Custom dye shines in the Southern California sun.
With gentle temperatures and lots of sunshine in the summer, Southern California is the beyond compare put to display and gawk cars. It might be one of the uncommon places on area where washing your motorcar won't automatically warrantly drizzle. Southern California is territory to dozens of vehivle shows, for custom, burning rod muscle and classic models.
Showcase of Kustoms
Motorama's Showcase of Kustoms, a Sept van pageant in Great Beach, California, is the authorized revival of a display established by the legendary Renegades Automobile Club in 1958. The club pioneered the vehivle customizing craze in Southern California, according to fanfare organizers. The Showcase of Kustoms features custom cars, baking rods and motorcycles inside the Stretched Beach Arena and away on the waterfront. Builders come from as far absent as Australia.
This machine expo early debuted in 1958 in the municipal auditorium, popularizing customs the means the State Roadster Appearance in Oakland premiered Boiling rods. "Kustoms" are personalized cars that "turn absent from the stupid figure of uniformity and conformity, seeking that personal locution of individuality," according to the act website.
Showcase of Kustoms
Ardent Entertainment LLC
16478 Beach Blvd. Suite 316
Westminster, CA 92683
714-846-7121
showcaseofkustoms.com
Coronado Speed Festival
The annual Coronado Speed Festival in delayed Sep coincides with Fleet Week in San Diego and was created to testimonial the military. It's a "premiere Engine sports advent," conducted by the drivers of "particular, vintage cars," according to organizers.
There are pursuit categories for cars as senile as 1952. Categories build in "sport and production cars, drum brakes," from 1952-1959, and "sport racing and formula cars" broken into three eras from 1962 to 1980. There are also racing categories for historic Trans-Am and historic NASCAR. General admission tickets are available for the weekend races and car show. Active duty military personnel and their immediate dependents are free, as of autumn 2010, too as children 12 and under.
The weekend show features a cruise through downtown Santa Maria, California, a blood drive, and a parade of cancer survivors. There's also a dinner and a dance at the Fairpark, featuring live music, a bar and a beef or chicken dinner for $30, as of autumn 2010. The final day of the car show gives auto enthusiasts an eye-full and ear-full of exhibiting dragsters and funny cars, and the scent of burning tires in the burnout competition.
619-858-1545
fleetweeksandiego.org
Cruzin' for Life
The Santa Maria Fairpark is the site for the annual Cruzin' for Life car show each year in September. The show is a benefit for the American Cancer Society and the local Marian Cancer Care Center. Proceeds also benefit Camp Reach for the Stars, and the California Survivor Scholarship Fund.Coronado Speed FestivalSan Diego Fleet Week Foundation5330 Napa St.San Diego, CA 92110 Admission for spectators is $5, with $5 for parking, as of 2010.
Cruizin' for Life
P.O. Box 7145
Santa Maria, CA 93456-7145
805-937-8008
cruzinforlife.net
