On the Road with Tony DeFrank. Follow along with California Car Cover's Executive Director, Tony DeFrank, as he travels the country attending car shows from coast to coast. While not on the road, Tony will share photos from catalog photo shoots, behind the scenes news and notes, product reviews and much more right here on the official blog of California Car Cover.
This past weekend, the California Car Cover Crew headed down the 5 freeway for our annual stop at the Del Mar Fairgrounds. We always look forward to this weekend in sunny San Diego County. The Goodguys Meguiar's Del Mar Nationals car show attracts over 2,000 customs, classics and hot rods to the fairgrounds for three days of cruising, showing and auto-crossing. We had a great time catching up with our customers from the local area. Here are some photos from our weekend in Del Mar.
The California Car Cover pop-up shop showcases not just our covers, but plenty of other collectibles and car care products.
1954 Chevrolet
1947 Chevy Woodie Wagon with a matching trailer
The cacklefest always attracts a crowd of people to watch some nostalgia dragsters fired up.
Saturday features special parking areas for a variety of vehicle styles. This is a photo of the '32 parking.
The main drag at the Del Mar Fairgrounds is meant for cruising. All day Saturday you would find customs and classics driving around the fairgrounds.
Sunday morning, the marque award winners are gathered around the main fountain outside of the horse track. Some of the finest cars from the show were all on display.
Sunday afternoon, all award winners are brought in front of the crowd to collect their awards from the weekend.
This past weekend the California Car Cover Crew was at the 18th Annual Goodguys PPG Nationals in Columbus, Ohio. The show is the marque event for the Goodguys Rod & Custom Association. It attracts over 5,000 hot rods and muscle cars to the Ohio State Fairgrounds for a three day event featuring a car show, auto cross, vendor midway, swap meet and much more.
This year's car show did feature another thing: rain. Rain put a damper on the festivities on Friday and Sunday, but we still had a great time in Ohio. In between the showers, we had a few chances to check out some classics.
The cars were rolling in early on Friday morning.
Nice Chevy Nova at the Billet Specialties booth.
Even though the clouds were out on Friday, there were still a lot of cars on display at the show.
Inside the main building were the finalists for Street Rod of the Year and Street Machine of the Year. The awards were given out on Saturday night, but it was a nice chance to get a good look at all of the contenders.
This was one impressive Chevy.
Great looking Chevy Corvette from the Roadster Shop.
The 2015-16 Goodguys giveaway '32 Ford waiting to be unveiled on Saturday night. It was under a California Car Cover, of course.
Saturday morning, the sun was out and so were the cars and spectators. The Ohio State Fairgrounds were packed all day. There were some amazing cars on display.
1968 Dodge Van
1957 Pontiac Chieftain
1957 Buick Roadmaster
1949 Ford Sedan
1931 Ford Sedan
1965 Dodge D-100 Pickup
LaSalle Convertible
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Thank you to everyone at Goodguys for putting on another great event. Check back in the coming weeks for more photos and coverage of local events courtesy of California Car Cover.
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