Peterson. Along with Mike Davis, the two started Born Free Motorcycle Show because there weren’t any events that catered to their passion of vintage motorcycles.

The 2018 Grand National Roadster Show

This is one of those DON’T MISS Shows. The Grand National Roadster Show is an entire weekend of Fuel Fed Fun. Friday set up day is probably the best day to go and see the cars rolling in and the…

18th Annual Cruisin’ For A Cure Show

The Save Your Life Car Show It seems like just yesterday when I went to my first Cruisin’ For A Cure Show back in 2002. There is quite the variety of events to celebrate cars in Southern California. From the…

The 2017 C/10 Club Toy Drive

What a great day at the Pomona Swap Meet. Several chapters of the C/10 Community came together to donate toys for the Spark of Love Toy Drive. As you can see they filled the biggest truck they had, a slammed…

Prestone Celebrates 90 Years

A Birthday Party At The Petersen Automotive Museum The name has been around for a long time. I never realized how long Prestone has been around. Since I owned Blacktop Depot – an automotive memorabilia store in Orange, CA –…

The Automotive Aftermarket

A SEMA 2017 Report Commentary: Tony Colombini, Photos: Blacktop Media Network Staff There was quite a bit of talk among the aisles of the 2017 SEMA Show regarding the future of the automobile industry. And no doubt plenty of those…