Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Want to get your car into movies, tv shows, or commercials? Me too!

http://homepage.mac.com/aconstantchange/PhotoAlbum1.html

is a website I read about in the April 2008 Musclecar Enthusiast magazine.
Marcelo Sotenburg owns Constant Change Pictue vehicles, his past clients have been (among others) Pepsi, Taco Bell, Nationwide Insurance, and AARP

And you can see what cars are in his gallery to work with, and #23 isn't a 72.... not even close
about 1/2 of the gallery are Camaros and Mustangs. So if you've got an AMX, GSX, Superbird, Talledega, Cyclone, Firebird Trans Am, Barracuda... etc etc you're probably going to get his attention... I'll be looking into this more later.

Car shows in San Diego to be added to my calendar

I still have more car shows to add to my calendar,

The Vintage T-bird Convention
The Porche Club Concours
Gillespie Field, El CajonMilitary Vehicles, Warbirds, and Collector cars
OverDrive Hot Rod News Annual Tech Fair & Chili Cook-off
Santee rat rod car show (wasn't held last year)
The Clairemont Neighborhood Park car show
Allied Gardens Cinco De Mayo car show
Army Navy Academy car show

Prototype AC Cobra




WOW, private collection of race cars gallery

http://www.socalsaac.org/Picasa%20Web%20Exports/Malloy%20tour/index.html

More updates to the Car show calendar

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/02/2008-san-diego-car-show-season.html#links for the full calendar: these are the updates...

April 26 Claremont Cruisers,
5pm First Night
4821 Clairemont Drive http://www.cncsd.org/

May 24 American Heritage Car Show,
Grape Day Park, Escondido, 9am
321 N Broadway
info 760-743-8207

And I checked with Dave and Busters Special Events, they aren't having the "Curves are for Cars" Scoliosis awareness raising car show back this year. ... I was looking forward to it, as it was the only Mission Valley car show last year, and an original Reo was there http://www.sdscoliosis.com/pb/wp_41aad059.html?0.0030737249206271855

Cool cars that are just hanging around in a San Diego neighborhood. I bet yours has some too. pt 2

Compare this to the brown work truck Ranchero I posted yesterday... yikes amount of work needed here to get this one into that brown ones condition.



Slowly being grown over, this yellow panel delivery is sitting kinda high, might be 4x4?



The patina on this Buick is so striking, I'm going to use it for my banner.


Color coded front bumper and rims makes for a good look here, shows someone went the extra mile on the looks of this, and the hood scoop on the 351 looks great

Rare to see an old Dodge truck, those headlight bezels though... I don't like them.

how this has escaped from being made into a lowrider, here in San Diego it's whole life... amazing. Still has original hubcaps!

I had never noticed a truck with 396 badges before!

The best looking tail design I've ever noticed on a Cadillac, just my opinion, and not a popular one I suppose, but this is one I've never noticed before. Sure beats the spare tire shaped trunk lids style.






Still in service at my closest municiple airport, a 60's Ford dualie fuel truck


How about the front mounted exhuast? Kinda cool to see functional design elements. The outside tire is smaller than the inside tire... I'd like to hear the explanation, must be due to the weight of the payload of fuel. The outside tires were worse than bald though, the steel belts were showing real badly on the hanger side.

Visible from Aero Drive, this is on the S.W. corner of Montgomery field hangers






Monday, March 3, 2008

the flyer for the annual January LaJolla car show

http://www.lajollabythesea.com/files/328.pdf

Updated car show calendar

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/02/2008-san-diego-car-show-season.html#links for the full calendar, here are the new additions:

March 11,
Only Yesterday http://www.oldautos.com/ is going to be the car club meeting location for the Pontiac club
"The SDPOCI’s Monthly Meeting:
Only Yesteryear Classic Autos
10343 Roselle St. San Diego
Tuesday 3/11/08 6:00 pm
Select here for Map to Only Yesteryear "

April 27
10:30 to 2:00
DMac's 2nd annual BBQ customer appreciation day http://members.cox.net/dmacauto/
1554 East Grand Ave. Suite: A, Escondido
(Corner of Grand Ave & Rose, behind the East Valley Home Depot)

D. MAC'S AUTOMOTIVE REPAIR
For ALL your Automotive & Classic Car Restoration Needs

http://www.sdpoci.com/calendar.htm

Want to know what your car will look like with different rims?

Thanks to the San Diego chapter of the Pontiac Oakland club
If you are buying new rims for your ride and are wondering what they will look like, go here.
NewstalgiaWheels.com
Go to the Wheel Visualization tab on the right.
From here you can choose your car, and then swap wheels of different manufacturers, styles, sizes and different tire size

via http://www.sdpoci.com/newsletter.htm

Looks like it's a daily driver.. .how cool!


the green tag in the windshield is from the big auto parts swapmeet at Qualcomm this past weekend.

Early 60's mopar restoration? No, 63 Impala

I happened to come back a week after taking this picture and me the owner... very cool ex-top fuel driver and team-mate co-owner in the 60's.

I have a soft spot for goofy AMC stuff, just so ridiculous a mascot it's cute

How did this design get approved as good enough to attract sales away from the competition?
PROUD of the engine size! It must be a MONSTER! It needs the wing! LOL ROFL...


Just waiting for the winter to be over?



my hat is off to the working guy who gets to drive and use his Ranchero for work


With the original black and yellow plates, a good stance, and my favorite Ford taillights

I get a different message than the one they were putting out there

If this were the result of a drunk driver, I would be all for placing this in public as a service to all who drink and drive in order that they might get a taxi next time. The military used to put one of these on a gate at a base all the time to help get the message out to young military members just how dangerous drunk driving is.
But this isn't a good thing. This is a pushy sob who knows that you are a bad driver, a speeder, and the next one to cause a wreck and injuries.

So if the word gets back to the Rancho Penasquitos residents who think we are all worse drivers than they are; that we are all public menaces to the calm, slow, mundane, mature Benz drivers of the world... if the word gets to them that I'm fed up with proselytizing ay-holes with slow old 4 doors... then this write up will completed its purpose.

It should have been evident to you, before getting rear ended, that your SLOW Piece of S... was always holding up traffic, annoying everybody who had things to get to but were unfortunate in being behind the pace car for the snail olympics, and generally aggravating the rest of the world who have a life that doesn't include placing a wreck on the city streets so as to preach your message.
Have a big hot steaming cup of shut the eff up, and don't drive so close behind the vehicle in front of you that when you got rear ended you were pushed into the back of the car of someone else and ruined the day of an innocent driver who wasn't ready to use an accident to shove a message in everyone else's face... they should have their rear ended car in front of your's to tell you not to follow so close.