Category: Featured Event

Featured event coverage

The 2016 Whitewall Nationals

There was certainly a lot of hub bub going on about this show, both before and after the event. Let’s take it from the beginning as I see it. Last year there was a new show in town called the…

Drag Racing History Continues!

DRAG RACING HISTORY MADE TWICE DURING JULY 2016 Two days in July 2016 will go down as important mile stones in the history of European drag racing and the restoration of Europe’s first dragster, Sydney Allard’s 1961 Allard Chrysler owned by…

2016 Collector Car Appreciation Day

I have been celebrating National Collector Car Appreciation Day since it was first developed in 2010. This year Blacktop Magazine hosted the event at their headquarters in the Historic C.W. Moss Building in Old Towne Orange, California. The SEMA Action Network…

So Cal Cycle Show and Swap Meet

Summer came pretty quick. We still have a couple of projects to finish. Time to start hitting the So Cal Cycle Swap Meet at Veterans Stadium. Here’s their schedule for 2016 June 26, 2016 July 31, 2016 August 28, 2016…

Early Times Picnic

Tradition Lives Each year, the Early Times car club hosts a picnic in at a private park hidden behind a row of trees along side the Harbor Freeway in Southern California and flanked by industrial buildings and truck yards. It’s a place…

Rodders to the Rescue

Joe Porey and Clint Powell share a great little event in our nations Heartland. Well you can officially call this 2nd annual car show  one for the dogs. The 2nd annual “Rodders to the Rescue ” For the Heart Of Jackson…

Pie Festival

Blacktop Midwest Correspondent Clinton Powell shares this great little show: Paul Kruse orchestrates this awesome car show in the the little town of Gypsum Kansas. The town population is around four hundred people. You could have fooled me that day.…

Long Beach K9 Officers Benefit Show

The Long Beach Sultan’s do it again! There are certain shows in Southern California that are “must-see” events. Early in the show season the Long Beach Sultans host this annual show in a cool tree covered park behind a bustling…

Warbirds Show

Photos/Story by Clinton Powell – Watkins, Colorado Warbird, sounds like something from the SyFy Channel. It is a term used on the plains that fought in the sky’s during WW1 and WW2. This Warbird show has a twist. Cars from…

2014 Cruisin’ Nationals on BlacktopTV

Rolling to Santa Maria with the Mercifuls So Cal Spent the weekend celebrating the West Coast Kustoms’ Cruisin’ Nationals in Santa Maria, California. Be sure to subscribe to BlacktopTV on YouTube and get first hand news of new videos.