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 passed Saturday was a new event at California Car Cover. Our friends at the LA Aircooled Volkswagen Club were looking for a place to have an inaugural show and shine car show. Our facility was available this past weekend, so we let a group of classic VW owners take over our parking lot and lawn for a few hours to host the Seis De Mayo Car Show.
Classic Beetles and buses started arriving early at CCC well before the 8am roll in time. Attendees were greeted with goodie bags and donuts courtest of LA Air Cooled.
The south side parking lot was filled early in the morning with some classic VWs.
The team from Hot Rod LA was on hand doing live screen printing of the event tees and sweatshirts.
Richeeze Grilled Cheese Truck served up lunch all day to enthusiasts.
Official event tees screened by Hot Rod LA.
The front lawn was home to a few nicely restored, maintained and customized VW buses and Beetles.
LA Aircooled even had custom made trophies for a variety of categories at the show.
Thank you to Kurt and everyone at LA Aircooled for hosting a great event at California Car Cover. Our customers really enjoyed seeing the custom and restored VWs at our store. Hopefully, there will be some bigger and better events in the future together.
Official event sponsor of the 5th Annual European Car Show.
#EURO16 was another huge success for California Car Cover and dubNation. The event continues to grow each year thanks to so many great attendees, sponsors and volunteers. It was a record year for preregistered vehicles as over 600 people signed up to attend the show and we think that many people and more brought their cars to Rancho San Antonio on March 26th. Our European Car Show took over all of the available parking at the event, so thank you to everyone who supported the show.
Bernie and I did not have much time to take photos, but here are a few of our pics from the show.
The Annual European Car Show presented by California Car Cover & dubNation attracts all makes and models of European cars.
Big thanks to one of our sponsors, Wheelie Cool Videos, for putting together this great video of the cars and people at #EURO16.
Fortunately, many of our attendees took amazing photos from the event. Thank you for posting photos to Instagram and Twitter using #EURO16. There have been 100's of photos from the show posted there and on the European Car Show event page. Here are some of our favorite photos posted online. We have done our best to make sure everyone gets photo credit for the pics.
Photo Credit: Wayne Chou
Photo Credit: Wayne Chou
Photo Credit: Wayne Chou
Photo Credit: Jordan Rojero
Photo Credit: Justin Garcia
Photo Credit: Melissa Chaney
Photo Credit: Melissa Chaney
Photo Credit: Melissa Chaney
Photo Credit: Andrew Santiago
Photo Credit: Andrew Santiago
Photo Credit: Andrew Santiago
Photo Credit: Andrew Santiago
Photo Credit: Miguel Hernandez
Photo Credit: @creativematedesign
Photo Credit: @creativematedesign
Photo Credit: Tony Torres
Some of our award winners picked up a custom pinstriped beer boot courtesy of California Car Cover and a goodie bag from Wheel Whores for being selected as Top 10 winners.
Why does our Annual European Car Show keep growing? Great people, great cars and great sponsors. California Car Cover & dubNation reach out to the best names in the automotive aftermarket to support or donate products to raise money for our host, Rancho San Antonio. Our sponsor banners feature some marquee brands in the industry, such as Solowerks, AccuAir, Boden Autohaus, Wilwood Brakes, Wagner Tuning, Borla Exhaust and many others. This year we were able to raise $2600 to maintain the beautiful Rancho San Antonio campus.
EURO16 featured a few new vendors this year. Many of them supported the show by donating great prizes to the raffle. We donated all proceeds from the raffle to Rancho San Antonio. We had many new vendors this year including CSF Radiators, Rolloface and VW Audi Uber Wurx.
Our featured vendors at this year's event.
Some vendors of California Car Cover who could not attend the event sent donations to the show to raise money for Rancho San Antonio. Thank you to all of these great vendors who contributed door prizes and raffle items to the car show. Additionally, some great local restaurants and business donated gift cards and prize baskets to some lucky winners.
Raffle and door prize donors of #EURO16.
The 2016 event even featured official event t-shirts, posters and decals for the first time. Missed out? You can still pick up some of the last few in the California Car Cover eBay Store.
Thank you again to all of the great people, volunteers, donors, sponsors and vendors that made our annual European Car Show a huge success. Bernie and I definitely recognized that we cannot make this event happen without some amazing people.
Want to be part of the event in 2017? Stay connected with the car show at our official event page: eurocarshow.us
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