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October 18, 2014
Next Show - Mariposa
Today was a large (for our area) all brands car show. The show is put on by the Mariposa County Chamber of Commerce. It has been growing each year, and this year there were said to be over 250 cars in attendance.
First though yesterday night was a cruise through our town, with the parking downtown blocked off for us to park and show our cars.
The cruise started at our local NAPA store as they are a major sponsor of the show.
Here my Charger and my wife's '72 Dart Swinger are waiting at NAPA for time to cruise.
Had a fun time with the cruise and park thing tonight. Talked to a lot of people. There was a nice lady who is a regular on Overhaulin' there greeting people and taking pictures with people and their cars. Her name is Cherielynn Westrich, she is it turns out, a lifelong Mopar gal apparently and was VERY excited to get her picture taken with my Charger. Evidently she has a '68 Dart of her own - very cool!
My Charger downtown after the cruise.
Then today it was time for the show - here is my Charger in position.
There were tons of classes including a Mopar class which I knew was likely to have only a few cars (in truth there were six Mopars present including a truck out of over 250 cars!)
I chose to enter the Muscle Car class so as not to compete against my fellow Mopar owners. It worked out well as I managed to win third place in the class.
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October 11, 2014
Show time! - Madera
October 11th was time for the annual Fall Finale put on by the San Joaquin Valley Mopars Club in Madera, CA
We really like this show as it is usually great weather, and it is the closest all Mopar show to where I live.
There were not quite 90 Mopars there, which is seemed to be down from the previous few years.
I had the only '70 Charger at the show, there were 1 68, two '69's, and one '73 Chargers. We were all in a general "B-Body" class. There were numerous Road Runners, and a bunch more nice cars in my class.
I did not win anything, which is OK, although I was certainly ready to stride up to the award table if my name had been called.
Here is a picture of my Charger in position.
I finally got to use my diorama for the purpose I made it for. Seemed like it was a hit with the crowd.
A long time friend of ours does a lot of automotive photography and she and the owner of a really nice all numbers matching 1970 Plymouth Superbird were at the show as well, so we positioned our cars for some fun pictures together. Click here to see her photography page.
A very nice day for my Charger's first car show!
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