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.
The California Car Cover Crew spent a few days at the Goodguys Del Mar Nationals this past weekend. We always look forward to spending a few days in the San Diego area. The weather is always perfect and the Del Mar Fairgrounds always attracts a nice group of classic cars.
Nice Pontiac GTO
Clean 1932 Ford build by our friends at D&P Chevy and owned by one of our customers.
1947 Chrysler Town & Country Convertible
The Del Mar Fairgrounds has plenty of indoor and outdoor parking, plus room to cruise.
The cars were lined up to enter the car show every morning
A low 1965 Chevy pickup
On Saturday at the Del Mar Nationals there was specialty parking for Woodies in the Goodguys Good Wood area.
1963 Mercury Comet Wagon
1935 Buick Coupe
1960 Pontiac Wagon
On Sunday the Builder's Choice award winners were placed in a specialty parking area. Some of the finest cars on display at the show were here since they were selected by notable classic car builders.
The Chip Foose Imposter was at the show on Sunday
1938 Packard Coupe
The California Car Cover booth for the weekend.
It is always nice when one of your neighbors at the car show is a customer. Thanks to Barry's Speed Shop for using our covers!
A custom Lincoln sitting on the ground.
1959 Chevy El Camino
This custom VW Bus is powered by a Subaru WRX Sti engine.
Thank you to Goodguys for putting on another great event in Del Mar. We had a great time visiting with customers and catching up with friends. Keep an eye out for the California Car Cover Crew at upcoming Pomona Swap Meet and NSRA Bakersfield events.
Our 4th Annual European Car Show took place this past Saturday and all attendees would agree that this one was the best event yet. Year after year, the California Car Cover European Car Show gets bigger and better and for 2015 we had to find a new event venue in the area. Our friends at Rancho San Antonio offered to host the car show for us this year. The venue provided plenty of lawn parking, seating and shade for all of our attendees.
As usual, we partnered with Bernie Chacon of dubNation, who made sure that we had a large group of outstanding European automobiles. He made sure we had a number of featured vehicles, plus new vendors and event partners.
One of the featured vehicles on display at the California Car Cover European Car Show presented by dubNation.
Though the event mainly draws late model European cars, there was still a nice variety of pre-1990 vehicles, such as this Porsche.
Our friends from Fastivus came out to promote their upcoming event in June, plus showcase their Volkswagen e-Golf.
Custom EURO15 Artwork.
United Stance was a new partner this year that brought out a pair of clean and low vehicles.
Triplets.
T-Mobile in Northridge at the show.
The annual European Car Show could not happen without great partners. Whether they were contributing raffle prizes, promoting the show or exhibiting at the event, we had a number of great participants who made the day a success. As usual, our friends from Solo Werks and VW Oktoberfest were on hand to support the event. Big thanks to first time vendors T-Mobile Northridge, Pokal Wheels, Function and Form, Big-Euro, 1v1 Motorsports and United Stance for coming out to the show. Not only did these companies display and promote the show, but they donated awesome products to our raffles to raise money of Rancho San Antonio.
The Pokal Custom Wheels Booth.
Function and Form's booth
The raffle table drew a crowd all day long.
The main attraction at the European Car Show is the raffle table. Each year we sell raffle tickets for great prizes in order to raise money for a local charity. All ticket sales are donated to the designated organization, which this year was Rancho San Antonio. Since the 1940's RSA has provided housing and guidance to at-risk young men.
This year our raffle featured prizes from local restaurants, California Car Cover vendors and some of the premiere automotive aftermarket companies.
Just one of the many happy winners.
Custom wrapped Audi in the 1v1 Motorsports booth
Some VWs on the basketball court
We were able to raise over $1500 for Rancho San Antonio on Saturday. Thank you to everyone that made the event possible. We could not have done it without our partners dubNation and Solo Werks, both of whom have been part of the European Car Show since its first year. Thank you to all of the companies below who sponsored or contributed raffle prizes and door prizes to the event. We had great donations and support from local restaurants, such as Poquito Mas and The Habit, plus recognized automotive aftermarket companies like AccuAir, K&N Filters, Race Ramps and Lloyd Mats.
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