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.
Before heading to the beach on Labor Day we always spend Saturday morning up in Ventura for the annual Ventura Nationals car show. The car show has become a weekend event including a Friday night cruise and art show, plus Sunday reliability run and BBQ. We always look forward to cruising up the 101 on Saturday morning to check out some killer customs and hot rods.
A big draw for the past few years has been the Lost Angels Children's Project giveaway car. Each year, the Ventura Nationals promotes a custom car build and raffle to benefit the Lost Angels. The charity promotes art and automobile restoration to at-risk teens. This year's custom car was this Chevy Apache pickup that someone drove home on Saturday night.
Clean 1948 Chevrolet Convertible
A busy main drag at the Ventura County Fairgrounds
Not sure custom cars filled the fairgrounds. Plenty of custom built motorcycles were on display too.
A few of the past Lost Angels builds on display at the Ventura Nationals.
Thank you to everyone at the Ventura Nationals for hosting another fun event. We look forward to what's in store for 2018. Check back with California Car Cover in the coming weeks for more events this fall.
On Saturday, we took our annual trip up the 101 to attend the West Coast Kustoms Cruisin' Nationals. This show takes place on Memorial Day Weekend every year and attracts hundreds of amazing customs and classic to Santa Maria for a full weekend of activities.
The weekend kicks off with a cruise night in downtown Santa Maria on Friday night then is highlighted by a killer car show on Saturday and Sunday at the Santa Maria Fair Park. We always drive up on Saturday morning to check out the cars and see some friends from the central coast of California.
The Cruisin' Nationals always attracts some notable custom builds and customizers from all all over the West Coast. The host club, West Coast Kustoms, does an excellent job of making sure many recently debuted or restored customs are at the event.
Nice custom 1961 Chevrolet
The Cruisin' Nationals features plenty of grass parking, plus a few different convention spaces with specialty cars and vendors. The show is only open to 1961 and earlier automobiles, so there is always a nice mix of custom rods and restored classics at the show.
Custom paint on a 1952 Pontiac
Custom 1953 Chevrolet
1951 Chevrolet with subtle flames
There were even a few vintage Shasta trailers at the Cruisin
Nationals this year.
Awesome 1948 Chevrolet
One of the highlights each year is the annual pinstriper's demonstration and auction. Noted pinstripers create custom artwork that is auctioned off for charity.
Time to relax.
Thank you to everyone at the West Coast Kustoms Car Club for hosting another great event. The California Car Cover team always enjoys attending the show and look forward to heading back in 2018.
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