| It's car show time again!
One of the car shows that my wife and
I have been waiting for was in Redlands, Ca.
called the " Optimist Car Show" which was on Saturday, July
15. It's held in a nice large city park that
has lots of trees for shade which was a good thing because it was 110
degrees that day. Despite the very hot temps, there were hundreds of cars
there. It makes for a very nice setting once
everyone is all set up.
We arrived at about 6:40am (which is very early
for my wife) and the cars were already wrapped around three blocks
waiting to get in. The gates opened at 7:00am and who do you think was
first in line, my buddy, Larry. As we drove around to the end of the
line, I didn't see him at first but after we were inside, that's when I
found out he was at the head of the pack. You've got to get up pretty
early to beat Larry to a car show.
There were 111 different class's for cars to enter
into and I had more than once choice to choose from. My choices
were, "1932 - 1936 closed car" or" best street rod".
I choose 32 - 36 closed car as it was my first time there with my car
and I didn't know what to expect. Well there were a bunch of nice cars
there that covered most of the park except one area that had no shade
that was towards the middle of the park. In the past, this area would be
full of cars but not in this heat. The show
had lots of vendors for food and drinks (the drinks were being sold so
fast they couldn't keep'm
cold enough for all the thirsty people), car related stuff along with a
live band that was very good. One place that a lot of people gathered
was the beer garden for two reasons, beer (duh) and the other was
because there were water-misters. I have to say, those misters sure felt good in
the middle of the day. Oh, and did I mention there were Bud Girls there
too!! Here are a few pictures of just some
of the many cars that were at the show and starting it off is this clean 68
Camaro.
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