One of my favorites and always a great time the RPM Nationals. This year’s show had the largest amount of participants I had ever seen. There was so much wonderful racing.

Saturday’s RPM Nationals show is so much more than just drag racing. OK is mostly drag racing but there is a car show, a swap meet, and an all-around fantastic time.

The RPM Nationals begins on Friday with tech and everybody setting up their camps/pits.

I got a ticket! Ok, a weird way to start it off but to get into the Outriders Picnic you need to get a ticket from someone in the Outriders Car Club.

Some Saturday fun at the second annual Grand National Truck Show.

An early 5 am start for this year’s Ventura Nationals. I get up early every year to get the show participants rolling into the show.

Friday morning I headed up to Ventura, CA to check out a couple of the open houses going on during the Ventura Nationals weekend.

Saturday’s fun was filled with some very cool cars. I headed over to the annual Main Street El Segundo Car Show, a wonderful event.

On Saturday, I headed to the Lions Automobilia Museum for Isky’s 103rd birthday celebration. On Wednesday, July 10th Ed turned 103. He is an icon in the automotive industry and still going strong.

Another fantastic LA Roadster Show has come and gone. It was a great time with some cool hot rods and great deals in the swapmeet area.

I headed to Roxanne’s Bar in Long Beach for the Nosed & Decked Chopped & Dropped car show on Saturday morning.

Saturday was one of my favorite shows each year, the Aces Hot Rod Resurrection put on by the Aces Car Club. This year’s show was the 20th and for the past few years, it has been Old World Village in Huntington Beach, CA.

One of my favorite buildings yearly is the Suede Palace at the Grand National Roadster Show. Traditional hot rods and customs are some of my favorite things in this car culture I love.

Now there aren’t just cool bright colors at the Mexican village there are cool colors on all the customs and hot rods at the show for the Grand National Roadster Show.

Well, it didn’t rain. Saturday was the Grand Cruise-In at the Grand National Roadster Show and for whatever reason the rain gods decided to let there not be rain.

My Grand National Roadster Show almost ever year starts off at the NHRA Museum for the GNRS press conference.

At this year’s Grand National Roadster Show there were some wonderful contenders for this year’s Slonaker Award but there can only be one winner. That would be a 1959 Chevrolet Impala Hardtop named “Bespoke”.

Sunday night while the rain fell outside, inside the main building at the Pomona Fairplex they crowned America’s Most Beautiful Roadster. This year’s winner is Beth Meyer’s fantastic 1932 Ford Phaeton built by Roy Brizio Street Rods. This was my pick too.

Saturday was the 3rd Annual Mooneyes New Year’s Party and it was a blast.

The Holiday Motor Excursion put on by the Horseless Carriage Club of SoCal and in its 67th year the show is always a blast.