Jimmy DeFrank Picks Up the Wally at the NHRA Sonoma Nationals

Jimmy DeFrank had another impressive outing this past weekend at the NHRA Sonoma Nationals. Jimmy, our company's Chief Operations Officer, piloted his 1969 Chevy Camaro to victory in the Stock Eliminator category. It was his second NHRA national event victory of the season.

Along the way he faced some tough competition, including a final round against good racer and friend, Kyle Seipel. The California Car Cover team did a great job over the weekend and look to continue the success in a few weeks at the NHRA US Nationals in Indianapolis. Big thanks to all of the support from Red Line Oil and K&N Air Filters.

Hotchkis Suspension Open House and GM Car Show 2013

Our friends at Hotchkis Suspension in Santa Fe Springs held their annual open house and car show over the weekend. The show attracted about 100 local GM enthusiasts for a BBQ, prize raffle and shop tours. Here are some photos of the action.

The parking lot packed with Gen 5 Camaros

A local Impala club brought out a large group of late model Impala sedans.

Hotchkis tech talk and vehicle inspections

The event was an all-GM show, which attracted a lot of late model Chevy Camaro vehicles. Hotchkis makes a lot of suspension component kits for the Gen 5 Camaro so it was not a surprise to see so many of them in attendance.

In preparation for tech talk and raffles

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Thank you to Hotchkis for the hospitality and opening its doors to plenty of local automotive enthusiasts. Subscribe to our blog for more pics from automotive events around the country all summer long courtesy of California Car Cover.

2nd Annual Chevy Camaro Car Show at California Car Cover

Our 2nd Annual Camaro Car Show was this past Saturday at California Car Cover. The show attracted a nice mix of new and old Chevy Camaro vehicles from all over Southern California. A big thanks to everyone that made the drive out to our store and spent a few hours with us this weekend.

Yellow 1969 Camaro with black wheels

 The front lawn featured a few of the early risers who were at our store in Chatsworth bright and early. It was a nice group of first generation Chevy Camaro cars, plus one clean early 80's Camaro that joined the group. The colorful cars attracted a lot of attention from passersby.

Whether you preferred the 1969 Camaro or drive a 2013 model, our show had examples from every generation of Chevy Camaro. It was a great event for anyone that loves the Camaro. 

1969 Camaro and a 1973 Camaro

A few generation 5 Camaros all lined up.

1977 Chevy Camaro

ZL1 Convertible

 There was a number of Camaros from local club, SoCal Mayhem and the Ventura County Camaros, that had some serious performance upgrades and modifications.

First Gen and 5th Gen side by side.

Our friends from Dogtown Dogs drove up from LA and served specialty hot dogs all day.

Green Z28

 Out front of the store, we gave away door prizes and raffle prizes all day long. All attendees were entered into our door prize drawing and given a free raffle ticket. Extra raffle ticket sales were also sold with the proceeds from the day being donated to the American Red Cross.

Clean ZL1 track car with a number of performance modifications

 As usual, our car show attracted a crowd of amazing automobiles. We host a number of free events throughout the year. There is no charge to bring your car or attend one of our events. Our next event is our Summer Cruise Night which will be held on Wednesday, August 14th. That show is open to all makes and models of custom cars.

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Thank you to everyone that attended the show. The event could not happen without all the great sponsors who donated door prizes and raffle items. We had awesome donations from Metro Vac, XPEL, Race Ramps, Dash Designs, Pasttime Signs, Intro-Tech, Lloyd Mats and Super Car Collectibles.

 Our friends at Louver Art, Park N Place, Glass Master, Cal-West Radiators, Weathertech and Goboxes also donated some great door prizes for the show.