MtHam ACR
Enthusiast
In Danville CA, last Thurs was an awesome event, thanks to Jack Cohen for managing the logistics and hosting.
The event was setup in advance of the national hot rod show this weekend at the Alameda County Fairgrounds. There was a great turnout with about 28 vipers showing, lots of gen1 RT10s, a good selection of genII cars, quite a few single year color cars; I counted 6 ACRs, seems like sort of a disproportionate number concentrated in this small area.
The rods were frickin-awesome, these are national level show cars. The police closed off the main street and they parked the hot rods and classics up and down both sides of the street for, I don't know, maybe a half a mile. I never saw all the cars there, but there were lots of cool rides: Street rods, 34 Fords and 41 coupes, lowered cars, totally ridiculous cars, trucks, stockers, race cars, you name it they were there. Many of these are absolute garage queens, built with no concern for expense. You have never seen so much shine from chrome and multi-hue paint in your life. This one guy had a 600+ CI supercharged 63 split window vette (actually a totally tube-frame) dragster that he fired-up, I mean just to look at it, it's probably a 6-7 sec car. Man, the whole place was just shaking when he goosed it. 3 or 4 different bands were playing, and the place was just wall-to-wall people, you couldn't even walk down the mainstreet.
The most amazing part were the throngs of ladies, incredible supply of young, pampered, perky gals, and and every one struttin-it with everything on display. Head on a swivel deal.
I was surprised to see Dennis Chiotes (sp?) in the Viper corral. He's the president of the NorCal Ferrari club, and drives a 99 ACR and an 94 RT, but no Ferraris. cool.
I missed the post-event dinner at Jacks but if it was it was anything like the rest of the event, I'm sure everyone had a good time. I look forward to this gig next year. Did anyone take some photos they can post? Tomer? Todd? Anyone?
The event was setup in advance of the national hot rod show this weekend at the Alameda County Fairgrounds. There was a great turnout with about 28 vipers showing, lots of gen1 RT10s, a good selection of genII cars, quite a few single year color cars; I counted 6 ACRs, seems like sort of a disproportionate number concentrated in this small area.
The rods were frickin-awesome, these are national level show cars. The police closed off the main street and they parked the hot rods and classics up and down both sides of the street for, I don't know, maybe a half a mile. I never saw all the cars there, but there were lots of cool rides: Street rods, 34 Fords and 41 coupes, lowered cars, totally ridiculous cars, trucks, stockers, race cars, you name it they were there. Many of these are absolute garage queens, built with no concern for expense. You have never seen so much shine from chrome and multi-hue paint in your life. This one guy had a 600+ CI supercharged 63 split window vette (actually a totally tube-frame) dragster that he fired-up, I mean just to look at it, it's probably a 6-7 sec car. Man, the whole place was just shaking when he goosed it. 3 or 4 different bands were playing, and the place was just wall-to-wall people, you couldn't even walk down the mainstreet.
The most amazing part were the throngs of ladies, incredible supply of young, pampered, perky gals, and and every one struttin-it with everything on display. Head on a swivel deal.
I was surprised to see Dennis Chiotes (sp?) in the Viper corral. He's the president of the NorCal Ferrari club, and drives a 99 ACR and an 94 RT, but no Ferraris. cool.
I missed the post-event dinner at Jacks but if it was it was anything like the rest of the event, I'm sure everyone had a good time. I look forward to this gig next year. Did anyone take some photos they can post? Tomer? Todd? Anyone?
