2010 American Car Show

American Car Show has improved during past years, again it offered a pretty good selection of Hot Rods and Choppers plus the usual nightmare of car audio and tuning cars in the next hall etc.


































Kaitsu's Honda chopper was in good company.




Awesome Royal Endfield.


Awesome X2.




Pekka's 914 next to Juhani's rally Beetle.


:)


1962 Bel Air, one of my favourite cars 20 years ago.










This 'Vette brought a lot of memories from late 70's model kits, the supercharger, the wheels etc.


The current retro trend of bloated pony cars does nothing for me, I liked the Mustang, but Camaro or Challenger are bit too much.


Three letters "W", "T" and "F" come to my mind..


"Join the gang"? Maybe a little update would be in order.

2009 FHRA American Car Show

It said "built from shit" in the display card, I guess the old saying "you can't polish turd" has to be given some re-thinking :)










FVWA was displaying two Tomis with their sunroof-Splits. Tomi 'Heebah' Asikainen did pretty heroic effort in rebuilding his Split over the Winter in 50'/60's racing car theme.










The other Tomi had ditched the 17" Cup wheels to 911 spare wheels.


Skills-wise pretty awesome fake Cabriolet. Style-wise? Not floating my boat :)






I guess my favourite area in the Show this year was the FSRA's salt-flat racing themed display. The guys have read their 50's magazines :)


















Jussi Jyr�nk�'s new Pauter-equipped quarter-mile toy, all the way from Hawaii to M�nts�l�, Finland.








I remember one of my childhood best friend's dad buying an old hot rodded Volvo Duet for their daily car in early 80's, in the day when proper hot rods or 2 door V8s where scarce. I wonder if I had gotten into some other European cars than Volkswagen, how void that scene must feel, not that many other brands than Volkswagen or Porsche have such scene (number of people, parts/knowledge, magazines, events, web sites..) available. Just count the number various of Euro-Ford, Opel, Volvo, BMW what ever magazines in news-stands and compare the results with Volksworld, Ultra VW, K�fer&Co, VW Scene, VW Speed, Super VW etc.